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IME white slime is usually from something physically damaging a coral, like when you frag a coral and it slimes up. You dont have a copperbanded butterfly or a hippo tang by chance? If you do just watch those fish and see if they are munching your acans those two I know can develop a taste for lps. I had a blue hippo turn on every lps in my tank and a friend who had a regal yellow belly blue hippo had one do the same thing. Not common but it does happen. That is just no fun I hope you get things turned around!
Agreed, the white slime usually hits freshly cut or damaged polyps. I haven't seen white fungal/bacterial attacks in over 4 years and never on something established.
All I have in the tank is a cardinal, six line wrasse and banded coral shrimp. Nothing else near them that could be affecting them, unless they're all too close to each other?
At this point I've lost about 20 pieces and have about a dozen left...
This can do it.So, I received my results back from aquariumwatertesting.com today. Somehow, my salinity is at 1.030! According to my refracto (calibrated before every use) and a hydrometer it's at 1.026.
Here are my results.
Parameter Test Summary Result Ammonia (NH3-4) Good 0 Nitrite (NO2) Good 0.004 Nitrate (NO3) Good 0.6 Phosphate (PO4) Good 0.05 Silica (Sio2-3) Good 0.4 Potassium (K) Low 183 Ionic Calcium (Ca) Low 98 Molybdenum (Mo) Good 0.1 Strontium (Sr) Good 8 Magnesium (Mg) High 1513 Iodine (I) Good 0.06 Copper (Cu) Good 0.02 Alkalinity (meq/L) Good 2.9 Total Calcium (Ca) Good 435
Noted. Will give it a try. ThanksIt seems like the melting is characteristic of brown jelly infection, which is a bacterial infection that can come from a coral being stressed, or sometimes occurs randomly. The best option is iodine dips and fragging off the healthy parts. The key is preventing it from spreading.
tank age? lighting? flow?Okay, so I'm looking for ANY advice at this point...my acans are melting. For the most part they still have their feeders out but I can see white slimy stuff moving from the outside inward on them and I can blow it off pretty easily.
I've tested all of my parameters (alk, cal, mag, nitrates, po4) and according to my tests they're all in normal ranges. Alk is around 10.5, cal 440, mag 1300 (going to raise to 1400), 0 nitrates and .04 po4. I haven't had any major parm swings. Also sending in a sample to aquariumwatertesting for testing to see if they come up with anything. I'm trying anything at this point.
Any suggestions or ideas would help!