Sick Montipora

[Sean minor]

Ok but if a story, the gate valve on my overflow broke so ( emergency ) I went all over town trying to find a fix, I finally found a brass gate valve. My plan was to use it till UPS brought the new plastic one. Got up the next morning and the tank was cloudy looking, got the valve off did huge water changes, lost a large Xenia and now my Red Monti looks ok but no polyps in over two months. Everything else is fine, Thanks for any ideas

 

[Sean minor]

Sorry bit of a story

 

[tektite]

How long ago was it? Did you run any polyfilters to remove copper traces?

 

[Sean minor]

Was six weeks ago, I did three 50% water changes over the span of a week and put two large carbon reactors off my FO tank. Some of the Xenia's are coming back seeing little ones pop up here and there

 

[Railcar79]

you never ever want to use any metal on a marine tank, brass is actually copper and zinc. and we know what copper do to salt.

 

[Sean minor]

Yup I got that, had to do something, to late I know I messed up. Been keeping marine fish for 20+ years and new to the reef side of it, never done anything that dumb, funny cause copper is a good thing in my fish tank.

 

[FL_Reefer]

You may want to try a copper sponge of some sort for a while. The problem with copper is that it is just not in your water, it gets absorbed into the live rock and substrate so it is prob still leaching out. Once it's in there it's not easy to get out. May want to get a low range copper test kit to see if it's present in the system.

 

[Sean minor]

If the Monti was gone would it turn white?

 

[FL_Reefer]

Yes it would, depends on what it looks like though. You have any pics. I wouldn't pull it out quite yet though, may come back. You never know but a pic would help

 

[Sean minor]

not real great pic

 

[tektite]

That's still alive, growing too.

 

[Sean minor]

Just no polyps, wasn't sure what that ment

 

[FL_Reefer]

Def still alive

 

[Sean minor]

Ok thanks

 

[Sean minor]

Tested for copper it's zero

 

[FL_Reefer]

Well that's good, there must be something else going on

 

[EW_Fish]

Monti is fine. I would leave it. No polyps just means its not happy and something is wrong. When you start to see algae growing on it normaly means its dead.

 

[Sean minor]

I reckon I need to figure out what's wrong, all test good, I have two MP40's going on the tank this weekend, maybe the extra flow will help