mini tank crash....palythoa toxin the cause???

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by marcingo

I had the same thing happen to me years ago. My first tank (10 gal). All was great and I put in a rock with a hundred or so of these large brown palys. Next morning everything was dead. Feather duster crawled out dead on the sand, all bristle worms dead, corals, fish, everything except the palys which were wide open enjoying the water.

sounds close to whats happening to mine mine arent brown but they are def a big piece to add to a little tank and it would have to be a result of the sliming all of that slime in a little tank is sure to find its way into everything else. im heading to the store now to grab some more salt as i can see where this is going, im gonna have to blow off each coral and sand and rock and do a massive water change.this has got me so ****ed right now.im gonna add the carbon back to my reactor and change the phosphate media out now as well tonight. other than that theres not much i can do but ride it out any more handling of the palys is just going to make it worse....fml