For those who want the quick version: moved tank, fish died, corals bleaching/not opening/dying. All params fine. Inverts doing fine. Help?
Long version: I'm currently staring at a tank of dying corals. I just moved houses yesterday, and moved the contents of my 20 gallon over to another new 20 gallon tank. I woke up this morning and found my clownfish dead unfortunately. I naturally proceeded to check my parameters and everything was fine accept ammonia, it was at about 1.0ppm. I assumed that combined with the stress of moving was the cause of death of my clown, which sucks. At this time none of my corals were open (frogspawn, hammer, zoas, kenya tree, gsp, mushrooms, etc). I did a 50% water change and tested my parameters again, and got ammonia down to 0ppm. I checked on my tank later and it looks like my frogspawn, hammers, and duncans are starting to deteriorate
The tops of the heads appear to be bleaching and the retracted green tentacles seem to be turning into goo and floating away. My polyps still aren't open on my zoas and my xenia is just laying there limp. What do I do? Any suggestions? Ammonia is still at 0ppm, but I did another water change just in case. I don't to lose all of my corals, but I'm at a loss of what the cause could be. Also, my arrow crab and hermits seem to be just fine, foraging around and eating all day. I cut the lights on the tank for now to attempt to eliminate anymore stress. I've moved tanks before but have never had this happen, all advice is appreciated!
Long version: I'm currently staring at a tank of dying corals. I just moved houses yesterday, and moved the contents of my 20 gallon over to another new 20 gallon tank. I woke up this morning and found my clownfish dead unfortunately. I naturally proceeded to check my parameters and everything was fine accept ammonia, it was at about 1.0ppm. I assumed that combined with the stress of moving was the cause of death of my clown, which sucks. At this time none of my corals were open (frogspawn, hammer, zoas, kenya tree, gsp, mushrooms, etc). I did a 50% water change and tested my parameters again, and got ammonia down to 0ppm. I checked on my tank later and it looks like my frogspawn, hammers, and duncans are starting to deteriorate
The tops of the heads appear to be bleaching and the retracted green tentacles seem to be turning into goo and floating away. My polyps still aren't open on my zoas and my xenia is just laying there limp. What do I do? Any suggestions? Ammonia is still at 0ppm, but I did another water change just in case. I don't to lose all of my corals, but I'm at a loss of what the cause could be. Also, my arrow crab and hermits seem to be just fine, foraging around and eating all day. I cut the lights on the tank for now to attempt to eliminate anymore stress. I've moved tanks before but have never had this happen, all advice is appreciated!
