Conquering STN/RTN. What has worked for you?

JasonC. · Jun 30, 2021

I was battling RTN/ STN a few months ago. I did the Witch Hazel method and water changes. After about 3 weeks of the treatment almost everything stopped RTNing, and started to look much better. I was dosing 20ml of the Witch Hazel in my 100 gallon tank every night before my lights went of.
People says that it's snake oil, but I did see good results using it.
Good luck.

Ftrain576 · Jun 30, 2021

JasonC. said:
I was battling RTN/ STN a few months ago. I did the Witch Hazel method and water changes. After about 3 weeks of the treatment almost everything stopped RTNing, and started to look much better. I was dosing 20ml of the Witch Hazel in my 100 gallon tank every night before my lights went of.
People says that it's snake oil, but I did see good results using it.
Good luck.

Quick question…how did you calculate the amount of Witch Hazel to dose?

Ftrain576 · Jun 30, 2021

Received my ATI test results today. Here are their recommendations. I have not experienced any new STN events in my tank to remaining SPS corals that could not be removed. I guess it was either the passage of time or the Koral Recover. Maybe a combination of the two. Guess I will have to wait and see. Sunday will be the end of treatment followed by a 20 percent water change. Keeping my fingers crossed that the event is in remission.

bdare · Jul 6, 2021

Ftrain576 said:
Was the vodka used to manage your phosphates?

No. The vodka was added as a food source for the microbacter to get it to multiply and outcompete the bad stuff that was in there.

Ftrain576 · Jul 6, 2021

bdare said:
No. The vodka was added as a food source for the microbacter to get it to multiply and outcompete the bad stuff that was in there.

Gotcha.Thanks

truetricia · Sep 8, 2021

So I occasionally have had STN that creeps up the corals. Sometimes the causes are obvious, swings in tank parameters, etc. Other times not so much. I've had decent luck with using coral glue at the edge of the tissue damage and saving the coral tissue above. It seems to be like placing a tourniquet around the wound. I won't pretend it's always worked, but I have had some success with it, so it's anecdotal at best.