!HELP! Everything is sad!!!!!!

tiashecos · Mar 3, 2021

Help please! Noticed around 3-4 days ago that my Neon blue striped mushroom was shrivelling up which it has never done in the months that i have owned it. Checked all parameters and everything is great so i thought it was just having a moment. Woke up this morning to just about everything in the tank looking quite sick. The normally happy elegance is closed and swollen, my frogspawns, hammers, blastos etc havent Opened and look terrible. On the other hand my bubble and leather are loving life. Parameters, light and temp have all been the same for months. The only thing i have moved is a fungia, Everything is how it has been for atleast 5 months. Ive done water changes and changed some filter media+ Added carbon but everything is getting worse.

tiashecos · Mar 4, 2021

Hi this is to anyone who is still following how this went. After my last post i headed out to the local aquariums. After many discussions with local reefers i have come to the conclusion that the water was poisoned. By the time i had got home (not even 1 hour) ALL coral in the tank were looking worse then death. I have come to understand this was caused accidentally by a friend who was helping me clean for an inspection who took to the tank with a liberal amount of windex and car windscreen cleaner (apparently the windex didn’t work as well) or by a cedar type candle that he had lit and left next to the tank for about 5 hours, this was all done without me knowing. Apparently poisoning like these are quite common. Since all the coral were going bottom up so quickly i did a 90% water change and replaced all filter media and removed my fabric filter sock and replaced it with a mesh one. I also have way more carbon then necessary ( will be removed soon) but i have not added any types of chemicals or amino acids etc. since doing this a few of my corals are starting to look fluffy and health again and hopefully they are all on the mend. Thanks you everyone for your help and i will definitely remember all that everyone has told me. The mushroom being sick a few days earlier was simply a coincidence*