qucik help please

[spieszak]

inverts are way


inverts unhappy. corals are fine, and the ones from the swap (so, stressed out) have polyp extension.
peppermint shrimp out front, screaming for help, pods and mysis in the water column.

did a 35 gallon change (75 gallon tank) Seems to have calmed, just need someone to read and tell me if i'm missing something.

came home from the swap, 15 minue RPS all out dip on the new corals, rinsed, into the tank. hit a couple aiptasia with kalk paste while i had my hands in there. all normal procedure i've done 100 times.

walked away from the tank for a half hour, and when i look again, i see pods and mysis struggling, shrimp out front.. and the picture above. not blaming anyone but me as i probably screwed up somewhere, and i'm guessing it was not rinsing well enough after the dip.

carbon is pretty fresh, but i'll change it in a few... no ph spike accoriding to the probe.

anything else i can be doing to try to make sure i've quelled whatever was occuring?

 

[spieszak]

carbon is changed, actually filled my brs reactor, which i never do.

skimmer has totally lost foam head, so theres 'something' in the water it would seem.

15 gallons made up, ro/di churning away

watch and wait

 

[Gryphon]

That would be my guess, something on your hands the tank didn't like. I have my coals from the Bob Moore in the dip right now myself.

 

[spieszak]

not likely at all the swap had anything to do with it.... nothing but corals made it to the tank... no water... so, i must have picked something up, or screwed up the dip.

 

[Blue Lip]

I believe you are supposed to put your corals in a quarantine tank & use activated charcoal to remove the residual rps all out for 24 hours after dipping coral.

 

[spieszak]

I believe you are supposed to put your corals in a quarantine tank & use activated charcoal to remove the residual rps all out for 24 hours after dipping coral.

not according to the bottle/the web site(last i checked) or past experience (been using it for about a year).... but that might be the procedure going forward...
my guess is that its because of the mulitple.corals. i dipped all at once and used the same 'rinse' water for all. plus the favia is more 'feshy'. i've done it before with multiple sps.....

 

[Blue Lip]

I would acclimate shrimp to another tank. Making sure not to get any acclimating water back in tank.

 

[spieszak]

I would acclimate shrimp to another tank. Making sure not to get any acclimating water back in tank.

not sure what you mean by this, the shrimp have been in the tank for months. and once things calmed down a little bit, they either expired, or went back inot hiding.

 

[spieszak]

re-read it.
they are peppermint shrimp, i won't have any idea if they made it until lights out, and i may not know then either...

 

[BARRON]

Keep an eye on the brs reactor, if filled all the way up they can clog pretty easy, just make sure there is good flow coming out.

 

[BARRON]

Also maybe hang a media bag halfway in the water to absorb anything on the surface.

 

[Blue Lip]

I bought a bottle when it came out. More details about its use on their website than the bottle. I just checked the site to see if it changed. You are supposed to quarantine corals after you rinse them & use carbon to remove residual rps all out. My guess is that rps all out absorbed into the plug or rock the frag is on & leaking out.

 

[spieszak]

i will check the site again, it must have changed. if thats the case, its amazing i haven't lost anything so far.
the brs reactor sits IN my sump, so, i'll be checking on everything pretty consistently, but a clog isn't the worst thing..

will have to look to see if i have a media bag or place to hang

things look fairly normal now, just not sure i can trust that...

 

[Blue Lip]

You did a large water change & fresh carbon may have saved things. Rps all out will kill shrimp & pods.

 

[spieszak]

its just odd for this to be the first time. i'm almost at the end of the bottle... (always shook it well too, so it shouldn't have to do with things settling out). i'm kind of convinced it was the cause, or more precisely my misuse now that they advise QT with carbon, as there really isn't much else to point out...my QT isn't often coral ready (bad lights, low sg) so i will likely just look for a different dip.
i hate losing anything, but if I managed to limit the losses to pods and peppermints, i think i'll take it.
i had actually been planning to head back to the swap, for the raffle stuff (didn't take a cooler with me, and didn't want to leave corals just in bags for too long) sure glad i didn't leave the house without checking out the tank again.

 

[Blue Lip]

Rps all out kills eggs. I don't know of any other dip that has this claim.

 

[spieszak]

not doubting the power. doubting the safety. if i can't follow the directions, and this is what happens when i don't......

 

[Gryphon]

The frag raffle took forever. They probably called every number in the 140s except mine until the end lol.

I did get a nice pulsing Xenia frag with a emerald crab hitch hiker though.

 

[BARRON]

Mine was called really late too but there was still a bunch of good pieces left.

 

[spieszak]

Didn't see anyone I knew before I headed home to drop off the frags. (which turned into this) Wish I had, at least I could have given them my raffle ticket.