• Tubastrea urgently needs help!

  • Shane

Here's the situation: there is a 54-liter tank with 6 kg of live rock, a denitrator, carbon, and Purigen in the system. The tubastrea has been feeling bad for the fourth day and is simply dying, first one polyp, then another... they are covered with a gray film and die overnight... The tubastrea has always been well-fed... The water temperature fluctuates around 28 degrees. What could be the problem? Currently, there is no Lugol's solution... Question: how can it be prepared? From what components? Any advice would be appreciated... It really looks like the tubastrea is deteriorating before my eyes...

Jessica

LUGOL'S SOLUTION (Solutio Lugoli). A solution of iodine in an aqueous solution of potassium iodide. Composition: 1 part iodine, 2 parts potassium iodide, 17 parts water. First, dissolve potassium iodide in water, then dissolve crystalline iodine in the resulting solution (if you can find it...).

James8887

Will pharmacy Lugol's solution work?

Jill1815

This is most likely brown jelly. You take a hammer and chisel or a knife (one that you don't mind throwing away) and cut off all the polyps with the infection. Lugol's solution won't help you in this case.

Jill9137

Message the Old Man privately. The coral was peeling off after the journey (also a whitish film and then it was done for). Ray is currently treating it and seems to have stopped the "decay." In the pharmacies that produce "their" medicines, there should be crystalline iodine. The container just needs to be airtight, as iodine sublimes.

Monique1236

Two little stones with polyps went after the rainbow... I can't understand what caused this, even if I try; it doesn't really look like tissue necrosis (I had that with euphyllia). There is some similarity, of course, but here the tubes seem to just be disintegrating... And this is despite the fact that they've been in the jar for about six months, and they are being fed abundantly... The only thing is that 1 kg of live rocks and a couple of kg of dry reef rocks were added... that's it, nothing else has changed...

Maria6659

The same thing happened with the Boyu-450 (60 L). A kind person gave me a couple of underfed polyps; the aquarium was a couple of months old, so this was my first rather challenging coral. I fed it, and it even started to split, but then it just disappeared in a week... I never understood what the problem was. I concluded that I shouldn't keep them anymore... Although maybe I'm wrong...