Birdsnest RTN

[hafer12]

I had a slimer stn'n on me, from a alk swing, so I cut it after watching it slowly recede for 3 days. I cut it about a 1/2" above the bare skeleton, leaving some flesh. Long story short the flesh is entrusting right back down the dead skeleton.. don't know where I was going with that!?

Slimer is top right, in the last picture

 

[jasonrusso]

All dead tonight. I removed it from the tank. I will get another one and place it further from the acan.

 

[Doubbler]

Definitely the acan. They do have long tenticles. I've come home to see one of my acans trying to swallow a Duncan a few times. Also found another acan with some kind of white spider web thing wrapped around a favia. Killed it over night.

 

[rosshamsandwich]

boy that acan is so close!

 

[Mike Goldstein]

If it changed from one day to the next I would assume it got stung. It does look very close to that acan in the picture. Even if the tentacles can't reach, they can still do chemical warfare.

I agree. The Acan did it

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Could be too close to that acan. Sometime lps filaments can get pretty long. I had a lobo attack a button scoly 3 inches away and killed half over night.

No saying it’s the definite cause, but potential.

I was going to say the same thing. Acan is probably stinging it at night which will quickly kill the birds nest. Move and frag whats still healthy.

 

[Rjohn5499]

I've read that statement several times before, and I don't really agree with it.

Explain the difference between someone with GHA consuming Phosphate and someone with a refugium growing chaeto. Would you say that someone growing chaeto is getting a false test?

What Jason said! :-). Your nitrate and phosphate levels are exactly what they are. Having a refugium, gfo, skimmer, or algae in the tank will help reduce the nutrient levels (that’s what they are there for after all). I agree that if you are reading 0 nitrate it doesn’t mean that you’re not creating it, but that your equipment/algae/feeding schedule is keeping up with the load. If you test your water, and it’s 0, then it’s 0. How does the test know the configuration of a tank? It doesn’t - it’s just telling you the amount in the current sample.