SPS dying? HELP!!!

travisw30 · May 25, 2011

So I have neon green SPS colony that is dying from the base up. Polyps slowly disappearing then white/dead. The tips seem to be doing fine about 1"-1 1/2" all on the outside. Also all my other SPS is fine. I have a couple of frags of this and they just started doing the same thing! I was just going to give it time to grow back but now I don't know what's going on. Anyone ever see this before? I will try and post some pics tonight.
Thanks for the help.

wickedfish · May 25, 2011

travisw30 said:

Wild colony?

Is it new to your tank? If so it happens. Any fluctuations in alk or ph? Check your alk for us?

And let us know what you usually have it at???

travisw30 · May 25, 2011

No not wild got it as a frag from steve garrett. Got it as a 3" frag with some branches. Has been doing amazing grew out quit a bit. It's been in my tank since that Camarillo frag show. My alk is usually between 8.5-9 dkh. I will check again for you. I dose about 40ml a day of the stuff from BRS.

travisw30 · May 25, 2011

Current alk is 9dkh but I usually check at night when I dose.
Here are some pics.

james-lee · May 25, 2011

Whats the rest of your parameters?

teriyakithunder · May 25, 2011

If it keeps dying, the best thing to do might be to try and frag the healthy looking parts to try and salvage what you can.

OCReefMadness · May 25, 2011

Temperature swing?

travisw30 · May 25, 2011

teriyakithunder said:

Haha yeah I thought about it. I don't want 100 1" frags. Cost a bunch just for the plugs. Haha.

travisw30 · May 25, 2011

ReefPlanet said:

I had one around the time this started went from 79-83.7 from 10am to 3pm peeked and went back down. On average I have a 1-2 degree swing during the day. I still don't understand the inside out problem it's very uniform.

travisw30 · May 25, 2011

james-lee said:

Ca-480
Ph- 8.3
Phos- .02
Alk- 9 dkh
Mag- 1280
Salinity 1.026

Clifford · May 25, 2011

Have you inspected it for bugs? Did you dip it?

travisw30 · May 26, 2011

No what kind of bugs do you think could do that?

JOSE CASAS · May 26, 2011

Any drastic changes +/- in the sys. Maybe they need more flow. Also have you checked for pest?

wickedfish · May 26, 2011

For starters I also thought of redbugs. But the signs are usually discoloration over time. Fading if you will.

Eventually say a purple piece will be violet, then creamish, then just crap.

Also might be flat worms. I don't have experience with those but I know they like to lay their eggs around the base.

I would do a baby quarantine. In a brute trash can put new salt water mixed overnight with a heater and a powerhead. Add the proper dose of interceptor. Refer to www.melevsreef.com. Fine ground and let it mix in good. Also add some AEFW exit from Salifert. Also follow instructions.

Leave it in the quarantine for say 2 days. And repeat if you believe it is infected. You can treat interceptor in the display. But it's more work but if you have redbugs you will see them floating around if you have super sight. I do, but I cheat with the seeing lens (portal.)

OrionOTS · May 26, 2011

Because the mother colony and the frags are dying apart from each other, I am going to say disease. Pests would be seen on the coral if they were causing that much death, so I am going to vote for disease. Probably not much you can do at this point. sucks but it happens.

travisw30 · May 26, 2011

OrionOTS said:

That's what I was thinking as well since like you said the Frags and mother colony are apart and have been for some time doing fine for about 2 months. Now both are having issues. I think the heat spike must of stressed it out and now some sort of disease. Can it spread though to other corals or is it just dying with no effect on the others. Also it's about 60g of water and I do regular 10-20g WC every week or two. Too much water to change?

travisw30 · Jun 4, 2011

Ok so one of my other birds nest is doing the same thing except faster! Is there a site that talk about different coral diseases?

5ft24 · Jun 4, 2011

it's called STN (Slow Tissue Necrosis). it dies from the bottom up.
Can be a lot of things. Get your mag up to 1440 minimum... it should be 3 times the Ca plus a little. What temp does your tank normally run at?
Any changes in lights (new bulbs, changing height etc)?
Changes in positions of other corals near these?
Frag a couple of the best pieces above the tissue line... hopefully, if it's not a pest, it will grow and not STN. do you dose iodine? If you don't have an iodine test kit, use 1 drop of Lugols per week.

Reefer08 · Jun 4, 2011

What are you using for water movement? It could be dying from not enough water flow.

travisw30 · Jun 4, 2011

5ft24 said:

Ok I gotta work on the mag. I did add a giesmann 10k that killed 2 acans and I kinda think about sweep or two after this started happening started a bit after a temp spike too. My tank is usually between 79-82 I'm working on lowering the temp right now. I want to eventually have the low at 76.5ish. Coral have been in there positions for quite some time now. I justdont understand that the frags are doing the same thing at the same time??!?. What's lugols for? I dose iodide spangling not iodine.

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