Does carbon bleach your corals ? (Kent carbon recall)

[Casey8]

Damn it, I even didn't have a small amount of that bad carbon
Thanks Daniella, I will reduce the lights for a few weeks. What is a polyfilter ? I have never heard of it before. Anyway, I'll call LFS and find out about it. I have more than 1/3 of completely white bleached corals in my tank. I still don't know what to do with them yet. Throw them away or wait to see if they come back ? Hmmmm ... good luck ? The rest of the corals are totally faded, only me the owner can recognize what were the original colors before, even my husband totally got lost has no clue. I am really &^%$# off with the Kent product. I will never buy anything that is made from this company again.

[christyf5]

http://oceanaquatics.com/store/produ...7/Poly-Filter/


Ah Casey, stay in this hobby enough and you'll find you will get screwed often enough and by all the major brands, enough that you circle right back around to where you started

[Casey8]

Originally Posted by christyf5

http://oceanaquatics.com/store/produ...7/Poly-Filter/


Ah Casey, stay in this hobby enough and you'll find you will get screwed often enough and by all the major brands, enough that you circle right back around to where you started

Hahaha ... I believe what you say. I was swearing that I would never touch any Coralife brands in my life again, then after a few years I bought a UV with that brand name again.
Thanks for the link.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Casey8

Hahaha ... I believe what you say. I was swearing that I would never touch any Coralife brands in my life again, then after a few years I bought a UV with that brand name again.
Thanks for the link.

Yeah after a few years it doesn't sting as much. Funny, I just put a polyfilter on my tank the other day hoping it would help. Also switched to the ROX 0.8 carbon from BRS. My water is shiny clean and hopefully the filter is doing its work. I didn't lose any corals so I'm thinking its not the carbon, my problems likely come from another source (of which I will never figure out but will likely be fixed in the midst of all the other "fixes" I do at the same time).

[daniella3d]

Do you still have the box of carbon and the invoice from the store you bought it?

They asked me for the bar code on the label and a proof of purchase and the address of the store where I bought it. They also asked for a sample of the carbon, but that did not seem to be a requirement though. Since I have plenty left I will send it.

Polyfilter is a filter media that change color as it absorb different contaminant. I will buy it today and put it in my tank.

I did another water change and now things are starting to look a bit better. My shaggy acropora is starting to return to normal.

However so far I lost all my beautiful blue sponges and all my beautiful and rare true pink digitatas. I have no idea whey they died and the other digitatas, orange and purple, did not die at all. Murphey's law dictate that the rarest and most beautiful are going to be those dying huh?

All my xenia have melted away...wierd...that was growing like weeds in my aquarium for 2 years and I kept pruning it and giving it away to friend and even throwing it in the garbage because I had too much of it. now I have none left. The little bit that was remaining finaly melted as well. very wierd.

The company is very nice though. I have good hope that if it is the carbon responsible, they will compensate people for their loss...i surely hope so.

I think if you have any coral left that is bleached but still have polyps and tissue, you should not throw them away. I once had an acropora bleach completely and even part if it died and it make a 100%, even 120% recovery in a month or two, so unless your coral have no more flesh and polyp, keep them and wait to see if they come back.

I had to throw away my monti cap with blue rim because it had no flesh any longer and algae was starting to cover it, a good sign that it was dead. Same with my pink digitata, it became all covered with brown stuff (not brown jelly though) sign that it was dead.

Originally Posted by Casey8

Damn it, I even didn't have a small amount of that bad carbon
Thanks Daniella, I will reduce the lights for a few weeks. What is a polyfilter ? I have never heard of it before. Anyway, I'll call LFS and find out about it. I have more than 1/3 of completely white bleached corals in my tank. I still don't know what to do with them yet. Throw them away or wait to see if they come back ? Hmmmm ... good luck ? The rest of the corals are totally faded, only me the owner can recognize what were the original colors before, even my husband totally got lost has no clue. I am really &^%$# off with the Kent product. I will never buy anything that is made from this company again.

[Casey8]

No, I didn't keep the container because I returned it and exchanged another brand. I still have the receipt though, the bar code must be somewhere in there.

[daniella3d]

if you returned it at the store, they probably returned it to the company. I would call the store and ask them what they did with it and if they still have it, ask for a sample of it to send to Kent.

In any case, you should contact Kent Marine and tell them your story.

Originally Posted by Casey8

No, I didn't keep the container because I returned it and exchanged another brand. I still have the receipt though, the bar code must be somewhere in there.

[Casey8]

Thanks Daniella, I will let my husband deal with them.

[Casey8]

Hey Daniella, I was about to get the receipt, pictures of the bleached corals, and my husband is ready to go back to LFS (where we returned the carbon) to get a little sample and the bar code tomorrow ... we were ready to make a complain to the Kent company tomorrow ... and guess what, my halides were turned off for the day and now the T5s have been turned on for 2 hours ... then all of a sudden when I passed by, I see all my bleached corals have slight color on them. I stopped and looked closely, I see the polyps are starting to open here and there. All the faded corals are gettting more colors under the T5s tonight. I couldn't believe what I have seen. I am so excited ! They are coming back to life tonight, Daniella ! You were right, good thing I didn't throw them away. Will see what they will look like under the metal halides tomorrow.

[Myka]

Casey, I would suggest you keep the halides turned off until the color comes back. The color in the corals protects them from the damaging effect of UV rays. Putting halide light over badly bleached corals could kill them.