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Rapid tissue necrosis in my purple stylophora (i.e. RTN FTL)

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keithschon

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My really big purple stylo colony started dying back to the skeleton. Don't know what caused it--parameters look great, and I haven't changed anything recently. I managed to make a lot of frags cut well above the RTN (it was a huge colony), and I managed to remove the rest form the tank. Took a lot of nervously swinging a hammer to hit a chisel inside a glass tank while being bitten by an angry clownfish, but I got it. I dosed the tank with prazipro, and dipped all the new frags in Coral Rx, and for that matter I dipped as many other corals as I could easily get out of the tank. So far, I don't see problems with anything else, and the frags look good.

Questions:
- Is there any other treatment I should be doing?
- How long should wait before adding new corals, or before selling or sharing all the frags? I'm guessing after a month with no more symptoms I can be reasonably certain that I'm out of the woods, but is that too short?
 
keithschon said:
My really big purple stylo colony started dying back to the skeleton. Don't know what caused it--parameters look great, and I haven't changed anything recently. I managed to make a lot of frags cut well above the RTN (it was a huge colony), and I managed to remove the rest form the tank. Took a lot of nervously swinging a hammer to hit a chisel inside a glass tank while being bitten by an angry clownfish, but I got it. I dosed the tank with prazipro, and dipped all the new frags in Coral Rx, and for that matter I dipped as many other corals as I could easily get out of the tank. So far, I don't see problems with anything else, and the frags look good.

Questions:
- Is there any other treatment I should be doing?
- How long should wait before adding new corals, or before selling or sharing all the frags? I'm guessing after a month with no more symptoms I can be reasonably certain that I'm out of the woods, but is that too short?
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RTN is Rapid Tissue Necropsy... are you sure its that? It happens quickly, not over an extended period of time.
 
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