So I would like some input because I fairly certain I experienced chemical warfare from my toadstool leather coral.
A few months ago I had posted that I thought the toadstool was being stung by some rhodactis mushrooms. The leather wasn't opening much more than a few minutes a day, and it seemed like it was bending its body away from the mushrooms, etc.. well the result of that was me removing the toadstool from the rock that it was attached to. At the time I didn't have a bandsaw so my only option was to slice the toadstool near the base and reattach it to another rock. Looking back during that time I was also seeing a decline in the health of some of the LPS corals in the tank.
Well after removing the toadstool from the rock, the toadstool went into a very long shedding period... like typically when it sheds its a 2-3 day process... this shed it went into took a total of 2-3 weeks. During that time I saw a severe decline in almost all of my LPS Corals. Most of the Acans would be closed up and loosing color and some were even starting to loose tissue around the edges. A Favia. colony took a severe beating and lost nearly 75% of all tissue and was certain it was going to die. All my mushrooms were shrinking and releasing some sort of white filaments. 90% of the corals were extremely unhappy/dying. The only ones that seemed not to be bothered were the Duncans and the Bubble tip anemones.
The day the Favia took a massive turn, I decided that clearly something was severely polluting the tank. Nothing was off with my parameters, I even ended up buying a whole bunch of new test kits to make sure I wasn't getting false readings. Everything parameter wise seemed fine, so I decided the best course of action was to do a large water change. I did roughly a 70% water change and dipped all coral in a Iodine solution incase it was some sort of bacteria infection.
The day after everything seemed fine, and the corals were not loosing any more flesh.
Only thing I could possibly think, is that the toadstool was releasing some sort of toxin in the water column.. is there any way I can get my water tested for any of those toxins?
what do you think?
A few months ago I had posted that I thought the toadstool was being stung by some rhodactis mushrooms. The leather wasn't opening much more than a few minutes a day, and it seemed like it was bending its body away from the mushrooms, etc.. well the result of that was me removing the toadstool from the rock that it was attached to. At the time I didn't have a bandsaw so my only option was to slice the toadstool near the base and reattach it to another rock. Looking back during that time I was also seeing a decline in the health of some of the LPS corals in the tank.
Well after removing the toadstool from the rock, the toadstool went into a very long shedding period... like typically when it sheds its a 2-3 day process... this shed it went into took a total of 2-3 weeks. During that time I saw a severe decline in almost all of my LPS Corals. Most of the Acans would be closed up and loosing color and some were even starting to loose tissue around the edges. A Favia. colony took a severe beating and lost nearly 75% of all tissue and was certain it was going to die. All my mushrooms were shrinking and releasing some sort of white filaments. 90% of the corals were extremely unhappy/dying. The only ones that seemed not to be bothered were the Duncans and the Bubble tip anemones.
The day the Favia took a massive turn, I decided that clearly something was severely polluting the tank. Nothing was off with my parameters, I even ended up buying a whole bunch of new test kits to make sure I wasn't getting false readings. Everything parameter wise seemed fine, so I decided the best course of action was to do a large water change. I did roughly a 70% water change and dipped all coral in a Iodine solution incase it was some sort of bacteria infection.
The day after everything seemed fine, and the corals were not loosing any more flesh.
Only thing I could possibly think, is that the toadstool was releasing some sort of toxin in the water column.. is there any way I can get my water tested for any of those toxins?
what do you think?
