Acropora slimer issue

[Troylee]

Not to shame anyone, but acros don’t have bright white tip growth. I’ve just come across this thread and I think lighting might be the issue on this piece.

Your slimer is STN’ing, do you have any other acros in the tank?

It’s been a week so this issue may have been solved already but I would like to offer advice if it hasn’t been yet

That’s false! I have a few with white growth tips including a slimer… bill murray, wwc after party and my slimer just to show a couple.

 

[UMALUM]

I guess my whole tank is stn ing. :frowning-face:

 

[Matt Bravo]

It’s not bright white, but do your thing I guess..

 

[Matt Bravo]

Also I was just trying to help seen as your guys mislead op…

 

[Matt Bravo]

Curious as to what you would consider this?

Transparent/ bright blue tips is what I would consider that

 

[X-37B]

All my stags from my 120 have white growth tips.
Green slimer
Purple slimer
Army slimer
Surf and Turf

Just keep an eye on yours. If you get brown algae growth on the tips then its stn.
Looks like growth to me.

 

[IKD]

I would add new growth typically shows polyps before full coloration. OP pics look like erosion of existing flesh. I would re-look at the PAR values. 170 is pretty low light reading. Is that the same lighting it was in the seller’s tank?

 

[tbrown]

Necrosis at the tips can be from higher alk and low phosphates. Not saying that's the issue since Alk is only 8.3 but it's always a possibility.

 

[moosevandyke]

Also I was just trying to help seen as your guys mislead op…

Nobody mislead the op everyone just giving thoughts on what it could be and the folks who said growth seem to have a lot of experience with sps… do you grow a lot of sps?

 

[Biff0rz]

Curious as to what you would consider this?

A colony with growth tips.

As to OP's situation, a new frag, not encrusted, and multiple tips turning white... Very likely stn.

 

[Biff0rz]

Nobody mislead the op everyone just giving thoughts on what it could be and the folks who said growth seem to have a lot of experience with sps… do you grow a lot of sps?

Not the person you asked but I grow a lot of sps, that said, I've also killed a TON of them before I was successful. OP's look like many I've killed.

 

[UMALUM]

Not the person you asked but I grow a lot of sps, that said, I've also killed a TON of them before I was successful. OP's look like many I've killed.

Being that your seasoned in stn literally in reverse I'm all ears. Like previously mentioned, usually it's those who walk the line low with screaming alk who encounter true burnt tips. The OP has low light, mid alk, and plenty of nutrients all of which would not cause what you claim but in most cases the opposite.



The tips on this usually shoot bleach white then over the coarse of a week turn blue then pick before it repeats. I'm starting to wonder how I got suckered into this abortion.

 

[Biff0rz]

Being that your seasoned in stn literally in reverse I'm all ears. Like previously mentioned, usually it's those who walk the line low with screaming alk who encounter true burnt tips. The OP has low light, mid alk, and plenty of nutrients all of which would not cause what you claim but in most cases the opposite.



The tips on this usually shoot bleach white then over the coarse of a week turn blue then pick before it repeats. I'm starting to wonder how I got suckered into this abortion.

I guess we'll see once he posts an update. I got a beer on a dead coral.

 

[UMALUM]

I guess we'll see once he posts an update. I got a beer on a dead coral.

I'll take your beer and raise you a bottle of crown that when he kills it it'll be from the bottom up. :face-with-tongue: Probably a good chance the new growth displayed occurred previous to his ownership.

 

[moosevandyke]

I guess we'll see once he posts an update. I got a beer on a dead coral.

I like this! :) I got a beer on growth tips.

 

[IKD]

I'll take your beer and raise you a bottle of crown that when he kills it it'll be from the bottom up. :face-with-tongue: Probably a good chance the new growth displayed occurred previous to his ownership.

I hope there’s an update. This picture. Zoomed in at the tips, appears to show a film spread across the white tips

 

[Bryant1991]

Looks like STN.

 

[moosevandyke]

The film makes me nervous hahah but it’s at night so…

 

[IKD]

The film makes me nervous hahah but it’s at night so…

I’m rooting for success but …

 

[Biff0rz]

Funny, this came up on my timeline....it looks almost like OP's slimer and 'growth'. Want to guess what happened to this frag? Hint, I now have a new slimer ;)