Lps receding

[Fr0stguard]

Hello,

Over the past few months I've had a new issue of random lps of all different species (all were doing great before the issue) slowly receding till they hit critical mass and just completely disappear. My sps (montis and acros) are doing great with inches of growth a month on all of them and no die off. My first reaction would be my nitrates or phosphates but some of the corals that are doing great are some that were added with it high and some were added before it was high and are the same species. It seems to be random which will do bad next. My parameters are as follows.

Cal: 430
Alk: 9.4 - 9.8
Mg: 1400
Nitrate: 30-40 (been like that for over two years. Been dosing nopox for 2 weeks with little effect on it)
Phosphate: .08
Ammonia: 0
Nitrite: 0

I've tried feeding reefroids more often to the ones who aren't doing good and they eat but keep receding. Any help would be appreciated. In a perfect world it will be as simply as a dosable medication or something but I know it won't be that easy lol.

Thank you
Cody

 

[Flippers4pups]

Sorry that they are struggling. What LPS are we talking about, torches, hammers, lobos.....etc?

Did you notice any brown jelly looking stuff coming out of them?

 

[khushtram]

Water change water change water change. Get those nitrates down. Stop over feeding reef roids. And maybe possible too much flow ?

 

[Mjrenz]

I would suspect the nopox may be the culprit, it sounds a lot like vibrant which nearly wiped out all my lps and sps when I used the dosage recommended by the manufacturer. I stopped using it and a few days later my corals started coming back. The owner of my lfs told me that the bacteria it fostered was out competing the zooxanthellae in my corals

 

[Fr0stguard]

Sorry that they are struggling. What LPS are we talking about, torches, hammers, lobos.....etc?

Did you notice any brown jelly looking stuff coming out of them?

It's all of my species. I have euphyllia, duncans, trachy's, favias, chalices and lobos. I didn't personally see brown jelly but it's not to say it doesnt happen over night where I can't see it.

 

[Fr0stguard]

I would suspect the nopox may be the culprit, it sounds a lot like vibrant which nearly wiped out all my lps and sps when I used the dosage recommended by the manufacturer. I stopped using it and a few days later my corals started coming back. The owner of my lfs told me that the bacteria it fostered was out competing the zooxanthellae in my corals

The issues started a month or so before I started nopox

 

[Neo Jeo]

I been dosing vibrant for about 2 months. My lps also have been receding. Some of my zoas have not opened. Could that be the issue? My plate coral is now dieing.

 

[Flippers4pups]

I personally don't spot feed my LPS and I have what most would say high nutrients in my system. N03 at 30-40 and P04 at .1 and mine are growing machines. Aside from a possibility of contaminates in the water, which would effect all your coral, I say stop feeding them directly and discontinue the nopox for now and let's see if they rebound.

 

[BeejReef]

All I know comes from youtube, but if sps are doing fantastic and lps are struggling, could it be that you've pushed the boundaries on light and/or flow too far into SPS territory?

 

[Mjrenz]

I been dosing vibrant for about 2 months. My lps also have been receding. Some of my zoas have not opened. Could that be the issue? My plate coral is now dieing.

I'd be willing to bet money it is. As soon as I stopped using it I noticed improvements but unfortunately there was a lot of damage done. I lost a few corals but everything that made it through is very slowly recovering. Here's a picture of my green plate that almost died and the orange plate that did die. The second picture is of the same green plate about three months after I stopped using vibrant

 

[Mjrenz]

The issues started a month or so before I started nopox

Could be a combination of everything above, too much light or flow and maybe spot feeding and nopox is making it worse

 

[Fr0stguard]

I personally don't spot feed my LPS and I have what most would say high nutrients in my system. N03 at 30-40 and P04 at .1 and mine are growing machines. Aside from a possibility of contaminates in the water, which would effect all your coral, I say stop feeding them directly and discontinue the nopox for now and let's see if they rebound.

The nopox hasn't had any visible effect on anything so far as I can tell. I had slow recession of flesh on lps easily 1 to 2 months before. Nitrate was just my last thing I could look at aside from some hidden contaminant or infection that maybe affects lps more than sps. The spot feeding only happens when it starts to recede to try and slow it which it does but never saves the coral sadly. I just sent off a icp test so I'll see if it's some hidden element

 

[millerfishes]

The nopox hasn't had any visible effect on anything so far as I can tell. I had slow recession of flesh on lps easily 1 to 2 months before. Nitrate was just my last thing I could look at aside from some hidden contaminant or infection that maybe affects lps more than sps. The spot feeding only happens when it starts to recede to try and slow it which it does but never saves the coral sadly. I just sent off a icp test so I'll see if it's some hidden element

Hey Frostguard, if you're still around, did that ICP test show anything? I have a 125 at about 1.5 years old. Massive growth on SPS. Some really delicate ones. LPS...about half are receding. Parameters check out very similar to yours. My nutrients usually read near zero but I have a fuge, so that's kind of expected.