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04-01-2005, 04:43 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Iowa
Posts: 60
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HELP!!!! My brain coral
Came home from work today and there is a clear whitish slime all over my brain coral. Any ideas?
Thanks
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04-02-2005, 08:09 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Iowa
Posts: 60
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Please Help, now all my coral is looking very bad. The water tests fine. Could the bubble coral or frogspawn have let out poison?? |
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04-02-2005, 08:13 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Alaska
Posts: 1,119
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what test kit are you using? Is there any lfs near you can have double check it? A white cloud ledads me to thin amm. but Im no expert. Is there any missing livestock?
Any possibilty of outside contamination?
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04-02-2005, 08:20 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Iowa
Posts: 60
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we use the tetratest NO3. We just did a waterchange, about 25g, there in a 65g tank, No missing livestock, after the water change and cleaning husbands arm broke out in hives, don't no if its related or not. We got the water from our lfs.
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04-02-2005, 08:27 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 25,834
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if you only tested NO3,thats not enough you got to do alot of diff.Amonnia,nitrites,Phos,Calcium,SG,temp,Ph etc...
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04-02-2005, 08:29 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 25,834
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The white stuff is,It's trying to put a film to protect it.something wrong!need to do water changes!
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04-02-2005, 08:34 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Alaska
Posts: 1,119
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skin irritations? makes me think nitrates/amm. could you post the specs/readings??.... tank age ect. hopin some more help will jump in here...
good call with a WC may even want to get ready for another.
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04-02-2005, 08:42 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Iowa
Posts: 60
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I'm going to test for ph and calcuim right now, just got a tester for ph let ya know results, tank is over a year old, everything was doing great until the water change.
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04-02-2005, 09:32 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Iowa
Posts: 60
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Tested Ph its at 7.8, calcium at 500 (WOW)
I have my 90g tank set up, looks like it may be ready for livestock, checked the ph on that, its 8.0, calcuim is 420
crabs and snails are living in it, little bugs are around the glass, (i think thats a good thing)
should I try moving corals into the 90?
got a pic of the 90, don't know how to post it yet though. Any ideas on that?
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04-02-2005, 10:00 PM
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Reefer in training
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ridgewood, NJ
Posts: 1,463
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PH sounds low, try to bring it up to over 8.1
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