waahhhhh :(

[lilduud]

all my coralline is dying... the spots on the back of my tank will have little bits of orange in them and then the orange slowly moves around the spot trailing grey behind it... CLOD or what? how can i stop it? ps didnt know where to put this haha so move it

 

[Bifferwine]

Has any of it been exposed to air? I'll move it to algae.

 

[lilduud]

no none has been exposed to air unless maybe a bubble or two but its like a clear trail of grey following the orange...

 

[Bifferwine]

Please list the animals in your tank, fish and inverts.

 

[Hiker4twenty]

How's your calcium levels?

 

[lilduud]

false perc black clown, small sixline, mandarin dragonet are the only fish... the inverts are an emerald crab my derasa clam and my mexican turbo... ive been lengthening my time between water changes... its been 13 days since a 2 gallon change but the params are all zero.. today is the first day that nitrate is detectable but its much less than 5... its just darker than 0. im going to do one tomorrow regardless...

 

[lilduud]

my calcium was between 350 and 450 like two or three days ago when itested but what i dont get is that it was 450 two weeks ago.

 

[lilduud]

with all my corals wouldnt my calc be depleted wayyy faster?

 

[Bifferwine]

No. Unless you have a lot of SPS corals, the corals you have don't use up a lot of calcium. LPS and softies don't deplete it very quickly.

 

[lilduud]

i have the large hunk of birdnest as well as three acros, a clam and all the other coral.. i just thought in a 10 gallon the calc would be gone in no time

 

[lilduud]

BUT WHATS WRONG WITH MY CORALLINE! hah

 

[wontonflip]

I thought you already figured out what it was in this thread:

https://www.livingreefs.com/uhhh-whats-fluorescent-orange-my-tank-t27468.html


I see a reference to this:

Coraline leathal orange disease - Reef-Solutions

Or is this problem something else? :shock:

 

[lilduud]

hah no that must be different. that must have been orange coralline because i have pieces of that still in shaded spots... this is covering my purple coralline spots on the back glass and slowly working overthem leaving grey behind.. the other stuff is still there and orange and didnt turn grey... its like after 12-24 hours of the orange being there it turns to dead coralline.

 

[bjohanson1234]

SOunds like the new thing is CLOD fro mthe description. Not sure how to stop it though.

 

[lilduud]

totally lame.

 

[sen5241b]

WHAT IS YOUR ALKALINITY?? Coralline sucks carbonates (alk) out of the water! Test for it and dose!

 

[lilduud]

ok ill do that asap i need to go get an alk test then mehh

 

[lilduud]

as of this morning here are my levels; fourteen days from last water change.
Ammonia: 0 ppm
Nitrite: 0 ppm
Nitrate: 0 ppm
pH: 8.2
Calcium: aprox 400 ppm

 

[Bifferwine]

Get alkalinity and magnesium test kits too. If one of those are off, then that can impact coralline growth.

 

[lilduud]

but its not the rate of growth.... the coralline i have now is dying.
i will also get the magnesium and alk tests but it seems like a disease or bacteria rather than a deficiency.