LPS Slow Tissue Necrosis

[rosshamsandwich]

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

Funny isn’t it?

is there some stn on the base?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

is there some stn on the base?

Just Total shade. Most folks don’t look under their colonies.
It’s a foot tall and a over ten in wide.

 

[rosshamsandwich]

you are running LEDS?

 

[rosshamsandwich]

wait your hand is over a foot long?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

wait your hand is over a foot long?

you are running LEDS?

Yea led. My hand is four inches from the coral in the tank. My hand is 8 in long.

What do the bottoms of the sps coral that big at the bottom of your tank look like?

I had to take this one out of that tank.

 

[izzyishh]

Quick update guys for any one here follow. I did a dip with Polyp Labs Reef Primer also I have lowered the flow and I have dialed down my lights again I will be target feeding all acans with reef roids and LPS pellets.

 

[izzyishh]

Here is a picture before the tissue loss on my acans i will post multiple pictures of the the acans when i was dipping them.

 

[tricounty1]

Pull the carbon

 

[dallast]

Have had this same issue for years. Never know the cause. Attributed to poor maintenance. I hope some others chime in here with some ideas

 

[Casey-Reef]

Following for more info

 

[Lonely reefer's]

It happened to my acans and chalice while back when i set up a 29g biocube with a 5g wc weekly.
Is your ALK reading before or after wc?

 

[rosshamsandwich]

what is the carbon doing negatively?

 

[rstrann]

I'm thinking those big water changes are stripping your nutrients to a point they're starving. Just my gut instinct on this, probably because I've been guilty of the same thing. Who would've thought macroalgae could be so darn effective?? Good move on the light schedule and ramping up feedings. I'd chill with those water changes for a while. I've got a sumpless 29 fully stocked with lps and softies and I only do a 2 gallon wc once every two months. Carbon bag in the back. Even got a football sized porite in there and he's happy.

 

[rosshamsandwich]

what do you mean by "nutrients" exactly? which things are being stripped?

 

[martin]

Low nutrients

 

[martin]

Low nutrients you need to up them

 

[martin]

Phosphates and nitrates

 

[martin]

Starving corals

 

[martin]

I had same issue my lps were dying off I started using aminos and started feeding a little more my nitrates and phosphates kept on coming zero specially after my water change it would take a week for them just to go up a bit but My phosphates kept at zero I was told to increase my phosphates and nitrates

 

[martin]

https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/dr-joshi’s-500-gallon-sps-dominated-mixed-reef.2/
This guy has a video
Look up this guy he has a lot of knowledge