Anyone ever seen anything like this before (sps death)?

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

AI yi yi.

My biggest worry about this sort of thing, beyond the chemical warfare is if it could be a pathogen of some kind (baterial, viral, or protozoan). The real worry with that is that it's 1) impossible to verify or test for, 2) essentially impossible to treat for. It's sort of like a greenhouse with bugs and all you can do is hope they die out on their own or that the stock becomes resistent to it.

I hope that this is an isolated incident. Sorry, I realize I've said nothing helpful ... just that I sympathize (and empathize) and wish you good luck!!

that was pretty much my worry as well, is it transmissible and what is it going to do to the rest of the tank? Guess there is nothing I can do but run more carbon and do a waterchange and hope for the best

[Lance]

Holy Crap Christy you've had a run of bad luck lately!
IMO 20% weekly water changes and carbon changes every month are plenty adequate. Kent carbon is one of the better carbons as well. I don't think this is the problem. Something must have changed in the tank to trigger the chemical warfare. Have you moved any corals lately or even fragged some. Maybe that set off WWIII?

[daniella3d]

It could be. It remind me of the brown jelly disease.

I had a duncan that was wounded when fragged and was going that way. I removed it and put 3% peroxide directly on the affected area as it was only on the bony structure and not yet on the polyp and it recovered 100%. I would not do that on sps though, that would be the end of them.

Best way would be to check a sample with a 200x or 400x microscope. protozoare are easy to see and when I had this I could actualy see the protozoares eating the zooxanthellea of my coral! There was thousands of them.

Originally Posted by Delphinus

AI yi yi.

My biggest worry about this sort of thing, beyond the chemical warfare is if it could be a pathogen of some kind (baterial, viral, or protozoan). The real worry with that is that it's 1) impossible to verify or test for, 2) essentially impossible to treat for. It's sort of like a greenhouse with bugs and all you can do is hope they die out on their own or that the stock becomes resistent to it.

I hope that this is an isolated incident. Sorry, I realize I've said nothing helpful ... just that I sympathize (and empathize) and wish you good luck!!