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Both my Hammer and Torch died this week.... Everything else in the tank is doing great. Anyone have any ideas what would cause these two to perish so quickly? All levels and temps are fine... |
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were they close to each other in the tank? |
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Nope, good 2 feet of distance between them with the hammer close to the sand bed and the torch up top closer to the surface. 200 gallon tank and they had co-existed for a good 4 months and we're doing great. Each had almost doubled in size and neither was in contact with another coral.
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did you add any air fresheners in your house? Or spray lysol in your house? That will kill those lps faster then anything |
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did thay start to tern brown and slimy. if thay did it is comen for lps's to git it it is a fungel infection. iv had it happen alot to mine |
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No air freshners anywhere around them.
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That and every other coral i have in the tank is doing great. Just these two and seemed strange that both perished at the same time. |
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It could be a form of STN. |
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what kind of fish do you have...? sounds like a hungry flame angel...
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polyp bailout in corals in general is caused by a sudden change to a physical parameter in the water... most often luminary shock. If you have recently upgraded the lights, replaced overdue old lamps, added carbon after a long absence or did a huge water change (either suddenly increases water clarity and light penetration)... then you might have your answer. Or... a sudden influx of a lot of freshwater from long overdue evap. top off can do it as well. If none of the above, I'll guess that you were feeding the coral food that was too large (bigger than brine shrimp or 1/4") or you just weren't feeding it enough at all (2-5 times weekly minimum... daily needed by some). Most corals can hang in for 12-18 months before polyp bailout before they starve to death. Do consider the above. If feeding is the issue... use anything but brine shrimp which is complete trash and a waste of money. Frozen adult brine kills fishes and corals by letting you believe that they are getting nutrition out of the lousy 4% protein therein (gold fish food has more nutrition!!!). Instead... look at frozen Mysis shrimp...69% protein. That's real food for zooplankton feeding fishes and corals. Best regards |
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yeah my fish like mysis like 100x better, i still balance it out though between a few other foods, still mind boggling how things like that can occur though, ive done lots of crazy things to my tank and its survived pretty much all of it. I occassionally spot feed my corals with phytochrom, is that sufficient for my corals? xenia, polyps, ricordea, hammer, some of those im leary about but im not 100% sure what to feed them |
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I've been feeding my tank a wide range of food and they've been doing increasingly well.
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holy cow, i didnt even know lps had mouths........ ok everyone has one of these but i ALWAYS forget the name, its either an sps or an lps, looks kind of like a moss covered flourescent green tree stump that grows, very common, what do i feed it? I see no mouths |
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If it's Green Star Polyps, then they are mostly photosynthetic. However, I believe they benefit from the phytofeast. |
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check your tank for fire worms....... they eat corals |
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