My reef is dying

[NateHanson]

Carbon, Carbon, Carbon. If you think it's from a smouldering fire, I'd put my money on Carbon and waterchanges.

 

[jschiavi]

I could remove some of the rock from my 20L and put it in a curing tub and hold any smaller colonies you have Armando. Give me a call, im not too far away, and I still owe you for that xenia frag for my girlfriends tank.

781 354 6826.

 

[Aquadiva]

OMG, Armando....I wish there was something I could do !!! I'm pulling for you. I wish I could say more. Good luck.

 

[NateHanson]

I've got plenty of room for corals Armando. I'm free for travel tomorrow morning. 617-416-one968

 

[ScottM]

armando, just got home.
want the already made water or the rodi units?
let me know.

 

[Armando]

thank you everyone i just finished transferring the non encrusted corals to my other tank but the SPSs are pretty much dead. the sea hare came out and is fine so it wasn't an anemone x sea hare accident. it's likely it was the heater short circuit. i'll do a last water change now and go to bed let it run its course too tired for anything else right now.

 

[clamm]

Sorry to hear that Armando...its quite I haul, but I have about 80G of water made up...your welcome to it...I wish you could take me up on it but im like an hr away or so.

 

[Greg Hiller]

I'm thinking it might be an overdose of copper. A little bit of current can allow a lot of copper to go into solution.

 

[NateHanson]

Any way to chelate that Greg, if that's the case? Armando, do you have a Copper test kit?

 

[ScottM]

Armando,
man this really sucks.
looks like a rough week for alot of us....
my company has layoffs tomorrow. i may have all day to help you.
either way, I have a bunch of frags for you. I also have an ocean clear canister filter packed with carbon if you want to use it.
best of luck.

 

[Armando]

don't have copper test kit. from the way the thing was blowing sparks under the water there was probably a substantial current.

 

[Armando]

thank you Scott good luck tomorrow. i am running a small hot magnum and i also put a large amount of carbon in a filter sock on the overflow return. skimmer has already filled three times.

 

[MarkO]

ions and copper not good. Ughhh. Hope you have good luck salvaging all you can.

 

[~Flighty~]

I have the 75 g refugium with 175w MH that can be used to hold anything large even if there is only a small chance of saving it.

 

[Greg Hiller]

I believe the carbon should take out the copper. Water changes should work as well. It should not be that hard to make the tank safe again if this was the problem. It's probably too late for the corals that were poisoned though.

I still don't know for certain that copper was the problem. Armando, might be interesting if you saved any of the original water to see if that was the problem.

 

[Armando]

Greg I'll save some of the water (not original but after two water changes now).

Not the before / after pic I was looking for!

 

[~Flighty~]

Did the tissue slough off or could it still be there just bleached?

 

[MarkO]

Greg, do you think fragging into another tank would help?

 

[me2003]

Poly filter will take out copper to a lower level.
It will change color to indicate copper.
Here is a thread on reef central Chemistry forum

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=508399&highlight=poly+filter+copper

 

[FishyIdea]

use tap water for SW?

It looks like the calvary made it in time.

I would think in a situation like that, use RO water to mix up SW and speed up water changes. In fact, if it was a bad scene, use tap to mix up SW. You are risking an algae bloom vs imminent death.

Good luck Armando!