Corals not doing well...help!!

[g8rorchid]

Not sure what is going on. After my hammer began to deflate I noticed that one of my open brains wasn't looking well and neither was my pagoda. I did a 15-20% water change a couple of days ago and tested the water yesterday... ph 8.2, alk about 240-300ppm, nitrite 0, nitrate a bit high at 80ppm. Yesterday noticed that the other open brain was starting to go downhill too. Then tonight out of nowhere my anemone flipped itself, facing the back of the tank as opposed to facing up. After seeing that I "cleaned" some of my filter media(canister filter - rinsed out sponges, prefilter media, and put a new phos x bag).

What is causing all of this??? Are either brain salvageable? What about my pagoda? anemone? I am in Ft Lauderdale and if anyone from the tri county area is reading this and would like to play coral doctor and help out or perhaps do a trade, I would really appreciate it!

Thank you!!

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OPEN BRAIN #1

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OPEN BRAIN #2

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ANEMONE

[kau_cinta_ku]

I am gonna suspect the nitrates. 80ppm is very high for those corals.

also what are your other parameters? (ammonia, cal. mag. sg, temp, ect.)

[demonsp]

By the pic it doesnt look to old.
How long as tank been up and running?
Water source?
Whats used for flow?
Do you feed the coral?
How often do you do water changes and the amount and do you let the new batch circulate before adding to the main tank?
Type of CUC?
Do you have a skimmer?
It also says FOWLR but you have coral.

It would help if you add your specs like amount of LR and lighting and equipment listed in your profile.

[Blown 346]

The nitrate is most likely the reason for this. Im sorry but the brain is a gonner.

[BurntOutReefer]

agree that nitrates are cause......dump out the brain as thats toast.....and start 10% water changes and cut down on feeding...and whats your filtration cleaning schedule? I would clean your sponges atal everytime you do a waterchange....rinse in old sw and then put them back in....