Strawberry shortcake bleached overnight

Nick92515 · Apr 2, 2017

So i woke up this morning to my ssc bleached out.
Got it about a week ago, was on the sand bed for a week, had good Pe, few days ago i moved it up to the spot where i was gonna glue it, then this morning, all white...

Have about 10 other sps all doing great. Only running black boxs at blue 100%, white 20%(lowest setting)

FLAdaboy · Apr 2, 2017

Is your return near that piece?

Nick92515 · Apr 2, 2017

No not really, atleast 8 inches maybe 10. Theres a bonsai frag mini colony in between the return and the ssc.

Only thing i can think of is the bonsai was about 2.5 inches away from the ssc, maybe some warefare? Idk.

FLAdaboy · Apr 2, 2017

Maybe. Kinda weird that was the only one.

Wildcats1023 · Apr 2, 2017

I have terrible luck with ssc too. All other sps have great color and PE. I've had frags and colonies. I'm running black boxes too but also happened when I had T5's

Reefnub · Apr 3, 2017

From the pic, it actually looks like it rtn'd overnight and died.
If it was bleached, you would still see some pigments and polyps.

OnPointCorals · Apr 3, 2017

Doesn't look bleached it looks like it's dead? Did you see flesh come off. RTN?

Ryanaquarium · Apr 3, 2017

Looks like rtn

coralbeauties · Apr 3, 2017

Its rtn. SSC must be good for that. geversole01 above lost his and I too lost mine almost overnight. I found my loss was due to my refractometer being out of calibration and my salinity being all the way down to 1.019. Always calibrate with calibration fluid not ro/di water.
jeff

Acro maniac · Apr 3, 2017

Ssc are one of the more sensitive acros imo stability in all levels is necessary for success. I lost one recently do to switching the type of salt i use . While maintaining all testable levels.

Nick92515 · Apr 5, 2017

Yeah, theres is nothing left. No flesh what so ever. Maybe bleached isnt the best word, flesh disappeared over night. I manually top off, i wonder if i topped off to close to it and it shocked it with the temporary salinity change.

Donovan Joannes · Apr 5, 2017

Some acros do commit suicide for no apparent reason. IME, RTN happens on newly arrived SPS only. Do not top off directly into DT, do it in the sump if you have one. If not, do it slowly.