help my green star polyps are dying!!!

thomasp123 · 01/21/2009, 07:30 PM

I have had a nice colony of green star polyps which I reallly like. They have doubled in size in the last 2 months and all of a sudden yesterday a small portion of it was closed with a dusty looking brown powder in a lump on them. I blew it off with a turkey baster and today it seem worse and they seem to be half dead. Is this some type of parasite? how can I control this?
Tom

MotherFish · 01/21/2009, 07:41 PM

Have you dosed or treated the tank with anything lately?

When was the last time you tested your water?

joem1cha3l · 01/21/2009, 07:45 PM

What are you running for lighting

thomasp123 · 01/21/2009, 07:48 PM

I tested my water over the weekend at it seems fine ph 8.2 dk = 9, NH3 NO3 PO4 all zero Ca 420. I just got a test for iodide and it was zero also so I started dosing with that. it is now 0.06 ppm. I also started dosing with strontium and molybdenum from kent because it seemed to be a good thing to do.

thomasp123 · 01/21/2009, 07:52 PM

Lighting is compact fluorecents 4 x 65 watts in a 75gallon tank. All my LPS are looking good. frogg spaun, duncan, open brain, hammers, as are my anthias sp? and yellow and green polyps and I also have two colonies of zooanthids all are fine.

thomasp123 · 01/22/2009, 07:02 AM

bump

drauka99 · 01/22/2009, 08:34 AM

is the covering slimmy? Cyno possibly? perhaps try readjusting the flow so you get a little more flow on the affected area.

Most people have problems with GSP taking over thier tanks, havn't know of myany things that bother them.

01/21/2009, 07:30 PM	#1
thomasp123 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Hadley MA Posts: 345	help my green star polyps are dying!!! I have had a nice colony of green star polyps which I reallly like. They have doubled in size in the last 2 months and all of a sudden yesterday a small portion of it was closed with a dusty looking brown powder in a lump on them. I blew it off with a turkey baster and today it seem worse and they seem to be half dead. Is this some type of parasite? how can I control this? Tom

01/21/2009, 07:45 PM	#3
joem1cha3l Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1,158	What are you running for lighting __________________ IM10G Nano - MP10, AI Nano, RKL

01/22/2009, 08:34 AM	#7
drauka99 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: at the Beach in Fl Posts: 792	is the covering slimmy? Cyno possibly? perhaps try readjusting the flow so you get a little more flow on the affected area. Most people have problems with GSP taking over thier tanks, havn't know of myany things that bother them. __________________ "Aliie, Eat a Snickers, you're "HANGRY" - me "I sometimes enjoy watching shadow puppet shows" - jpfelix "Bacon is Love." - Fat Man Current Tank Info: 240 Algae Farm System Running

01/21/2009, 07:41 PM	#2
MotherFish Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida Posts: 208	Have you dosed or treated the tank with anything lately? When was the last time you tested your water?

01/21/2009, 07:48 PM	#4
thomasp123 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Hadley MA Posts: 345	I tested my water over the weekend at it seems fine ph 8.2 dk = 9, NH3 NO3 PO4 all zero Ca 420. I just got a test for iodide and it was zero also so I started dosing with that. it is now 0.06 ppm. I also started dosing with strontium and molybdenum from kent because it seemed to be a good thing to do.

01/21/2009, 07:52 PM	#5
thomasp123 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Hadley MA Posts: 345	Lighting is compact fluorecents 4 x 65 watts in a 75gallon tank. All my LPS are looking good. frogg spaun, duncan, open brain, hammers, as are my anthias sp? and yellow and green polyps and I also have two colonies of zooanthids all are fine.

01/22/2009, 07:02 AM	#6
thomasp123 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Hadley MA Posts: 345	bump