Montipora whiting out rapidly...questions...

[brian moran]

So I neglected to turn my power heads on the other night after feeding with reefroids & I have a big Monti going white pretty rapidly night after night. Could this have been from the power heads being off? They were off for about 12 hours.

All parameters are good & all other corals are doing OK.

Any way to best handle this to stop it?

Thanks,

 

[Crabs McJones]

So I neglected to turn my power heads on the other night after feeding with reefroids & I have a big Monti going white pretty rapidly night after night. Could this have been from the power heads being off? They were off for about 12 hours.

All parameters are good & all other corals are doing OK.

Any way to best handle this to stop it?

Thanks,

Are the other corals sps as well or is this your only sps? 12 hours is a long time for a monti with no flow, however they make it through shipping which can sometimes be 24 hours or more. Any pictures.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

Is the white spreading bottom up or top down? Your best bet is to remove the dying portion and see if that stops the spread.

 

[brian moran]

White is spreading from top to bottom. It got a little worse overnight so I just broke off all the white portions...

 

[burninreefer]

top down, sounds like alk burn. montis are really tough and they can take a lot, but it sounds like burn to me

 

[brian moran]

Could be. I used brightwell alk 8.3 this week. My alk was 7.0 & it is now about 7.8 or 8.0... should it stop?

 

[Crabs McJones]

Could be. I used brightwell alk 8.3 this week. My alk was 7.0 & it is now about 7.8 or 8.0... should it stop?

How fast have you been raising your alk.

 

[SaltySteve]

It's not nudibranchs? No tiny whiteish tissue-like spots near the dead areas?