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05-17-2008, 01:36 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: rocklin
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well i woke up this morning to see that my 14 heads of hammer coral are all scruntched up, one of my frogspawn is completely dead ( 3 heads), and the other frogspawn (4 heads) is shrinked up as well, both the hammer and the living spawn looks like its on its way out, all my zoas look ok, the clam isnt open as it normally is, my house got 93 last night more a long time,
what killed everything?
do i take out the corals that are 4sure dead? | 
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05-17-2008, 01:39 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: rocklin
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com on, all i need some help b4 everything else dies! | |
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05-17-2008, 01:41 PM
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| | Montipora Capricornis
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: CT Age: 28
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That too bad, sorry to hear that. Sounds like you gotta get some kind of chiller going for the hot season, or you'll be losing more. _________  | |
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05-17-2008, 01:46 PM
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i stabilized the temp now with a fan, but the things arent opening up
is it just a coinisidence that all the hard corals, are not doing well? | |
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05-17-2008, 02:40 PM
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| | Aiptasia Anemone
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Weston, Florida Age: 28
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is that in your new 135? and where do you live that it gets 93 at night? I'm in SoFla and we're still in the mid 70's at night. _________ 75gal hex, 2-40w T12 48", odyssea 48" 4x65w PC's w/ lunars, 50lbs LR, 80lbs LS, gold banded maroon clown, dog faced puffer, juvenile blue angel, 2 dominoes, 1-4 stripe damsel, yellow watchman gobie, lawnmower blenny, mano, purple chromis, striped grouper, mexican turbo, astrea and red foot snails, striped, red and blue legged hermit crabs, coral banded shrimp, white and purple bubble coral(very little), red and green mushrooms, orange gorgonian, candycane  Tanks, No Thanks. We Free Dive! | |
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05-17-2008, 02:41 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Columbus, Indiana Age: 23
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Zoas will live through a nuclear blast, frogspawn and hammers are a little more touchy. You need to get your temps in check ASAP! If you keep the AC in that room on about 72 you shouldn't have as much of a problem. A couple good fans will help out greatly also. A chiller may be in order if you can't get the problem solved cheaper. They are expensive but if you gotta have one you gotta have one. If you are POSITIVE the corals are dead I would get them out. If not 100% positive then get your temps in check and see what they do over the next couple of days. Have you tested your params? If not you need to do some tests ASAP and make sure they all check out also. You have to find a permanent fix to the temp problem or your tank won't be an issue anymore. _________ 55 gallon slowly growing reef aquarium, 85 lbs. live rock, 2 1/2" sandbed, 1 False Percula Clown, 1 Sixline Wrasse, 1 Mandarin Goby, Tetratec PF500 filter, 2 110 watt URI Super Actinic VHO actinics, 2 250 watt metal halides with Reef Optix 2 reflectors powered by Blue Wave 3 ballast, born 1/3/08 My Tank Thread My Tank Video  | |
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05-17-2008, 07:48 PM
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| | Giant Squid
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Miami, FL Age: 39
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We need more details of your set up. Sorry to hear about your loss. Luna _________ 9YR OLD 90G/55g custom sump/refug Mag18 Aquac 180skimmer 692w MH AC jr,yel&kole tang,midas&convict blenny,B&G chromies,Blk/yel fin chromie blackcap,nemo,neon goby,6line; Blastomussa Merleti,Acan ,BUBBLE,Torch,LTA, Acropora(2) Moon, assort zoas, yel& G star polyps, P&B ricordia, montiporas, cup&candy corals, xenias,B/G mush,flower ane(2), cherry red mussa, dusters,cleaning crew..  | |
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05-17-2008, 09:33 PM
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| | Gnarly Old Codfish
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Silverdale, Washington Age: 59
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Do some significant back to back water changes asap.  _________ AG "125," AquaC EV 180, 30 gal sump, "SCWD", 80 lbs LR, CoralSeaLife "Moonlite" Hood, PFO 250W HQI Mini-Pendant (SPS HQI 14000k bulb)
12 Gallon NanoCube - 24w stock PC 50/50 light "...nothing good ever happens fast in a reef tank, only bad things happen fast..."
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05-17-2008, 10:03 PM
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| | Stylophora
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Louisville, KY ( derby town ) Age: 40
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i would not suggest water changes until we all know "Nemo" what your water params are,
theres ALOT of "scrunching up" going on in your tank it seems.
I may be going out on a limb here, but didint you just start this tank ?.
Example >
I wittnessed today "1" guy who was buying coral like MAD , two humoungous leathers .
which i had my eye on one, and the "dumb azz" bought like 800.00 bucks worth.
( now that being said ) this guy and his LFS store "owner" i thought that he would have stopped this guy, but the customer was buying like mad ( take note that the tank was like 2 months old ).
I was like dammit... stop... ( such nice specimens and your just selling to this dip****Z )
and it will all die.
Pizzed me OFF , i really had my eye one one of theose humouingous leathers, hell even the "customer" was asking me about what aiptasia was.
needless to say nemo... i love ya to death, you have to SLOW DOWN.
and lets find out the real problem/s and correct them .
Last edited by wildreef; 05-17-2008 at 10:09 PM.
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05-17-2008, 11:10 PM
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| | Vlamingii Tang
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: joliet,il Age: 41
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chillers and reef tanks are like peanut butter and jelly. back to back water changes do more harm than good. what are your parameters?
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