mini tank crash....palythoa toxin the cause???

[daniella3d]

I know someone who's blue hippe ate all of his paly and zoanthids...that fish is still alive and kicking so no, I seriously doubt that it could be the case. YOu could have introduced some vibrio bacterias that are anoying your coral. It's usualy what cause the brown jelly and then the protozoares take theire share.

I have lots of paly and zoanthids in my nano and when I toutch them and frag them they produce alot of slime and that's only 20 gallons and all my sps in there are always fine.

Especialy your zoanthids should not be bothered by the palytoxine, that is if they do carry that toxine wich is far from sure, or any slime from the palythoas. I have zoanthids and palythoas growing side by side and they are ok with that.

Originally Posted by reefwars

well im rotted now for sure last night i added a huge colony of palys and around 400+ heads and this morning when i woke up i had discovered a mini crash in my tank.my coral banded shrimp is dead, all sps completely bleached white and my elegance and open brain are closed up tight as can be and inflated in areas.while putting the palys in my tank last night there was some sliming as they were ****ed to be handled.all fish are fine and water tests show nothing no amonia and ph perfect.snails and crabs didnt seem to mind either nor did my feather dusters and anemones in fact my rbta has never looked so good.......

ive done a large water change and just changed out the carbon and already my elegance is starting to open up so i have it fixed up but now im curious on the potency of the palythoa toxin on inverts and lps?????


rotted i tell ya i loved my coral banded shrimp and ive been having such good luck with this elegance so far