Sps help

thesoulpatch · Jun 29, 2019

My WD has rtn but didnt this morning all that has happened the whole week is i did a water change today. Help!

Its probs gonna be dead by tmw :/

Nitrate is 2ish
Phosphate is 1
Alk is 10
Calc is 450
Mag is 1300

Bad picture but yeah

It ges from the bottom and spreads all over and I cant frag it without getting dead skeleton.

I also had good polpy extension too

Big G · Jun 30, 2019

P-Dub · Jun 30, 2019

If it has been occurring over a week that would be STN. If there is still viable tissue by the time you read this then get some epoxy putty and completely cover all the margins where there is skeleton and healthy tissue meeting. Leave the healthy tissue alone. This is your best last-ditch at this point. It would have worked better earlier but so long as there is healthy tissue and a polyp or two still viable, you have a chance. I have done this a number of times and it works well.
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thesoulpatch · Jun 30, 2019

Thanks, for the tip I'll try it if I'm ever allowed to get another one.

actually all 3 of my acro colonies got wiped out this weekend. So kinda sad. They all died overnight. Pretty sure someone put something in the tank and has yet to fess up to it...as they know the wrath will be brought down on them...

thesoulpatch · Jun 30, 2019

Actually the loss of tissue was from friday to sunday. It wiped out my WD a birdsnest colony about the size of a baseball and another acro colony the size of a softball this weekend. So it went from happy to flesh falling off... sad weekend.

P-Dub · Jun 30, 2019

thesoulpatch said:
Thanks, for the tip I'll try it if I'm ever allowed to get another one. actually all 3 of my acro colonies got wiped out this weekend. So kinda sad. They all died overnight. Pretty sure someone put something in the tank and has yet to fess up to it...as they know the wrath will be brought down on them...

It was the dog. It's always the dogs' fault...

P-Dub · Jun 30, 2019

thesoulpatch said:
Actually the loss of tissue was from friday to sunday. It wiped out my WD a birdsnest colony about the size of a baseball and another acro colony the size of a softball this weekend. So it went from happy to flesh falling off... sad weekend.

Yup, that'd be RTN. Nothing you can do other than frag and hope for that.

kireek · Jul 1, 2019

Sorry for your troubles. I hope things stabilize for you soon.

vetteguy53081 · Jul 1, 2019

Dip in Peroxide solution and super glue the dead area. Should survive and even encrust around dead area

LOVEROCK · Jul 3, 2019

What salt water to peroxide ratio

vetteguy53081 · Jul 3, 2019

LOVEROCK said:
What salt water to peroxide ratio

Peroxide 3:1

Sarah24! · Jul 3, 2019

Hello,

Hope things get better but reading your parameters kinda gave me a second thought. With low nutrients you want lower alk and calcium so between 7-8 alk and 420-440 cal. If your all dropped or calcium dropped or spiked that will cause your corals to do this. Another is your magnesium is pretty low, most sps wants 1350, and sps dominant go at 1390 normally. Sps are super sensitive, heat change of the tank, salinity change, nutrient change or trace element change can cause them to brown out and or stn or rtn. Even changing your lighting up or down (if it’s a lot will make them stress out). I would guess it’s safer to assume one of these caused this, instead of one sabataging your tank. I have lost sps colonies like this in 8 hours because of a salinity drop and the day prior they were extremely healthy. I would definitely test water and how are the fish doing and other corals? If it was sabataged it would affect other corals as well softies and lps and fish? Any issues with the others or just sps? If it’s just sps, then I would think you had a major parameter swing. Did you check and see if you had aefw?