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white as in flesh disappearing and skeleton showing. They all have turn super bright white on the first day, then starting going yellow brown by the 3rd - 4th day. When they are brown, there are about 20 hermits that show up and chill out on them.
The first large one to go was from a tank tear down of reefer rob i believe. I got two corals from him, the second one is still going strong. The second large coral to go was from oceanic corals thats was in my system for several months. The last two are from whatcaneyedo, they are smaller but were really doing well. ill have to check the mg, as I havent checked it in awhile. |
I'd blame the bulbs. I had the spectrum on both my MH 150's go at the same time (thus I didn't notice it because each looked identical) until 2 Acro's bleached whiter then white. After a week or so they turn into a algea farm :)
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Death of a single coral/colony will sometimes spread to nearby corals. This has led me to conclude that there may be a bacterial component at work.
I'll provide an example... I was running two isolated systems. Both had healthy populations of SPS. A colony began to die in tank A. So, thinking that tank A had some kind of problem (lighting, CA, Alk etc.)... I moved the colony into tank B. When I returned to tank B less that 24 hours later, 4 SPS closest to the imported colony had died. There was nothing wrong with any SPS in tank B. The addition of a single piece of dying coral killed others within 24 hours and it killed corals closest, first. It has nothing to do with tank parameters. |
WTH!
I just lost another SPS. This one was 12 inches directly under a 150w MH. White in under 24hrs. It was about 6inches round. Im thinking I better get the new light over this tank ASAP. |
had that happened to me few months back.
I believe it was the low alk cause the initial die off. And since I was away from home during that time, more SPS was dying. Came from from holiday, only to find that I already lost 1/2 of my SPS and die off continued for another week of so. not sure what fix my it. since I did a multiple thing at that time 1. lots of water changes 2. correct the low alk issue 3. add in carbon reactor hope any of these helps |
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What i dont get is all these colonies that have died were flourishing the day before. Just doesn't make sense. The one that just died was a small 1 inch frag and it grew into a 6in ball in under a year. SPS is starting to drive me nuts. None of my LPS/softies have died |
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From my experience, sps rtn isn't caused by pests because no animals can consume a large colony in one day. I had some sps rtn before, some were wild colonies and others was due to heat in the summer with temps rising above 89f. I also had a tank crash because of meds and disturbing the sand bed. But since you don't have wild colonies and run a chiller there's definitely something in the water. Have you been dosing anything new when you started to notice the symptoms of rtn? Something in the water that the sps don't like for them to die off so suddenly. Hope you get the problem rectified soon, I would say like others have suggested maybe some water changes to dissipate whatever is poisoning the sps.
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