NOOO *pics added*

Since I had a long conversation with Mark months ago I haven't had a single thing go wrong with my tank.. I pretty much pulled out the phosban, dropped water changes to once a month and let things be and WOW things were going amazing!

Sooo, did a 10 gallon water change this weekend (r/o di and reef crystals) and within 24 hours all of my softies are dead... zoos, leather, xenia and my Kenya trees are following suit.  UUUUUUGUHG  I hadn't done a water change in 5 weeks and figured it was due.

My hard corals are all doing great, anemone are good, fish are good, no inverts are dying.. just softies.  I can't win and honestly, I'm about to throw in the towel.  You can read my blog, I've had nothing but bad luck with a tank.  I thought things would be smooth sailing after months of serenity and it all comes crashing down.

No responses necessary, I'm venting, not to mention, I don't think it can be fixed


Edited by Kynneke - November 19 2008 at 8:26am

Start running some carbon in there to help clear out all the stuff the dying things are letting out.  And if you need some more softies let me know and I can help you out.

I've heard and read that some tanks seem to develop an "immunity" to certain types of corals. 

I wonder if something irritated them. 

No worries- I bet you could find all of the softies you lost pretty easily.  I'm sure there are people with frags of kenya tree, and zoanthids aren't hard to come by.  Hope this helps- you're not alone in feeling the "tank blues".  I just had a rabbitfish nearly decimate all my zoanthids.  I swear he was the easiest fish to catch ever, but it might of been my overall distaste for him that was fueling my ability to catch him. 

that is weird. Usually when something goes wrong the sps are the first to kick the bucket and quick.

That freakin' sucks!  I'm sorry.

If you need some more softies - let me know.  I know I have pink pulsing sinularia that I could frag.

You sure they all died? Could they just be closed up due to some irratation? I can not imagine them all dying in that little of time with a simple water change, unless like mentioned above, some foriegn chemical was in the salt or the ro water. You might want to look at those two. Have you used salt out of that batch before?

They aren't really pouting, more like turning into grey stone =/  Nothing's been put new into my tank (fish, coral or invert) for almost 3 months.  I have used this salt before and did a water change on the 29 gallon with the same water, course, no corals are in that tank.

Ok, the upload is working this morning.

My GSP is usually fuller than this, only about half are opening.



Kenya's are dying off



Leather looks the worst, the bottom is decaying and the tips are folding in on themselves.



These used to be about 4 times this size and a much lighter pink.



I have a weird brown growth on my rics and paly's though they aren't showing signs of a problem.



These Xenia have hard trunks and used to stand up about 6".



This is the only Xenia that's still standing though it's about half the size it was.



Blog still shows the healthy coral from the same night if you want a comparison.

I mixed the salt for 24 hours... my ph test is awol but I'll go buy another, thanks!  That gives me somewhere to start.

Before I had a pH test I used to use my red sea xenia as a pH indicator. If that stuff looked good I was good if is was hurting then my pH was off.