James croft Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Need help with my acan it has a film over that is killing it. I have removed what is already dead but the slime is still killing my acan any anybody with suggestion in despaired need of help thanks James croft Link to comment
rturiak Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Can you post some picture and more info? How long have you had the coral? How long has the tank been set up? How is the other coral in the tank doing? What are the water parameters? Any parasites? Welcome to NR, lots of good people and good info on here, just be sure to provide more info when you post looking for help Link to comment
James croft Posted June 28, 2015 Author Share Posted June 28, 2015 The pram items are really great in the tank it has been in a 75 gal tank. Have had this coral about six to eight months after noticing the change in the coral removed it cut off the dead part put in a iodine dip and placed back into my 29 gal tank which also has great pram items I see no parasites in the tank either one. No fish in the 29 gal, the 75 only has two fire fish and a lawnmower blenney. Have been trying to move a picture over but tablet won't let come over will try to figure this out. At the time of cutting they was nothing but Skelton on the areas that I removed but today I've noticed that I'm beginning to see more skelton please help Link to comment
James croft Posted June 28, 2015 Author Share Posted June 28, 2015 here is the picture that I finally got to transfer thanks Link to comment
yomon347 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Its looking pretty bad, the slime probably came after the decline of the coral. At this point I would be tempted to try a quick peroxide dip. Perhaps half tank water, half 3% peroxide for 30 seconds. Even if all the heads die I would place it in the back of my tank and see if it rebounds. I have heard of bubble coral doing this after losing all their flesh. Link to comment
pgrVII Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Its looking pretty bad, the slime probably came after the decline of the coral. At this point I would be tempted to try a quick peroxide dip. Perhaps half tank water, half 3% peroxide for 30 seconds. Even if all the heads die I would place it in the back of my tank and see if it rebounds. I have heard of bubble coral doing this after losing all their flesh. Bubble corals definitely do this,I got one that was so bad from a tank tear down that I wasn't really sure what it was,after about 3 days it was healthier and I could tell what it was,after a week or so it was really big and full. Biggest piece of coral in my tank now. Link to comment
smeagol108 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 It also look like there a few various strains of algae in excess in the tank so I would think that there is some kind of nutrient problems as well which over time could definitely lead to coral demise. Nitrates and phosphates may be undetectable with test kits due to algae soaking up all nutrients. The slime could be algae itself from the looks of it. Link to comment
James croft Posted June 29, 2015 Author Share Posted June 29, 2015 Thanks for all of your suggestions unfortunately it has completely died I have nothing but Skelton left so have removed it from my tank to dry out the only algae that I have in my tank is hair algae which it is a new break out if you have suggestions on fighting hair algae please post thank to all of you for your help Link to comment
Moulton712 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 I'd run a little carbon if there are any toxins from you acan dying. Sorry to hear. Link to comment
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