LPS Slow Tissue Necrosis

[izzyishh]

Hello I need some help with my beautiful acan garden. I have lost about 50% of it in the last month. I am not 100% sure what the issue may be. I know for sure it is not brown jelly. I do know its some sort of bacterial infection makes be believe it is Slow Tissue Necrosis. Tissue loss begins on the rim of the acan head and then starts to spread to the rest of the colony issue is almost all my colonies are effected. I have done multiple Medi Coral dips "iodine" with no luck I will be doing a dip with Polyp Labs Reef-primer in hopes to save some of my acans. Does any one have any recommendations with this or has anyone dealt with this issue in the past and won?

Tank:
Cal 420
Alk 8
Mag 1350
NO3 4
PO4 0-.15

Light:
Kessil a360 has been dimmed since the issue began

Nothing has been added or changed to the tank.

Thank You All!

 

[izzyishh]

#reefsquad

 

[I luv coralz]

Any pics?

 

[izzyishh]

Any pics?

I will take some today when I do the Primer dip. It started on the bottom of the colonies so it took a while before i noticed i was loosing heads since the top heads still inflate and puff up. Tissue lose on the individual heads begins on the rim then spreads till it kills the entire head and moves on to the next

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Have you noticed any other odd things in the tank? Algaes , corraline , etc?

 

[izzyishh]

Since I started the Medi Coral dips I have gotten some light diatoms on the sand bed but nothing out the norm its a 29g bicube I do 10g water changes weekly.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Any gfo? Chem media , and high med or low flow?

 

[S-t-r-e-t-c-h]

Also, what's your feeding regimen? With low nutrient systems, they need supplemental feeding for sure...

 

[izzyishh]

Only thing I run are the biocube filters with carbon.
I target feed all my LPS Reefroids and LPS pellets 1-2 times a week

 

[drawman]

I would also try feeding them to see if they respond. You may want to try a diluted H202 dip as well. Is something nipping at them?

Do you have other coral in this tank that is doing well and growing?

 

[izzyishh]

Acans get low-medium flow i have a MP10 on random mode

 

[izzyishh]

Yeah My gold torch just split my Fat head dendros are popping babies duncans are popping heads. Fish in the tank gold arcessor, yellow wrasse, and a randol goby

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

acans and shrooms have always hated me. Zoas finally are tolerant, Xenia fear me , and NPS like my style, But....

Funny isn’t it?

 

[izzyishh]

Guess not many people get hit with this issue......

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Guess not many people get hit with this issue......

It’s early on a Thursday. Bump it with pics about 4pm EST.

 

[Kilo]

Following. I am also having the same problem. Was recommended to dip as well

 

[vetteguy53081]

Feeding is a must for mine as is potassium and aminos such as Seachem fuel and brightwell aminos. I have mine in moderate flow closer to the blues and they multiply like mice

 

[Lonely reefer's]

Isn’t 10%wc weekly too much?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Depending on volume - no. I would say bi-weekly to tri-weekly and moderate on feeding.

 

[rosshamsandwich]

mine did this when my alk dropped too low...