NO3 Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 Just bought 2 non-branching octopus coral(one of brown colour and the other neon green). However, after 3 days in my tank, I can see some tissue sloughed (dead I suppose) off from neon green. Have used a toothpick to get rid of dead tissues. I was suspecting my acclimatization was not up to standards. I am using 3 ATI T5 tubes for my 3 footer. First day: only switched on Actinic blue 2nd day: revert back to normal photoperiod i.e. 8 daylight in between 10 actinic blue 3rd day (today): some tissues sloughed off. Subsequently, loaded off 2 drops of lugol's solution (max dosage per day) Urgently need some advice from old birds or anyone to halt the sloughing. Current water parameters: Ammonia: 0 Sera Nitrite: 0 Sera Nitrate: 10ppm Salifert PH: 8.0 - 8.3 Salifert dkh: 12 Sera S.G: 1.025, 34PPT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwilly Posted December 17, 2003 Share Posted December 17, 2003 some pic?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NO3 Posted December 17, 2003 Author Share Posted December 17, 2003 digital camera tomorrow. so normally in this kind circumstances, can I say there is nothing to be done? let nature take over? Or most likely gone case as it will spread to the rest of it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member blacknails Posted December 17, 2003 SRC Member Share Posted December 17, 2003 Are they releasing this 'dead tissue' or is the coral itself dying? Cause if it's the first it's normal as corals do this (I think to cleanse themselves) from time to time.. But if the coral itself is dying and rotting away... Check your water parameters and other LS immediately... Could be an NH3 or NO2 spike.... Most likely not due to not enuf light as corals dun act this way if not given enuf light... They will probably just retract till there's light.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightningstrike Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 dun think ur problem come from the lights....... i hv 1 non branching octopus for 2 mths liao and i m only using ZooMed coral sun and ocean sun FLs. yet they r doing fine and even growing....... Quote Austin the Westie: "I may be your best friend, but you are my everything". Lightning Strike's Back!!! Reefkeeping Is Not My Hobby, It's My Obsession. Austin's Birthday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAriNe_enthusiast Posted December 18, 2003 Share Posted December 18, 2003 If u are sure it's dead...u may want to siphon the dead one out. Just on case it might affect ur water quality further and pose danger to ur other livestocks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NO3 Posted December 19, 2003 Author Share Posted December 19, 2003 Thank u all for yr invaluable advice. Could not get a gd picture, as i was rescaping and added some Fiji LR fr CF. Btw, the affected coral I was mentioning did not slough off any more dead tissues(tentacles). But I can clearly see some parts of tentacles are beginning to die off. Though this is not the first time it happened to me(I had previously few mnths back bought a non-branching octo with 4 polyps and they die off 1 by 1 over a period of 2 wks) As the non-branching octo was more ex and difficult to get hold off nowadays, I hate to know that it might die off soon too : ( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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