Help...fish great but corals are dying!

[exposit]

I have had my 55 gallon reef tank up an running for about 10 months now and haven't added anything over the past two months. It was complete with corals (which are now dying) and 5 small fish (2 scooter blennies, 1 blue tang, 1 dottyback, and 1 clown fish). The first coral I lost was a very healthy leather, then a torch, and now a plate coral. The sypmtoms are simply a very FAST growing mucousy slim that quickly engulfs the entire coral. I do need some advice! My water perimeters are very low levels of ammonia (.05), ph (8.2), alk (1.1), cal (400), sg (1.024), and temp (77 to 81 during a normal day). Help!
Thanks, Christian

 

[beth]

Christian: I'm going to move your post over to the reef forum where I think your problem will get more attention.
This forum is pretty much for fish disease.
See you over there...

 

[q]

I have no idea but you should quarintine as many corals as you can. May be you can save some then.
What are your water paramaters ect.
Buy a book quick if you don't get any answers that help. Try bornmans it will probably cover it but I am not sure.
Sorry I can't help but at least this will keep the post up.
Post your Email. I have something to send you.
[ November 05, 2001: Message edited by: Plato ]

 

[burnnspy]

Your water qualkity is poor. Ammonia too high and Alkalinity was way to low to sustain healthy corals so they became infected with brown jelly due to a lack of immune system response.
BurnNSpy

 

[dhe420]

As burn said your alk is WAY to low. You need to raise that, and do a 35% water change. You should have NO ammonia at all, ever. Try and get that straight before adding anything else.

 

[kris walker]

Do you have a log book? If so, what were your chem levels 2 months ago? Do you notice any change in chem levels? If you didn't have an ammonia reading 2 months ago, something is going on that you don't know about since some of your colony's bacteria do not simply go on strike. Log books are very good to have.
It seems like a high temperature fluctuation every day. But I don't exactly know how high is too high.
Also, I don't know what kind of lights you have, but if you have VHO, the spectrum output might have shifted considerably. But I don't know if that would really affect your all your corals that much.
sam

 

[caymanlovers]

Ammonia spike may have come from the dieing corals. Also, no mention of lighting. What do you have?

 

[big tuna]

something is decaying in your aquarium. i'd take out the corals with slim on them and cut my loses, and do a water change. hope this helps!