Help Corals melting!!!

[Beano1169]

hey everyone at the moment I am in crisis mode. My pulsating xenia looks as though it has melted away the base is left but the arms look shrunken and like melted together. My Frogspawn is receeding towards the base almost exposing skeleton, and my rodachtuis mushroom is curved inward and I believe showing ouff its sweepers? little white strings all over (happening to harry and rainbow mushrooms too). My ric looks odd as well. What can I do, did a 20% water change (I use seachem aquavitro salinity salt) last night sg perfect match. Dosed 2-3ml of 3-ion fluval sea (first time I have used, could this be it? it upps mag, cal, stront). Just did about a 10% 5 mins ago

parameters as of now

8.0-8.2 PH (low but normal)
0 ppm NH4
0 ppm No2
0 ppm No3
DKH 10-11
Sg 1.025

havent tested cal fora bit but shouldnt be an issue usually around 420-445. and no tests for PO4, Strontium, or magnesium.

please any comments will help significantly

[Craigdillman]

how does it look now? i would do a water change if you think that threw it out.. also if you have a QT tank now is the time to fire it up

[asylumdown]

Is this some thing that's happened all of a sudden or has it been a slow progression?


How old is the tank, how large, what equipment, what are your general maintenance practices, what do you dose, what media are you using if any, how many fish/what kind?

Do you live in a place with air conditioning? It was smoking hot here in Calgary for the past several days, did your tank get too hot?

It's hard to diagnose a problem based on those symptoms alone more information will help get a better picture of what's going wrong.

[Kit with Cat]

Did you check temperature?

[mrhasan]

Since "xenia" is melting, I presume its because your water is too clean.

[11purewater]

Originally Posted by mrhasan

Since "xenia" is melting, I presume its because your water is too clean.

+1 ,Xenia should be called pulsing Chaeto,Great nutrient sink.