Heartbreak hotel

[Joe Reefer]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

As I said offline Tony, every time I put my hand in the tank, I'd get heavy infections in any open wound. I spoke with my doctor who agreed it could be a strain of vibrio (not flesh eating disease ) and that the broad spectrum antibiotic could help. Being the idiot I often am, I used all th emeds on my tank instead of me, and the tank did clear up after treatment. I also stopped getting infections from scratches on the rockwork. Vibrio?? Who knows, but the antibiotic did resolve whatever was sloughing my acros. No science here, just experience...

This is funny.

[digital-audiophile]

You know, that actually makes sense. I have pretty bad excema on my hands, but in the past couple couple months I have found that my hands seem to be getting worse. My doctor prescribed me a cream that is actually for jock itch becuase he figured I have some kind of fungal infection. The cream does not seem to be helping that much and maybe it is becuase I have open cuts from the cracked skin and I keep infecting myself in the tank water...... hmm very interesting.

[Canuckgod420]

I've been fighting a problem like this for over a year now.....I had a tank full of sweet acros along with an anemone, cabbage leather, toadstool leather, some zoos, and a bunch of GSP.
One day I noticed that the cross piece on my trim up top had completely broken free and now the tank was bowing out alot. So I clamped the tank, all was ok.
I got the replacement part and set a side a day to drain the tank and replace the top trim.
At the same time I made the decission to change my lighting set up( I didnt like the cheap reflector I was using) and I also changed my salt from kent to tropic marin.
The work went fine, all was well. Then just a few days later I began to notice that the acros were beginning to lose tissue on the tips...I just assumed this was from air exposure for the hour it took to do the work. But as the days went on things got worse.....panic set in.
My fish were fine, softies were fine but the zoos started to suffer as well, then the anemone moved into a shaded area........what was going on?
I couldnt figure it out. Needless to say all the sps died...it sucked....so I left everything else in there for several months....all the fish looked good.
Then I tried another couple of frags of sps...they died in 3 days.
So I stripped down the tank, removed all the sand and sifted through it, someone had told me to check for a penny. Nothing was found......so I rebuilt the tank added some new sand and a few new rocks and let the tank cycle again.
Then I added some more sps....guess what? They were doing ok.....until 3 days ago......I removed some glass pieces I had on top of the tank for cleaning(about 30 minutes) and not even an hour later some of the sps were dumping tissue again....now I have several frags that are suffering. I attribute this to too much light....I'm probably wrong but what else do I have to blame?
I moved my lights way up and shortened the time the lights are on....we'll see what happens.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Joe Reefer

This is funny.

Um, not really. Maybe I just don't get the funny part.....

[Phanman]

I think he was implying to the fact you used the medication on your fish tank instead of yourself.

[Joe Reefer]

Originally Posted by reef_raf

Um, not really. Maybe I just don't get the funny part.....

The "I used all the meds on the tank" part.

[danny zubot]

Originally Posted by reef_raf
Um, not really. Maybe I just don't get the funny part.....
The "I used all the meds on the tank" part.
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Such a selfless act.

Tony, what is your light power output and cycle on that tank anyway? I think there might be something to Canuckgod420's suggestion that there is too much light. The only reason I might think this is valid is because I say a local reefer's tank that blew my mind, and he was running his lights for only 8 hours a day. I always thought that a reef needed minimum 10-12 hours to thrive, but I thought I'd try reducing my photo period and see what happens. Bam, within a week my SPS gained more color. So I increased my photo period to 10 hours from 8 recently just to see what would happen, and my SPS lost color. Go figure!

Of course, I have 400 watts over my tank which might play a huge roll in my experience. Anyway, free advice is worth what you pay for it. Lots of good theories in this thread anyway.

[Delphinus]

Well now that is very interesting. I run my halides for 10 hours over my 75g and the tank this coral was put in is run 12 hours (because there is no dawn/dusk cycle). The light is a single 250W halide. That is a really interesting observation...

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Joe Reefer

The "I used all the meds on the tank" part.

Ok I thought it was stupid, not funny, I could have been in trouble, medically speaking. Would I do it again? Oh yea! I'm seein' the funny part now....

[Joe Reefer]

I know this is not on topic but I can attest to the halide theory. I am down to 8 hours a day. Color is ok.