Random Acans Melting overnight

[Pyr0FoX77]

Hello All, over the past month I’ve had 5 acans melt almost overnight. I have posted pictures of a few of them below. The pictures range between 12-48 hours apart from each other. Other corals(zoas, sps, Duncan’s, blastos, etc) in the tank seem un-harmed along with a RBTA. 3 other acans in the tank seem to be thriving so I’m confused why it’s affecting my expensive acans!!! Please provide any help you can.

I’ve been having a little bit of trouble with pH and Phospate recently but I got it under control( I think)

pH was swinging between 7.4 and 8.4 throughout the day so I added a fresh air line to my skimmer. It’s been sitting at ~8.2 for the past 9 days.

Phosphate was at 0.5ppm but I added some cheatoto my fuge and have it lit 24/7. I plan to add GFO here in about a week.

one more thing to note is that my nitrate dropped to 0ppm about 2 weeks ago which is strange given how much I feed.

Summary of parameters:
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 0ppm
Phospate: swings between 0-0.25ppm
Calcium: 440ppm
KH: 8-9
Magnesium: 1440ppm

 

[Reeferstin]

Hello All, over the past month I’ve had 5 acans melt almost overnight. I have posted pictures of a few of them below. The pictures range between 12-48 hours apart from each other. Other corals(zoas, sps, Duncan’s, blastos, etc) in the tank seem un-harmed along with a RBTA. 3 other acans in the tank seem to be thriving so I’m confused why it’s affecting my expensive acans!!! Please provide any help you can.

I’ve been having a little bit of trouble with pH and Phospate recently but I got it under control( I think)

pH was swinging between 7.4 and 8.4 throughout the day so I added a fresh air line to my skimmer. It’s been sitting at ~8.2 for the past 9 days.

Phosphate was at 0.5ppm but I added some cheatoto my fuge and have it lit 24/7. I plan to add GFO here in about a week.

one more thing to note is that my nitrate dropped to 0ppm about 2 weeks ago which is strange given how much I feed.

Summary of parameters:
Ammonia: 0ppm
Nitrite: 0ppm
Nitrate: 0ppm
Phospate: swings between 0-0.25ppm
Calcium: 440ppm
KH: 8-9
Magnesium: 1440ppm

Kee

 

[Reeferstin]

Kee

Keep nutrients up all lps need nurtients try feeding alot more or dose nitrate into your system using neonitrate

 

[Pyr0FoX77]

Keep nutrients up all lps need nurtients try feeding alot more or dose nitrate into your system using neonitrate

I will start dosing that, but my nitrates haven’t been low the whole time this has been happening, only the last bit

 

[Pyr0FoX77]

I will start dosing that, but my nitrates haven’t been low the whole time this has been happening, only the last bit

Keep nutrients up all lps need nurtients try feeding alot more or dose nitrate into your system using neonitrate

I feed quite a bit compared to most from what I think. I feed a cube of mysis every other day, tdo pellets and reef roids twice a week and AB+ everyday

 

[andrewkw]

I would have thought for sure brown jelly from the description but doesn't look like it based on the first picture. I would still consider infection rather then water parameters to be likely if they are just melting overnight. Consider an iodine based dip like seachem reef dip.

 

[Pyr0FoX77]

I would have thought for sure brown jelly from the description but doesn't look like it based on the first picture. I would still consider infection rather then water parameters to be likely if they are just melting overnight. Consider an iodine based dip like seachem reef dip.

Thanks for the input! Do you think a bacterial or viral antidote (such as melafix?) along with the iodine would help?

 

[andrewkw]

Thanks for the input! Do you think a bacterial or viral antidote (such as melafix?) along with the iodine would help?

You are welcome. I had many colonies melt 10+ years ago and it still haunts me. As for your second question I am not sure. I have always used seachem reef dip for anything I suspected with an infection or damaged tissue.

What I do know is lack of nutrients or not target feeding is not going to cause overnight melting.

 

[Pyr0FoX77]

You are welcome. I had many colonies melt 10+ years ago and it still haunts me. As for your second question I am not sure. I have always used seachem reef dip for anything I suspected with an infection or damaged tissue.

What I do know is lack of nutrients or not target feeding is not going to cause overnight melting.

thanks! I’ll go grab some seachem reef dip tomorrow. I target feed 2 days a week. I’ve been trying to get the nitrates back up a little because I do have a LPS dominate system

 

[Uncle99]

You have no Nitrate and this is made worse by phosphates on the high end at .25.
Nutrients must be both available and in balance for metabolic growth.
Increase nitrates to 5-10ppm and keep phosphates at .25 max, if this increases, you will need to lower phosphates with a GFO to be in the range of 0.03 - .15

 

[Pyr0FoX77]

Update!
I bought some logul’s iodine today (my lfs didn’t have seachem reef dip) I did a 10 minute dip on all of my corals that have been losing tissue. I will keep you all updated on how they do.

They did not have neonitro or any nitrate supplement in stock, so they ordered some and it will be in Friday so I can start to slowly work up nitrates to my desired level.

Thank you all for your information so far.

 

[Pyr0FoX77]

You have no Nitrate and this is made worse by phosphates on the high end at .25.
Nutrients must be both available and in balance for metabolic growth.
Increase nitrates to 5-10ppm and keep phosphates at .25 max, if this increases, you will need to lower phosphates with a GFO to be in the range of 0.03 - .15

I will be increasing my nitrates soon.
I have considered running gfo, I am working on how I will implement it into my system. I will be adding it when I figure that out.

Thank you