Gorgonian died, tank in trouble?

[_cpate3_]

I have a biocube with only a pair of clownfish and some soft corals. The other day I got a large gorgonian colony and it must not have acclimated well because it fully disintegrated into the water causing the other corals to close up and the water to be cloudy. I changed 50% of the water and got the rest of the coral out of the tank, but 24 hours later the water is still cloudy, corals are still closed, and the clownfish won’t eat. What should I do in this scenario I’m at a loss?

 

[ThisIsTheWay]

Hopefully someone with more experience can chime in, but I’d probably start with doing at least one more large water change and running carbon.

 

[Uncle99]

I have a biocube with only a pair of clownfish and some soft corals. The other day I got a large gorgonian colony and it must not have acclimated well because it fully disintegrated into the water causing the other corals to close up and the water to be cloudy. I changed 50% of the water and got the rest of the coral out of the tank, but 24 hours later the water is still cloudy, corals are still closed, and the clownfish won’t eat. What should I do in this scenario I’m at a loss?

Gorgonians is a large family.
Do you know which you bought?
Any pics?

 

[_cpate3_]

I have a biocube with only a pair of clownfish and some soft corals. The other day I got a large gorgonian colony and it must not have acclimated well because it fully disintegrated into the water causing the other corals to close up and the water to be cloudy. I changed 50% of the water and got the rest of the coral out of the tank, but 24 hours later the water is still cloudy, corals are still closed, and the clownfish won’t eat. What should I do in this scenario I’m at a loss?

Gorgonians is a large family.
Do you know which you bought?
Any pics?

Yes I believe it was a Tracey Morgan. Or at least that’s what the guy I got it from told me

 

[_cpate3_]

I have a biocube with only a pair of clownfish and some soft corals. The other day I got a large gorgonian colony and it must not have acclimated well because it fully disintegrated into the water causing the other corals to close up and the water to be cloudy. I changed 50% of the water and got the rest of the coral out of the tank, but 24 hours later the water is still cloudy, corals are still closed, and the clownfish won’t eat. What should I do in this scenario I’m at a loss?

Gorgonians is a large family.
Do you know which you bought?
Any pics?

This was the first day,

And this was a few hours later

 

[Uncle99]

Do you know what the differences in parameters were bag versus display?

Common gorg, not overly demanding but loves flow and feeds from the water column.

That’s super fast tissue peel.

 

[_cpate3_]

Do you know what the differences in parameters were bag versus display?

Common gorg, not overly demanding but loves flow and feeds from the water column.

That’s super fast tissue peel.

I do not, I acclimated it over 30-40ish minutes, and then dipped it and put it in

 

[Fish Fan]

Acclimated by just floating it, or did you do like a drip acclimation here? What did you dip it in?

 

[_cpate3_]

Acclimated by just floating it, or did you do like a drip acclimation here? What did you dip it in?

Not a float, I added a cup of water every 10min for 40ish minutes kinda doing the “double the water, take out half” method. Dipped it in KoralMD

 

[Uncle99]

Since you already have corals, and they were fine until this new addition, we can rule out tank water.

Can you run activated carbon the try and clean that up back to normal?

Another 25% then let it settle out.

How long….a day? It did that in a day?

Did you see it fall off, or just when you looked?

 

[_cpate3_]

Since you already have corals, and they were fine until this new addition, we can rule out tank water.

Can you run activated carbon the try and clean that up back to normal?

Another 25% then let it settle out.

How long….a day? It did that in a day?

Did you see it fall off, or just when you looked?

I acclimated them, left for the night, and when I woke up it was fully gone

 

[Uncle99]

I acclimated them, left for the night, and when I woke up it was fully gone

He looks more like what I expect if someone “had some lunch”

It’s a really forgiving coral so I am surprised at the super rapid tissue loss.

Who lives with your corals?

 

[_cpate3_]

I acclimated them, left for the night, and when I woke up it was fully gone

He looks more like what I expect if someone “had some lunch”

Who lives with your corals?

Just a pair of clownfish and that is it

 

[Uncle99]

Just a pair of clownfish and that is it

Could they have attempted to use it as a “host” during the night time? Or that it infringed their territory ?

They can be wicked!

 

[bluemon]

This can happen if that coral was collected straight from the ocean.

The ones from the ocean, which a lot of these are (from Florida), sometimes can be very finicky and will have large die offs like this especially in new tanks.

You can probably save it if you massive cut back the dead tissue and skeleton; it can grow back from the base or the nub.

Aquacultured ones are pretty hardy.