Corals are dying, looks like infection.

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So couple days ago, I has stylophora doing rtn, when I tried to save it, I found blown looking jelly, on dead skeleton, now coral that was right next to it looks like is being effected also, its brown but dosent look like stylophora had. Ill attach pictures.
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I dont want to blame parameters just yet, because my system has about 100 other corals that doing ok, if anything to blame that would be this frogspawn that I got about 3 weeks ago from skellyfest here in florida from one of the vendors
 
I read that BJD can also effect sps corals, and it looks alot like BJD, jugging by pictures in internet,
Do I have BJD that came from that new frogspawn, even though this frogspawn is not effected by it?
 
BJD is something that can pop up and I’m sure exists in all water.

Just looks like dead flesh on the stylo.

Do you have parameters?
 
Im not to worried about those 2 corals, im just afraid for it not to go over to other way more expensive corals.
 
So couple days ago, I has stylophora doing rtn, when I tried to save it, I found blown looking jelly, on dead skeleton, now coral that was right next to it looks like is being effected also, its brown but dosent look like stylophora had. Ill attach pictures.
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Oh, I’m really sorry to hear that. I can imagine how discouraging it must feel. Here in Korea, a fellow reefer I know went through something similar, their corals were peeling and the whole system looked like it was crashing. They started dosing a product called The1 to balance trace elements, alkalinity, and pH, and over time the tank slowly recovered. I don’t know where you’re located, but seeing what’s happening with your corals honestly makes me wish I could send you a bottle myself. I really hope things turn around for you soon. If you ever seriously want to try it, just let me know, I can find a way to send it to you. That product, The1, really felt like it handled everything at once. It helped keep alkalinity, calcium, magnesium, and all the key parameters stable. I dosed it one capful at a time. For now, I’d suggest fragging off the damaged parts and focusing on stabilizing the system. Test all your parameters, alkalinity, pH, calcium, magnesium and try to make adjustments slowly. Don’t forget calcium and magnesium are just as important! Ah, I just saw the picture of your water parameters. Nothing looks particularly wrong, but I wonder if there might have been some swings, maybe in temperature, salinity, or something like that. And you should also check your testing equipment. Try measuring with another device and see if the results match. It might also be due to other trace elements, so it’s worth checking those too. I know it must be tough, hang in there!
 
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I’d guess flow myself since those are so dense and it’s pretty common once they grow up to just ghost.. it’s really hard to say if it’s bacterial and I’ve never heard of bjd affecting acros.. that’s a new one to me.
 
Thank you guys, ill just observe for now, below is bigger tank shot, not current, probably several months ago, but shows location of above corals,
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Something definitely taking out my corals one by one, this morning noticed my wild mili that I had for 7 years, gone. Stag starting to lose tissue, I think i need to send icp. ...what rver this is its only effecting my sps.
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