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

[reefwars]

its def weird i just got home and my lawnmower is dead, my zoas are still closed shut,my elegance is shriveled up to nothing and same with my brain one feather duster is now out but the other is still closed.its weird because the only change that happened was the palys i put in last night and its a huge colony prob the size of a small football and there was alot of slime like it was everywhere.im gonna do a small water change here now again and inspect on some things even further i never had a whole lot of time this morning. my sps is bleached completely white.all corals were absolutely fine when i went to bed as it was late when i got the palys and all this happened in like 8hrs sps had awesome colour , my feather dusters and zoas are always open throughout the night and usually my brain has his feeders out when i wake up and once under the light for a bit the brain and elegance get quite big but none of that was the case thios morning plus i lost my shrimp and my lawnmower blenny.my clown and chromis are swimming around just fine and my rbta which has been struggling since its new in my tank is now open and looks awesome with perfect buklbs on its arms.......rotted i am.

im gonna do a full blown water test but i doubt ill see anything there and another small water change and im gonna hold off on adding anything to the tank like food or dosings untill i can figure out what happend.


dont suppose the zombies got to it lol??