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What can cause SPS to have it flesh melt or rip away?

Apon

Apon

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OK I can't figure this out - I have 2 frags that the tissue have been peeling away...RTN? What can cause this? Most of the SPS I have are ok, some were stressed when I fed Oyster Feast without mixing it water first ( tips spit out their gut threads- did this happen to anyone else?) But I have since ran out of OF so that can't be it.

Strange though the 2 frags affected is a dark Millie from Araman and a blue tip yellow SPS from Ian....sorry guys. Could be your corals like your cleaner water in your tanks... : )

I have done water changes and added Polyfilter to see if any stuff shows up.
 
+1 on the alk, i had a alk issue a few weeks ago and lost a couple of corals exactly how you discribed it. The flesh slowly peeled off. Sucks cause it was one of my favorite coral in the tank.



[quote author=Ocean Treasures Aquarium link=topic=6997.msg91139#msg91139 date=1237704553]
Did you check your Alk and Calcium? What about your lights? Change them?
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I'm also betting your nutrients are very high. When my nutrients are high and I feed a lot rich food I notice the SPS put out a lot more of those filaments. I don't think the problem was not mixing the oyster feast. The problem is feeding those rich foods while having high nutrients.
 
Well was your alk too high? I don't have a test kit handy - I will stop by OTA and check them. Lights are the same. the filaments only happen when I fed OF directly to the tank...haven't had that problem again, but doing more water changes to help with that. Ian you just saw the tank 2 weeks ago at the tour.
 
hmmm last thing I did last week was add 3 female Bartlets...but 1 male jumped out too so I am plus 2 on new fish. Stange that its only happening on these 2 frags ...and my Red Cap from Daniel looked fadded. More water changes I guess until it settles down.
 
the alk issue i had was on the low side. My normal was around 9.5, it dipped around 7. It was due to the CO2 of my calcium reactor and also the sulfur reactor depleted my alk faster.

I would run a parameter check; alk, cal, nitrate and mag.
 
Ok - I had Derek check my alk and it was way low at like 4.....Ian's coral is still alive but not happy....Other coral look ok..actually pretty good. But I will try to raise the alk slowly.
 
That was what Derek got a reading of....but you would think the entire tank was dead...only 2 frags showed signs of serious harm.

Calcium reactor and turbo calcium, but the Co2 valcue was stuck....anyways the clams look good...I think since the alk dropeed slowly they probably got used to it slowyly.

I will buy some clam chowder four you all.
 
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