Blue sponge dying

[dominik]

After two days away from home, came home and found blue sponge became white sponge. My one branch of frogspawn also melted. Firefish died, clown fish MIA and one cleaner shrimp died. Cynrinas don't seem healthy. Jewel not fully opened. Is the blue spnoge resposible for all this? should i remove or keep?

[dominik]

melted frogspawn

[FuEl]

Remove the sponge......Increase skimming, add activated carbon, or do massive water change.

[dominik]

did the blue sponge release toxin when it die?

[wil_lee76]

bro bro bro,

as usual, please check ur water parameters....ur signs is very jiat liat.....

[dreamzcape]

yeah i had a blue sponge once...when it started dying i went to do some reading up. Better get it out of the tank. The process is almost irreversible to save it unless amputation if not wrong.

Sponges need to be be underwater at all times even during handling, if microbubbles get stuck in its pores, it's very hard if not impossible for them to expel the bubbles on their own effort.

I wouldn't just blame the sponge though, check your parameters too!

Best of luck bro

[tineng]

it could also be the other way round.....less then good condition is causing all corals in the tank to start dying off........what's you parameter anyway????

Oh, yeah, blue sponge does release toxin when it dies, but normally if your tank is large enough and running carbon, it should still be ok - but will be safer to take it out once it reach the stage shown in your photo...i encounter before, but that's becuase my system was a small 1 footer without carbon running.....

[dreamzcape]

yeah bro that's why i also said not necessarily it's the sponge's fault...but advice on the sponge would be to take out

[dominik]

NO2 is 0, NO3 is 10 and NH4 is 0. The pH is a bit low at 7.9. Temp is around 25 to 26.

Is the pH causing the problem?

[Metam]

Ph is slightly on the low side, use seachem PH buffer 8.2 to increase your PH. U can search more to study more abt PH Value...

[dominik]

I am using the aquapharm pH 8.3 buffer. seems like not effective. maybe will try seachem.