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Where do I start? This version of my tank has been running for 3 years after a move and a size upgrade. Two days ago I went to frag some coral and one frag rack had a leptastrea, a cyphastrea, a ricordea, and a mystery coral growing out of the leptastrea (I had a great name for it when I was ready to release to the hobby) all jelly on me. The ricordea had split recently and it jellied, but it was a white jelly. The other corals were 100% covered in 1-2 mm of brown jelly, with white skeleton (some recessed colored polyps too) underneath. Here is the photo of the frag rack last week. I know, it's a powder keg:
I didn't snap a photo once it was jellied unfortunately. I just went into go-mode. Here is the rack after the carnage:
I pulled most of the leptastrea skeleton off. I tried to save the mystery coral (and the chalice it spread to also) with Seachem Reef Dip to no avail. My last ditch effort was scrubbing the mystery coral with a toothbrush under tap water. Far-fetched, but I saw one closed thread on another forum (where people are more toxic) that mentioned it. I had nothing to lose from trying I figured. The zoas there weren't happy anyway, but they're extra unhappy since I did a peroxide bath yesterday (can't be too careful).
Now 1 branch of my pink milli has RTN'd and I fear it will continue. It's moving slower though. I should be able to frag it tomorrow if needed, but I'm very worried.
The cyano occurred around the same time. Chicken or the egg? Here's a current full tank shot:
Chemistry
dKH: 9.5
Calcium: 400
Magnesium: 1260
Phosphate: Undetectable with API kit
NO3: <5ish (API kit)
NO2: 0
NH3: 0
Salinity: 33 ppt
New additions
No livestock added for 4 months. The day before this occurred, I opened a new bottle of AquaVitro Fuel (exp 2022) and added it. I haven't used this product for about 5 years. My current boss developed much of the AquaVitro line though, and they do not think it could be the product. Although it contains Chlorella, it "does not contain any live organisms".
So jeez, what do I do? Apparently saving things with an iodine dip isn't possible, so I assume I just treat it like RTN? Frag and hope for the best? I see a little bit of red slime creeping up at the junction of my psammacora and mystic sunset monti, but I'd be happy if just the Monti dies. It's a plague in my tank. A tank treatment would be amazing, but I'm sure I would have found it on the internet by now if there was one. Maybe just some chemiclean for the cyano? I really don't like to add any sort of antimicrobial product to my tank in general, but it would be worth saving the milli.
Another thing to note: I have been struggling with brown sympodium, but I haven't done much to it lately. I've heard they can poison a tank though, and some of them are wrapped-up in the cyano below the milli. Could this have contributed?
I do have a compound microscope in the closet. Let me know if you think some microscopy will help.
Thank you all in advance!
I didn't snap a photo once it was jellied unfortunately. I just went into go-mode. Here is the rack after the carnage:
I pulled most of the leptastrea skeleton off. I tried to save the mystery coral (and the chalice it spread to also) with Seachem Reef Dip to no avail. My last ditch effort was scrubbing the mystery coral with a toothbrush under tap water. Far-fetched, but I saw one closed thread on another forum (where people are more toxic) that mentioned it. I had nothing to lose from trying I figured. The zoas there weren't happy anyway, but they're extra unhappy since I did a peroxide bath yesterday (can't be too careful).
Now 1 branch of my pink milli has RTN'd and I fear it will continue. It's moving slower though. I should be able to frag it tomorrow if needed, but I'm very worried.
The cyano occurred around the same time. Chicken or the egg? Here's a current full tank shot:
Chemistry
dKH: 9.5
Calcium: 400
Magnesium: 1260
Phosphate: Undetectable with API kit
NO3: <5ish (API kit)
NO2: 0
NH3: 0
Salinity: 33 ppt
New additions
No livestock added for 4 months. The day before this occurred, I opened a new bottle of AquaVitro Fuel (exp 2022) and added it. I haven't used this product for about 5 years. My current boss developed much of the AquaVitro line though, and they do not think it could be the product. Although it contains Chlorella, it "does not contain any live organisms".
So jeez, what do I do? Apparently saving things with an iodine dip isn't possible, so I assume I just treat it like RTN? Frag and hope for the best? I see a little bit of red slime creeping up at the junction of my psammacora and mystic sunset monti, but I'd be happy if just the Monti dies. It's a plague in my tank. A tank treatment would be amazing, but I'm sure I would have found it on the internet by now if there was one. Maybe just some chemiclean for the cyano? I really don't like to add any sort of antimicrobial product to my tank in general, but it would be worth saving the milli.
Another thing to note: I have been struggling with brown sympodium, but I haven't done much to it lately. I've heard they can poison a tank though, and some of them are wrapped-up in the cyano below the milli. Could this have contributed?
I do have a compound microscope in the closet. Let me know if you think some microscopy will help.
Thank you all in advance!