help my acans are dying

[kitten0304]

help my favites, acans, chalices, are dying please

well like it says i have been loosing my acans slowly over the last few weeks i posted in the zoa thread because i thought it might be from vc but the consensus is it is not, i was dosing aa, iron, potassium iodide, but i haven't put any of those things in for a few weeks now and i have done a 10 gallon wc every 5 days for a few weeks and their still dying. I feed them once a week directly in the evening after the lights go out. Part of the head just stops coming out and them in a few days its dead. I have them in 3 separate tanks and all 3 have a little difference in conditions like sa and temp. All my test results come out good in all the tanks certainly not enough of anything to hurt them. Im lost and need help i have attached pics for you Thank you for your help.
the first 2 are what they used to look like

and now this is what they look like

I want to rip my hair out :cry::sad::confused::too_sad:

 

[JuniorMC8704]

pink skeletons are really not good. get any that have that on them OUT!

Its some kind of infection, and will spread.

you can do an iodine dip and try to save them, but you must take action.

 

[kitten0304]

omg im getting the dip right now great :(

 

[JuniorMC8704]

if its large colony that has only some portion of it pink...cut well beyond the infection, and remove the infected piece from the system.

Move any non infected acans AWAY from the problem pieces.

 

[kitten0304]

ok working on that now i'll be doing this for a while had a kinda acan garden going, can i dip in amino's to? will that help and if so what are the measurements

 

[Saltysteele]

oh, yeah, bad, bad, bad

did anyone ever figure out if this was bacterial, or what this is?

 

[JuniorMC8704]

i think adding aminos maybe a few hours later or something might be ok, but ive never done that, so i cant really say.

 

[kitten0304]

ok dipped everyone hate to be so needy but how often should i dip them? Thank you for your help it seems to be working they are looking better already.

 

[kitten0304]

please more help im dying here

ok well initially they all started looking better all pieces have been removed or cut well beyond the pink and while i see no more pink they are all dying again i have been dipping every 3 to 4 days with iodine and keeping them in a hospital tank, but now others back in 2 main displays are starting to come down with it too, it has affected any kind of brain, cyphastera, acan, chalice so far. PLEASE i need more help with this, i am to the point of ripping my hair out loosing all my corals.

 

[Hypertek99]

ok dipped everyone hate to be so needy but how often should i dip them? Thank you for your help it seems to be working they are looking better already.

You should always dip before putting any corals in you tank!!! If the dip don't work try interceptor!! It will nuke your inverts though.

 

[Hypertek99]

I would try interceptor now!! If other LPS are starting to die. What are your water parameters? Also check your salanity

 

[kitten0304]

i do i promise these had been in my system for several months, i dont know what could have brought this funk i and my tank are now suffering from, thank you hypertek

 

[kitten0304]

water pram look good sa is 1.025, what does the interceptor kill bacteria or bugs??

 

[kitten0304]

okay i removed the rest of the pieces that seem to be affected to my hospital tank and they have pink skeleton areas on is a trachaphillia can i or should i bother to cut it?? what is this pink skeleton stuff?? is this even fixable or should i just let them rip. :((

 

[dream coral]

This might sound crazy but what we have done with the same problem and the pink or purple outbreak is dip using water from your tank about 1/2 a gallon of water and three caps of melafix and it has worked great for us. Goodluck has anyones else tried this?

 

[Hypertek99]

Pink skeleton is savable. My friend gave me an acan with pink skeleton and it was receeding badly. I nursed it back to health for like 6 months no problem. Interceptor will kill all bugs.

 

[ZOABOY]

Omg im sorry.

 

[Hypertek99]

Yes it's very frustrating!! I know how you feel. Don't give up!!

 

[RaysReef]

How do these pink skeleton come about!?!

 

[kitten0304]

i have read on this for a few hours now "sogonerg" and i think the consensus is its bacterial but no one really has found out why it comes??? i will get the interceptor tomorrow and start that. Hypertek can i do dips in meliafix or iodine at the same time ?? at this piont im willing to try anything. next on the list of reasearch is can i cut my trach he has lost 1/4 of his flesh in 2 days and has a pink spot.... shees please tell me one day all i wll have to do is enjoy my tank...lol