advice needed --> advice taken -->update July 27

[Delphinus]

+1 on the last 2 or 3 posts. Sorry to hear of your troubles .. moving tanks sucks big time..

[Navarchus]

Well, sometimes we underestimate the strength and durabeiility of corals.
Keep in mind that on some reefs during low tide coral are exposed to nothing but air for a long period of time.

Once I helped a friend moving his corals to a new tank, the new tank was located 6 hours away by driving. He had there some huge monti's and acro's the biggest monti was 60 cm diameter, the biggest stag was 56 cm high!!!
We had no choice but delivering them in big garbage bags with out any water (only some for humidity). Guess what….zero fatalities!

I put my finger on destruction of bacteria colonies and death of small critters in the LR, causing sharp rise in ammonia.

The best way to deal with that problem imo would be water changes and using some good quality bacteria supplements…. Beside that keep in low on feeding and calibrate your skimmer for wet foaming (skimming)

Good luck ( If it didn’t kill you it will strengthen you)

[fishoholic]

So sorry to hear, that really sucks. I hope some corals make it.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Navarchus

Well, sometimes we underestimate the strength and durabeiility of corals.
Keep in mind that on some reefs during low tide coral are exposed to nothing but air for a long period of time.

Once I helped a friend moving his corals to a new tank, the new tank was located 6 hours away by driving. He had there some huge monti's and acro's the biggest monti was 60 cm diameter, the biggest stag was 56 cm high!!!
We had no choice but delivering them in big garbage bags with out any water (only some for humidity). Guess what….zero fatalities!

I put my finger on destruction of bacteria colonies and death of small critters in the LR, causing sharp rise in ammonia.

The best way to deal with that problem imo would be water changes and using some good quality bacteria supplements…. Beside that keep in low on feeding and calibrate your skimmer for wet foaming (skimming)

Good luck ( If it didn’t kill you it will strengthen you)

actually now that I think of it, most of the rock was in a cooler so the temps weren't quite as low as the rubbermaid totes that the corals were in.

this am, I still can't see in the tank, I have enough water to do a decent water change and at least clean out the sump and get it going. I'll make more water after that and I think I'll just do back to back waterchanges for the next few days.

thanks for all the sugggestions guys, I'm on it!!

[Lance]

All my fingers are crossed for you Christy. Hopefully things come around.

[christyf5]

ok so I've done a 35 gal waterchange. Pretty much just emptied out the sump, shopvac-ed it and refilled it. Then did a 15gal waterchange on the main tank with what was left. Got the sump running and skimmer hooked up (some freaking disgusting stuff in there!!), carbon going. Can't find the filter floss but thats ongoing, its in one of these boxes around here somewhere. The water is much clearer and I can see most everything now.

So far I've lost a milli colony, handful of other smaller colonies and a couple frags as well as a clam . So far all of my stuff on the frag racks seem to be ok. I've gotta get in there with some clippers and have a go at my big blue stag which is about half gone, also lost half my blue tenuis. I think I've given enough pieces away to find that one again. As for the others I couldn't recognize them and sadly, my tank is so full I couldn't tell you what they were anyways.

I think I may be on the road to recovery.

I'm saying that in a whisper in case the tank hears and goes to ****

[Snaz]

Perhaps stirring up all the detritus lowered your pH dramatically and then the die-off dropped it even further? I have been reading a bit about Ocean Acidification http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification and SPS really do not like lowered pH, 8.1 pH seems to be the limit.

[christyf5]

finished off my first bucket of salt last night and cracked open the second this am I've got these waterchanges down to a science now. Unfortunately, though the water is clearer, the tissue necrosis hasn't slowed much

[Doug]

I dont know what else to say Christy.


perhaps

Sadly, seems to be happening more these days, with very experienced aquarists.

Myself included but thats another story.

[Ian]

Sorry to hear about this..fingers and toes crossed...good luck