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I have a story to tell about what I suspect is a bacterial infection that spreads by contact and kills fast but I’m not ready to write that up. Here’s some happy photos for now and I should start a build thread as I have a 120g tank in the works.

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Story Time: The Coral Infection That Spreads By Contact

I'm sharing this in hope it helps someone else one day. I was only able to find a few other posts showing similar issues.

It all starts with these two corals. This photo is from before the first coral attack leading to round 1 of the infection.
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Round 1: 8/31/2021
I woke up in the morning and noticed that a pink mille had attacked the acro next to it. By evening the acro had tissue loss which continued to get worse. That night I cut the branch off to try and stop spreading which worked.

First photo is from 1pm.
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Second photo 9pm after I cut the branch off because it was getting worse.
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Third is from 9/12/2021 showing no further issues from round 1.
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Round 2 "The Infection": 9/18/2021

I don't have photos from 9/18 but I woke up and once again saw the same two corals had attacked each other.

Photo from 9/19/2021 7AM the nasty brown jelly tissue is spreading. I remove infected corals.
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9/19/2021 12:35PM it continues to get worse and spread.
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9/19/2021 1PM these photos show how it spreads out kind of like a wildfire.
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9/19/2021 7PM I pulled out as much as I could of the infected parts.
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9/20/2021 10AM I'm convinced it spreads by contact and pull off the Orange Passion and "Fake" Pearlberry. The top of this rock was so over grown and everything was touching I had lost 9 corals by now. I use super glue to try and create a boarder on the corals I can't pull out and are too close to the infection.
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9/20/2021 5PM a small chunk must have fallen and hit a coral below so I trim out some of those and toss anything that looks infected. Glue is added to anything I can't cut out to cover possible unseen infections
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9/21/2021 12:20pm I notice a little infection on the Setosa but it's so encrusted and impossible to cover everything with glue but I try anyways. Sorry the worst photo.
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9/21/2021 8PM I'm so over this and desperate. I drain out over half the water. Rip out new chunks including healthy parts to get a clear view of the Setosa. Use undiluted peroxide on anything even close to looking infected and at least a half to full inch into healthy tissue. Cover every edge with super glue and refill.
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While it's drained I notice a baby pocillopora that had a small chunk of the infected coral fall and on it. Strong evidence this spreads by contact. None of the coral around it was infected.
Yellow outline: Tiny bit resting on the poci that fell from above the prior day.
Blue outline: Dead pocillopora.
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Lesson Learned:
I wish I would have drained the tank, cut out infected parts, used peroxide and glue to create a bearer from the start. By the end I lost 9 corals and had a very stressful few days. All perimeters were stable for months prior. The infection killed Acropora, Montipora and Pocillopora very fast. If you have something happen like this act fast to stop the spreading and be careful to clean up anything that falls.
 

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The Bryopsis is gone. I struggled with Dino's a little longer but higher nitrates kicked them. I then had an issue where every Montipora was showing tissue regression and limited PE. All numbers were in check so 2 days ago I did a 50% WC and everything seems happy again.

Time for some updated FTS.
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Tank was looking good with just the 2 bars
 
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How many fish do you have in your tank? I only see the remaining clown and a yellow tail damsel in your photos. Any others? I am curious about your fish/feeding/coral ratio.
Sorry I missed this. As of this moment there is two clowns, one yellow tail, one cardinal and one neon dottyback. I’d like more fish but haven’t found the right ones.
 
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I haven’t posted anything since February. I stopped dosing kalk and just dose all for reef the past 4-6 months. Before I was about a 50/50 split between the two. I got tired of refiling kalk. Currently consumption is 1.68dkh per day.

I got two clams from a friend. Tried them in the 120 and it wasn’t stable enough for them but they are thriving in the 40.

At one point the disney had some tissue loss. It was due to a powerhead quitting. I replaced the powerhead and its regrown the lost tissue.

My custom Orphek blue plus bar went out two weeks ago. I rearranged my bar schedule to make up for the loss of one bar. I ordered a reef day violet to replace it since they stopped the customs. I need whites in the center because the old reef day design lacks them and thats why I did a custom. I’m hoping the day violet evens out my white coverage.

Enough talking here’s some orange filter blue light photos.
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Wow that is some serious growth and looks amazing !!!! Looks like some trimming is in order huh lol ?

I was just asking in the Orphek OR3 thread if anyone has used the Violet Reed Day or whatever bar,and tadaaaa !!! I wonder how it will be.
 
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Wow that is some serious growth and looks amazing !!!! Looks like some trimming is in order huh lol ?

I was just asking in the Orphek OR3 thread if anyone has used the Violet Reed Day or whatever bar,and tadaaaa !!! I wonder how it will be.
I couldn’t find good examples of people using it but it should mix well with my two blue plus and one reef day. Or at least I hope so.
 

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I haven't seen ANY examples lol. Please post some pics of it when it comes in. I would love to get a few of these whenever I come into some monies. Maybe tax return time I will snag a few.

I would like a Violet Plus,Blue Plus to supplement my t5's since right now my led array I built provides enough par for lps and softies.
 

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