Green birdsnest dying

[RickG]

Hey out of nowhere my green birdsnest of about 1.5- 2 years is dying. I have had the colony for a while and not sure what's the problem. Stable parameters and other corals are fine. Only thing I could think of is that I fragged it last week; only clipped off an inch.

 

[RickG]

Pic of it right now, plan on fragging it and salvaging what I can. I saw it die of a bit in the back where I fragged it from last time but spread quickly in a day

 

[RickG]

Parameters
Alk: 9.6
Cal: 405
Mag: 1410

Test yesterday using salifert

 

[RickG]

:(

 

[wesman42]

What's your livestock? Is anything else in the tank dying rapidly?

 

[Katrina71]

Oh no. That's terrible. I'm so sorry.

 

[Katrina71]

This may sound strange, but if you sell your skeleton, I'd be interested.

 

[Jmas4]

This has happened to me before. My birdnest is growing then all of a sudden... death. I believe it has to do with flow. As the corals grow, the center recieves less and less flow leading to tissue necrosis and then rapidly spreads.

Good luck and Happy Reefing

 

[RickG]

Just spent about 4 hours fragging lol, update you guys tomorrow! Currently 5:35 am. The things we do for this hobby

 

[DesertReefT4r]

I would say this may have been a flow issue. Large BN need to be blasted with strong wide random flow.

 

[RickG]

Not sure what it was but pretty sure it wasn't livestock. It can possibly flow, but I have an mp40 on one side, gyre 3k on the other and two jebao pp4s on the back. I'll try to up the settings on them a bit now. I made a whole bunch of frags yesterday, hopefully they'll do good and I can restart my colony. It just sucks lol but it is what it is.