I got a purple stylo the other day and a red digi. Sadly the purple stylo was in bad condition and is practically half dead. SG 1.025 Cal 480 dKH 10.7 I run a AI Hydra 26 HD for 10 hrs. Ramp up 9:00 am sunset 5:00 pm.
Purple Stylo bleaching
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I would just make sure you place the frag low and test for nutrients. With alk that high you need po4 and no3 in the water column.
Yup^^^^. What those guys said.
Med flow /light (100par) till it heals and acclimates. Then move it around.
Rescue corals are the best! Who doesn't like a challenge.
Med flow /light (100par) till it heals and acclimates. Then move it around.
Rescue corals are the best! Who doesn't like a challenge.
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He is kinda high so I am going to lower him, and check for nitrates and phosphates. I feed half a block of mysis a day, and practically none is left over since I give them what they need.
Looks like it's prett happy there.
Happy polyps
Happy polyps
Ashish Patel
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my milka stylo frag was my first coral in my tank.. I noticed the coral bleaching pretty bad but had good polyp extension caused by low nutrients or too much light. It made a full recovery and was pretty dark colored after a few months. It survived a nitrate dosing incident (6 weeks back) but when the auto feeder started dropping in more then ideal pellets (3 weeks back causing Phosphate spike), this caused STN 2 weeks later.. Corals most of the time have a 7-14Day late reaction to a parameter swing. This is why they say "only change one thing at a time". Last weekend I went away from the weekend and came back to it STNing stylo.. Could have been caused by other things, temperature swing was a problem during my leave. This was the 3rd nail in the coffin and caused the STN. You live and learn and now I know for sure how trying to chase numbers always ends bad, especially with nutrients. Dont try to copy anyones numbers. If yours are low keep them their and feed more or dose aminos. Today I decided to remove the stylo coral and glue the STN and put in low light. I am confident this coral will recover having identified and fixed the problem fairly quickly.
Find out what is the problem and if you can fix it fast enough glueing the STN portion. If you have no problems the coral (if purchased recently), may be reacting to something from previous tank or acclimated to your tell well. I found when corals are losing flesh they do well in low or no light areas. I had a coral RTN and I cut maybe 8 frags and threw them in the sump to see if they would continue to RTN. To my surprise 7 of them stopped RTN and still receiving some light from the refugium light.
Find out the problem and fix it. If not that coral will is most likely already gone. Good luck
Find out what is the problem and if you can fix it fast enough glueing the STN portion. If you have no problems the coral (if purchased recently), may be reacting to something from previous tank or acclimated to your tell well. I found when corals are losing flesh they do well in low or no light areas. I had a coral RTN and I cut maybe 8 frags and threw them in the sump to see if they would continue to RTN. To my surprise 7 of them stopped RTN and still receiving some light from the refugium light.
Find out the problem and fix it. If not that coral will is most likely already gone. Good luck
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Ashish Patel
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Wow that was long.. Honestly, I wish i had someone tell me this 4 months back so I felt compelled to share..Hope it made sense 
Am i the only seeing a tissue recession here?. I think your stylo is having tissue necrosis from bottom up. If yes, something is wrong with water parameters, more likely on micro elements instead of nutrient or light issue.
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Oh yes, everything is doing well. The sand bed had a huge algae bloom, but I have my CUC that cleaned it up. The purp stylo is actually encrusting again.
