Colt Coral Crumbling

Pathman · 01-31-2002, 09:37 PM

Hello All!

This is my first post so don't flame me too bad. Anyhow, to make a long story short, I came home tonight and my colt coral has broken up in to four pieces. It wasn't big to begin with, 15 cm. at most. It came off its small base rock as well. It also has small pieces flaking off the larger frags. I have placed the pieces higher up in the water column, and added a carbon filter. Frags look viable, polyps open, but it's pretty slimy. Other corals look very unhappy.

Tank Parameters:

55 Gal 7" DSB 100W PC with 50W actinic regular fluorescent
SG 1.023 Skimmer built in to Amiracle sump
Ca 450 ppm
No3 <5
Ammonia and NO2 0
pH 8.4

Any ideas? Leave it to me to kill a colt coral!

Thanks,
R

organicreefer · 02-01-2002, 01:31 AM

hi pathman (we need some kind of big "welcome to reefland" banner lol)

what do you mean youre other corals dont look happy?what is the temp?alk?how long is the tank set up?more details please its hard to say anything with the info you posted.............im sure others would like to help to ,but the symbtoms/conditions you describe are a bit vague.

Pathman · 02-01-2002, 11:35 AM

Sorry,

Corals look unhappy -- Button, yellow polyps contracted, open brain markedly shrunken. Mushrooms look fine. Temp 78 degrees F. Alk, I don't know, I will pick up a kit today to find out. Tank has been up for about 4 months. 35 kg. live rock. I go to work early in the a.m. so I don't know how the colt looked today. It simply broke up in to 4 pieces but it didn't look dead.

Sorry, vague is my middle name. After a few posts I hope to be more accurate. Let me know what else I may have missed. If I can get some photos this afternoon I'll try and post them

Thanks Again,
R

organicreefer · 02-02-2002, 12:25 AM

at this point ,well i would suspect ....sabotage

j/k
do you have fish?how are they?
any chance youre tank has somehow been "poisoned"...

if things are still closed up i would do a water change right away...do you use carbon?

Pathman · 02-02-2002, 04:15 PM

Sabotage! I knew it. My mother-in-law is here from out of town! She did it I bet. Anyway, it's now a sewer-coral. It seemed to go down hill. I wanted to get it out before it killed off my other corals and fish. Now that it's gone everyone looks happy, polyps extended and back to normal. I guess we'll never know what happened.

Thanks for the help. Now I need to go deal with mother-in-law!

Rob

01-31-2002, 09:37 PM	#1
Pathman Just Moved In Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 5	Colt Coral Crumbling Hello All! This is my first post so don't flame me too bad. Anyhow, to make a long story short, I came home tonight and my colt coral has broken up in to four pieces. It wasn't big to begin with, 15 cm. at most. It came off its small base rock as well. It also has small pieces flaking off the larger frags. I have placed the pieces higher up in the water column, and added a carbon filter. Frags look viable, polyps open, but it's pretty slimy. Other corals look very unhappy. Tank Parameters: 55 Gal 7" DSB 100W PC with 50W actinic regular fluorescent SG 1.023 Skimmer built in to Amiracle sump Ca 450 ppm No3 <5 Ammonia and NO2 0 pH 8.4 Any ideas? Leave it to me to kill a colt coral! Thanks, R __________________ Yeah, I know, no flowerpot corals. :>)

02-01-2002, 11:35 AM	#3
Pathman Just Moved In Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 5	Sorry, Corals look unhappy -- Button, yellow polyps contracted, open brain markedly shrunken. Mushrooms look fine. Temp 78 degrees F. Alk, I don't know, I will pick up a kit today to find out. Tank has been up for about 4 months. 35 kg. live rock. I go to work early in the a.m. so I don't know how the colt looked today. It simply broke up in to 4 pieces but it didn't look dead. Sorry, vague is my middle name. After a few posts I hope to be more accurate. Let me know what else I may have missed. If I can get some photos this afternoon I'll try and post them Thanks Again, R __________________ Yeah, I know, no flowerpot corals. :>)

02-02-2002, 04:15 PM	#5
Pathman Just Moved In Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 5	Sabotage! I knew it. My mother-in-law is here from out of town! She did it I bet. Anyway, it's now a sewer-coral. It seemed to go down hill. I wanted to get it out before it killed off my other corals and fish. Now that it's gone everyone looks happy, polyps extended and back to normal. I guess we'll never know what happened. Thanks for the help. Now I need to go deal with mother-in-law! Rob __________________ Yeah, I know, no flowerpot corals. :>)

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02-01-2002, 01:31 AM	#2
organicreefer Governor Join Date: May 2001 Location: Northern CA Posts: 2,171	hi pathman (we need some kind of big "welcome to reefland" banner lol) what do you mean youre other corals dont look happy?what is the temp?alk?how long is the tank set up?more details please its hard to say anything with the info you posted.............im sure others would like to help to ,but the symbtoms/conditions you describe are a bit vague.

02-02-2002, 12:25 AM	#4
organicreefer Governor Join Date: May 2001 Location: Northern CA Posts: 2,171	at this point ,well i would suspect ....sabotage j/k do you have fish?how are they? any chance youre tank has somehow been "poisoned"... if things are still closed up i would do a water change right away...do you use carbon?

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