I hate sps sometimes

pickupman66 · Oct 28, 2013

Aaaggghhh.

So with tears in my eyes I had to hack apart my massive purple slimer. It was rtn-ing from the bottom up. No really clue why except that my phosphates were .20 last night. It lost 60% of its entrusting base so I had to completely cut the stalk. Cut it about an inch above the bad and dipped in coral rx pro. Cut some other large hjnks off the back that were good and putting my frag system. Aaaggghhh! My favorite piece no less. I still have the massive top so hopefully it is safe and I can regrow it.

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schooleyosis · Oct 28, 2013

Sorry to hear that Lindsey. I really hope that the piece you broke off and dipped pulls through. Our tanks are always a bit of mystery if you ask me.

p woodard · Oct 28, 2013

Sorry to hear that man

mike007 · Oct 28, 2013

Bummer if you find the cause let us know. I lost a Stag because i dosed alk too close to it.

pickupman66 · Oct 29, 2013

Thanks guys. Frags looked good this morning but where it was is nasty. Almost a brown jelly to it sloughing off. It must have been some sort of bacterial infection.

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.AcroKiller. · Oct 29, 2013

I have the same thing going on with my green slimmer for some reason

Tennsquire · Oct 29, 2013

I lost my whole tank to something like this several years back. I watched sps colonies (some softball sized and bigger) just slough off their skin, and it jumped from coral to coral despite my mad fragging efforts. The only thing that survived was a large piece of heliopora (which is really an octocoral with a hard skeleton). I gave up for a while, but am about a year and a half into the restart. I still don't know what caused it, but I'm back chasing sps success and everything is doing well (despite a recent move). We tempt fate when we play Poseidon with our little boxes of saltwater....

pickupman66 · Oct 29, 2013

YIKES!!!! well, this is actually two that have gone white from the ground up. one was my Grape Sherbert Acropora. I fragged it and I have 1 left. the other fags went up in flames and the one that was doing best.. well my urchin wanted to throw that one in the back. the ONLY thing I can think i changed is adding an ATS and removing the UV from my tank. the ATS components were washed before they were used. HMMM.. maybe I need to toss in a baggie of Carbon to make sure.. Ill do that tonight when I get home.

bct15 · Oct 29, 2013

Have you checked the problematic acros for aefw? It's easy...just soak them in a iodine dip for about 10 minutes then hit them hard with blasts from a turkey baster. They should come off and if you use a clear bowl on white paper or a white bowl you can see them. That is the only way to see them, you'll never see one on an acro even out the water an inch from your eyeball.

I'm not saying that is what it is but it might be...

FishNFrags · Oct 29, 2013

I don't think adding a ATS would have any effect on your SPS, unless possibly some PVC glue got into your water?

pickupman66 · Oct 29, 2013

BCT, yes. I dipped it in Coral RX pro last night and nothing came off. I had AEFW last year and beat them. this coral was never infected by them as it is a slimer. the best way to knock AEFW off a coral is the Bayer. I didnt dip with that because I didnt see any in the Coral Rx dip either. just a ton of slime.