Montipora Bleaching??

[JCOLE]

I have had this piece for over 6 months and it has had great growth and color. Walked in to check on the tank this afternoon and noticed a bleached spot. It kinda of looks like the tissue is receding. All other SPS is doing great with good color. Haven't changed anything and everything is stable. I am going to monitor it and see if there is anything bothering it.

What do you think?

 

[DSC reef]

That's definitely necrosis as the colony looks great. If it continues I'd break that piece off. Keep an eye out for pests.

 

[JCOLE]

That's definitely necrosis as the colony looks great. If it continues I'd break that piece off. Keep an eye out for pests.

I think I am going to break it off anyways and put it in my frag tank for now. I have been dosing Vibrant for 4 weeks now. It dropped my Nitrates and Phosphates down to 0 and Dinos started. I started dosing Nitrate and Phosphate over the last 2 weeks and Dinos have cleared up completely. Nitrates have been sitting at around 8ppm and PO4 at .05 for the last two weeks. I haven't fed reef roids in a couple weeks so I decided to feed last night. Just tested and my NO3 is at 12 and my PO4 is at .18. Do you think that could have done something?

Salinity - 1.026
Alk - 8.28 Trident, Hanna - 8.2
Calcium - 470 Trident, Hanna 454
Mag - 1412 Trident
No3 - 12ppm - Red Sea
Po4 - .18ppm - Hanna

 

[DSC reef]

A sudden drop in nutrients could definitely irritate the coral, vibrant wreaked havoc in one of the tanks I had and I believe it was due to rapid decline in nutrients. Just try to keep things stable at this point.

 

[JCOLE]

Broke it off and put it in my frag tank. Going to miss the uniform but maybe it might cause it to grow different now?

 

[DSC reef]

That's an impressive colony!

 

[NanoDJS]

I dont touch that vibrant stuff , so I cannot say either way how i feel about it. Thats a beautiful colony really dig the pattern. Im a sucker for caps, the colony as a whole looks fine I hope it was like a freak accident with a hermit or something that maybe fell onto it or damaged it but the section you took should prevent any stn from hitting the colony .

 

[JCOLE]

That's an impressive colony!

Thanks. It is a really nice deep pink with yellow polyps.

6 months ago

 

[JCOLE]

I dont touch that vibrant stuff , so I cannot say either way how i feel about it. Thats a beautiful colony really dig the pattern. Im a sucker for caps, the colony as a whole looks fine I hope it was like a freak accident with a hermit or something that maybe fell onto it or damaged it but the section you took should prevent any stn from hitting the colony .

Vibrant has cleared up my GHA and now my bubble algae is atleast 50% better. It did drop my nutrients down to where Dinos kicked in. Other than that it hasn't been an issue.

Thank you. Hopefully it is fine now as well.