My (dying?) coral pics

jeremy79 · 05-06-2007, 04:56 PM

I want to upload a pic of my coral I bought a week ago, how do I do that? They were green, but now brown and shriveled. I dont know why, I checked water over and over again, and everything is ok. I posted about this the other day, just wanted to show pics to see if anyone can identify my problem or relate to it. I moved them 3 days ago and bought a auto light timer so maybe that will help. Any help would be great!

dlaclo · 05-06-2007, 05:00 PM

what kind of coral is it? and then what other corals do u have in your tank? Any leathers as they tend to put off a toxin and could hurt other corals espeially sps sorry im rambling.

jeremy79 · 05-06-2007, 05:16 PM

Its a button polyups I believe. Its my first and only coral I have. I think I got the picture to work...

omard · 05-06-2007, 05:21 PM

Jeremy,

If your water params are OK...not to worry, these guys are pretty durable.

Maybe just getting aclimated to new environment.

Might not like the light environment they are in. Maybe too much/little.

Scott

jeremy79 · 05-06-2007, 05:34 PM

Its just weird I cant keep anything alive for a long time. The tank has been up for about 4 1/2 months. All my fish have died (I only has 4) but I am pretty sure I know why they died. My hermits die for no reason, except for the 2 I have now, but they dont walk around, they just sit in the same spot. Whatever thats about. My new snails have died already, only been here for 3-4 days. At least I think they are dead, they are on the bottom closed up. Gonna wait 1 more day to see if they pop out. I just get so frusterated w/ this sometimes. I think I just mess w/ the tank too much. Gonna leave it alone for a while.

SuperScro · 05-06-2007, 07:37 PM

Don't get discouaraged. It could be possible that when your first livestock died, whatever killed it is still in the tank and carries on to everything else you add. Wait a while, maybe a month or so and just keep doing water changes.

I believe I saw your parameters in a different post and heard they were good. What type of equipment are you running, what is your set-up like, what did you fill your tank with? This may be a little random, but what did you fill the enitre tank with in the beginning? Water typse wise.

However just wait a little while and keep doing some water changes. If nothing is in your tank right now as far as fish and corasl go, plan right now what you want to keep in the future.

jeremy79 · 05-06-2007, 08:15 PM

For water, all I have access to is tap water, so I use amequel + to rid of chlorine and such. And I use coralife salt. I have been adding ph buffer each water change (weekly changes) beacuse I am woried when I change the water the ph will drop. But next water change I am just adding the saltwater and no buffer to see what happens. I think that maybe that is what my problem is. As far as equipement, I have a basic bio wheel filter and compact flourecent lights

dlaclo · 05-06-2007, 08:30 PM

ok first i would stop using the tap water and buy some purified water from the grocery store. works just as well as having a ro unit in your home. also what is the water flow they are in it looks like it is heavy flow and they tend to like moderate to low flow better all though they will eventually aclimate to the heavy water flow conditions, on the things dieing the only thing i can think of is you are not acclimating your livestock correctly.