Will the death spread?

[Leadfooted]

I had a frag of and Oregon tort fall off a rock and it landed on my Frogskin Acro. This morning the portion where the Oregon was touching the Frogskin is dead. Will this spread or now that I’ve moved the Oregon tort, will the Frogskin recover? You can barely tell but the circled portions total bleached white.

 

[Reeferdood]

I would clip the dead branches since algae will likely grow there.

 

[declanisadog]

I doubt it would spread. I would still probably clip the dead part, but mainly for aesthetics.

 

[Leadfooted]

I would clip the dead branches since algae will likely grow there.

Thank you as I did not think of that. I'll trim what I can tonight.

 

[Leadfooted]

Well, unfortunaltey it didn’t make it over night. It was the largest acro I’ve grown to date, nothing massive but an accomplishment for me. I fragged a few pieces and stuck a larger piece where the mother colony grew originally. Fingers crossed one of the frags makes it. I just snipped and superglued with a prayer lol

 

[BadPanda]

Sorry for your loss. I actually had the same thing happen to my red dragon and torch. I think luckily, I mightt have caught it in time for the acro to not completely die. After that incident, I'm now contemplating about just focusing on a SPS dominant and set up a LPS with another tank.

 

[tigé21v]

I would dip any frags you are trying to save in Melafix and/or lugol's. If there's vibrio in your tank, it will wipe them out for sure.
I just lost three of my colonies. Pulled, cut frags to try to save, no luck. Lost them all in a matter of days.
I've had good success with Melafix in the past, but not this time.
After the fact, I looked at the bottle, and the Melafix had expired.

 

[Leadfooted]

So what gives? Both frags I placed on plugs died, luckily the frag I glued to the rock seems happy. Oddly enough, a tiny spec of a frag that fell to the sand beds also super happy with its one polyp out lol. Anyways, any thoughts on why the frags I glued to the plugs died and others lived?

 

[tigé21v]

That's what happened to mine.
The bacteria had already spread to the healthy tissue.
It was noticeable on my loripes colony when I pulled it out and had it sitting next to the tank. Only the blues and actinic were on, amd you could tell how far the infection had gone. It was bizarre

 

[Leadfooted]

That's what happened to mine.
The bacteria had already spread to the healthy tissue.
It was noticeable on my loripes colony when I pulled it out and had it sitting next to the tank. Only the blues and actinic were on, amd you could tell how far the infection had gone. It was bizarre

I was wondering if that was the case. Next time I'll try to trim a little closer to the edges when trying to spare a few frags. What about dips to help recovery would that have helped?

 

[tigé21v]

I was wondering if that was the case. Next time I'll try to trim a little closer to the edges when trying to spare a few frags. What about dips to help recovery would that have helped?

I had luck in the past with just melafix.
This time I tried both melafix and lugols. Still lost them all.
I think it was a combination of expired melafix, waiting too long to start treatment, mad not fragging some from the get-go