spiraling
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Well I really blew it this weekend. Luckily the rsm display tank is fine. I have a frag tank to grow out corals. I used egg crate, which sucks, and was full of bubble algae in the all the little squares. So I thought I would just remove it, and put a bunch of rock pieces on the bottom. Sounds simple - right?
Well as I was moving the corals I noticed red flat worms on several of them. So I dipped the corals, first in revive and then in flatworm exit. I took out the egg crate too. I also cleaned all the equipment. I think i stirred up a bunch of crud off the bottom under the existing rocks, as the tank is cloudy again like when it had a bacteria bloom earlier this year.
Anyway, I killed all my sps, about 7 pieces. the rest of the coral is unhappy but living. I'm not really sure what happened, but I had a small ammonia spike this morning. I'm in process of water changes and had some Prime on hand so used that. I don't know if the dipping caused the coral to die then spike the ammonia, or something else caused the spike that killed them. so sad.
Well as I was moving the corals I noticed red flat worms on several of them. So I dipped the corals, first in revive and then in flatworm exit. I took out the egg crate too. I also cleaned all the equipment. I think i stirred up a bunch of crud off the bottom under the existing rocks, as the tank is cloudy again like when it had a bacteria bloom earlier this year.
Anyway, I killed all my sps, about 7 pieces. the rest of the coral is unhappy but living. I'm not really sure what happened, but I had a small ammonia spike this morning. I'm in process of water changes and had some Prime on hand so used that. I don't know if the dipping caused the coral to die then spike the ammonia, or something else caused the spike that killed them. so sad.