New Coral From Liveaquaria In! SPS/Clam!

Probably not a good sign... bump for smarter people than me

 

love the monti... However i'm pretty useless with coral so someone else will have to help you with the Q's.

 

Clam probably just expelling waste after being in yucky water for over 24 hours. They often do this after shipping.

 

But is it a bad sign that everything decided to poop? I have never actually witnessed my Duncans doing it, even though I know they do.

I am running a new filter pad now with some Seachem Renew, which will be the first time I run carbon in over 4 months. Hopefully that'll tide the tank over untill the WC on Thursday.

 

Try to only make one adjustment to the system at a time. That way you know what to correct and or adjust when you have doubts.

I would not add any more seachem to the system.

Carbon is a great thing and I advocate it's use, but I have seen problems adding too much carbon to a system at one time when you have not used it for awhile.

At this point it is just a wait and see and let things settle.

Deep breath, deep breath.................

 

Ha ha ok...ok. I'm just worried about the duncans now. Most the heads are slightly retracted with their mouths opening, they look like they make be expelling water also?

Lights are about to cut off and that will be the best thing for me so I can't meddle until tomorrow.

 

I'm only posting this because no one else has posted a full explanation as to why things are 'pooping' yet. It is my understanding, from the little I know, that corals do not have a full digestive system so they cannot "poop". They only expel what they cannot use of a food, such as a hard shell, etc that's typically white. If they are expelling brown stuff, usually it's actually a type of reserve they hold. This can be seen of like fat, stored up nutrients they keep inside incase they need them, typically related directly to lighting. They will store up a lot when they feel they need a lot, then expel it when they feel as if they no longer need it. If a coral is "pooping", usually that is the first sign that bleaching is occuring.

This is more than likely an adjustment to the change in lighting. If it presists or is happening with corals that were not a part of lighting change in your tank, it's possible something may be making your corals unhappy.

This is all I know... and it's handed down information. Hopefully someone can expand on this. I've only found out by 'word of mouth', so I don't know much more. I believe my source of information is Elegance Coral from RC.

Edit: zooxanthellae, that's the stuff. Check out the section of coral bleaching on the wikipedia article, it 'hints around' at some possible causes, giving an example which I wouldn't have thought would cause coral bleaching. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooxanthella