Ugh, What a Christmas.

[laminatedgorilla]

Imagine my surprise this morning when I looked at my little 12 gallon tank to see corals that are melting off their skeletons or bleached out all together. For certain the two different birdsnests varieties, frogspawn, hollywood stunner, watermelon chalice and one other (I forgot the name of) are all dead. The two different candy canes, green star polyps, fat head dendro and green bubble tip anemone are barely hanging in there. Hopefully I won't lose them as well.

I tested for what I could, and nothing seemed out of balance, no dead fish or shrimp.

pH - 8.2
Kh ~ 10
nitrate - 0
nitrate - 0
ammonia - 0
salinity - 1.025
temp - 80

Obviously I was naughtier than I thought this year. I guess I'll just start drinking and watching "the Christmas Story", that is the true meaning of Christmas after all.

I hope everyone else has a better Christmas.

 

[glxtrix]

Sorry to hear that. If you find yourself in the ATL area, I have some birdsnest and 2 types candy canes you're welcome to have.

 

[darth reefer]

Oh man, that's a terrible way to start Christmas. Sorry to hear about your misfortune.

 

[KrisDeitz]

What test kit

 

[jamescook]

Oh ho ho how I know what you are feeling. I have 2 systems that are crashing right now. Loosing lots of coral for Christmas.

 

[rdnelson]

Man I hate hear this.

 

[nickg]

Did Santa Spike your systems with a foreign chemical??

Copper maybe

 

[stickx911]

i have some tiny birdsnest (nothing fancy) you can have.

 

[ralph atl]

just just some major water changes and do 50% or so weekly forever.....

I can hook you up with a few nice things...

 

[ripped tide]

Dang guys. I hope everything stabilizes.

 

[laminatedgorilla]

The bubble tip is toast and the dendro is really showing some skeleton. I doubt it's copper because I don't add anything to the tank. I do weekly 25% water changes with Red Sea coral pro salt. The only other stuff that goes into the tank is ocean caviar and occasional phyto/micro blast. I also spot feed the bubble tip, dendro and duncan with mysis or bbs once a week.

Will an anemone shrimp do okay without an anemone? If not I will give it to someone fairly close that could provide it a proper home, maybe someone who has an anemone their clowns won't host.

Thanks for all the support. I appreciate all the kind offers, but I will definitely need to wait a while before risking anything else.

Thanks,
Chris

 

[cedzaquaddiction]

Sorry to hear this, Man... Hang in there. I'm sure your rebuild will be stunning!!!

 

[jeffmuse]

Sorry to hear that man, nothing sucks more than a tank crash. It has happened to me before, and the best advice that I can give is to learn from it and not give up!

I am not too far from you... if you need any help with anything, just let me know. I have plenty of corals that I can frag for you if you are ever in the area.