help! what am I doing wrong

[slagman]

help! what am I doing wrong. I just got a shipment of acro and 3 of the four bleashed out and died. My saltinity is 1.026, alk is 9.2 nitrate is 1.5 and phosphate .02. when I got the corals I aclimate for temperature for 40 min. I place then on tray and glue them to my plugs and put them on bottom of tank. they where doing good until when lights went off I walk by tank and notices the where bleaching next morning the were dead only on survived, My light is a radion gen 4 at 60% with acclimation on so less. I acclimate has world wide coral says just temp acclimate and put in tank is this wrong.?

 

[Paul B]

How long has that tank been running?

 

[edsbeaker]

Hi, so sorry about the loss. If everything else in the tank is OK, it seems to me that something happened in the acclimation process.

Did you happen to treat them with any dips to get rid of pests?
Was there a difference in the salinity from the shipping water and yours?

 

[slagman]

Hi, so sorry about the loss. If everything else in the tank is OK, it seems to me that something happened in the acclimation process.

Did you happen to treat them with any dips to get rid of pests?
Was there a difference in the salinity from the shipping water and yours?

I did not check I dont dip because I did loose a soft tissue acro. I dont know if it was me ore two little fish dip I was listening to world wide coral about not aclimating the coral. Is there a good way to acclimate cause alot of the big timers claim the corals are already stress just temperature adjust, the tank is close to a year old. I removed my protein skimmer cause i cant get my phosphate and nitrated up

 

[edsbeaker]

Dipping is pretty safe for most corals. I think much more damage can happen to your tank by not dipping.

In your case, I really am clueless as to what may have happened for these corals to bleach out in one night. Whether something happened to them during the shipping process or while in your tank, I don’t know.

I’m hoping someone else can help you out with this. It’s just strange that everything else is doing fine.

 

[slagman]

Dipping is pretty safe for most corals. I think much more damage can happen to your tank by not dipping.

In your case, I really am clueless as to what may have happened for these corals to bleach out in one night. Whether something happened to them during the shipping process or while in your tank, I don’t know.

I’m hoping someone else can help you out with this. It’s just strange that everything else is doing fine.

what coral dip is good.

 

[KrisReef]

Freshly shipped corals that were subjected to high or low temperatures are great candidates for bleaching, ime.

Temp acclimation can be problemsome if you put the bags floating under a hot (MH) bulb where they heat up in the bags instead of "acclimate" they bake, and that can cause things like this, too.

 

[Freenow54]

help! what am I doing wrong. I just got a shipment of acro and 3 of the four bleashed out and died. My saltinity is 1.026, alk is 9.2 nitrate is 1.5 and phosphate .02. when I got the corals I aclimate for temperature for 40 min. I place then on tray and glue them to my plugs and put them on bottom of tank. they where doing good until when lights went off I walk by tank and notices the where bleaching next morning the were dead only on survived, My light is a radion gen 4 at 60% with acclimation on so less. I acclimate has world wide coral says just temp acclimate and put in tank is this wrong.?

No mention of Par or Water flow. It is an exact science not even asking for Parameters which to me are less important at this Juncture