If you've had a similar experience or any tips going forward to prevent additional STN/RTN, let me know! Hopefully the carbon and water changes are enough to stop any additional tissue necrosis.
Currently having a pretty sudden problem out of nowhere. I’m used to my 30 gallon (acro dominant), where I test out once a month and adjust my two-part accordingly. Feed fish and check salinity. Always had great color and growth. Right now I also have a 50 cube that I’m going to be upgrading soon to 100. However, two weeks ago the Stylophoras in both of my tanks died within 2 days. Complete RTN. My peach ACTUAL purple OG Ora digitata colony has also started to stn. Possibly in the delayed response as somethings are starting to come back. Really not sure what happened. I suspect that while I was doing quarantine with copper, I must’ve used the same water from fish feeding, probably more than I realize now. Carbon and water changes in both tanks. One thing I have always found to be particularly helpful is “signal” organisms. Corals that will only truly extend when micro nutrients and macros are optimal. Such as a blue ridge coral. Normally they are mute brown, but when elements are optimal, they will display for fluffy white polyp extension that’s hard to miss. Same thing with inverts, my serpent star hasent melted so we’re good there lol
@@bruhman8005 yeah I have a few signal acros. The SPS game is very unforgiving but rewarding. I’d double check your equipment just to be sure, could be copper but I noticed stylos and birdsnest really don’t like alk swings. I have lots lots of them to alk swings when acropora couldnt care less
You should do an ICP test to confirm metals if that is the cause. If they are indeed elevated, run a load of Cuprisorb. I always ran into issues whenever my tanks grew out with large colonies if I got busy and didn’t feed a ridiculous amount. The amount of po4 that these colonies consume is mind blowing. If your po4 is running very low, start feeding reef roids regularly. Test your po4 often and watch how fast it’s consumed. A .2 drop in a day is pretty normal with fast growing large colonies. If this is the cause, the neurosis will stop in its tracks immediately.
@@jackson6745 funny enough, I don’t do ICP but got a free triton kit and sent it out 2 days before this. So it will be interesting to see. Not a nutrient issue as my phos is 0.1ppm and nitrate ~10ppm and I feed heavy. I’m not an ICPer since the remedy is do more water changes if the metals are high… so I’ll just do more water changes anyways and skip the middle man. But I already had the freebie out so interesting to see what happens
Sorry man! This type of experience can take such a mental toll on us. I appreciate you sharing and documenting this. Luckily/hopefully, the heater is the issue. I may would also mail off an icp just to have it going just in case the issue persists over the next couple weeks or to see if it picks up any metals on the result. When it comes to STN/RTN, I'm like you...lots of water changes, carbon, and just try to let it ride. I don't really get in there and start fragging unless I have to.
Thanks for the comment. Even though I have probably thousands in corals in here, I am pretty calm mentally. Whenever I run an SPS tank, I always treat it like a ticking time-bomb even tho I have never had a major crash in the last 17 years. So if things die, that's PAR for the SPS course, lol. Hopefully this will remind someone to check their equipment and avoid a disaster. Coincidentally, I am not an ICP guy, but I won one from a raffle and just sent it off on monday for a "baseline" guess that will not be a baseline, but should help me determine if metals are/were the issue. I don't want to start fragging to save things since its not leaving the contaminated water, so I will do several water changes and I added a small amount of ROX 0.8 carbon (didn't want to go overboard since I don't usually run carbon.) Otherwise I will stay the normal course to not put the corals thru additional changes.
I will be honest, I hate seeing corals suffer and then find something I could have prevented... but at the same time, I did get a big sense of relief when I found the heater. Nothing worse than not finding any clues to why. Now I am just going to pray the minimal damage has stopped lol.
Sorry to hear this, I had an acro rtn during the week there out of nowhere so going to do some tests and a water change. What percent water change did you do?
I did a 10% the day before (routine) and did Just over 10% after finding this… I don’t have the capacity to do more in my condo so I’ll do water changes every day for a few days. Carbon should help too.
Typically no, because if it comes back hot for metals I would do water changes to bring it back to normal… so I’m just going to assume I need to do water changes and save the price of an ICP… however, I won a triton ICP from unique corals so I ended up sending it off as a baseline on Monday, before I realized there was an issue
![[#2024MAMA] ROSÉ (로제), Bruno Mars - APT. | Mnet 241122 방송](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dgGqD28J6aQ/mqdefault.jpg)
![[#2024MAMA] BIGBANG (빅뱅) - 뱅뱅뱅 (BANG BANG BANG) + FANTASTIC BABY | Mnet 241123 방송](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EQsYfiPR9uM/mqdefault.jpg)
If you've had a similar experience or any tips going forward to prevent additional STN/RTN, let me know! Hopefully the carbon and water changes are enough to stop any additional tissue necrosis.
Currently having a pretty sudden problem out of nowhere. I’m used to my 30 gallon (acro dominant), where I test out once a month and adjust my two-part accordingly. Feed fish and check salinity. Always had great color and growth. Right now I also have a 50 cube that I’m going to be upgrading soon to 100. However, two weeks ago the Stylophoras in both of my tanks died within 2 days. Complete RTN. My peach ACTUAL purple OG Ora digitata colony has also started to stn. Possibly in the delayed response as somethings are starting to come back.
Really not sure what happened. I suspect that while I was doing quarantine with copper, I must’ve used the same water from fish feeding, probably more than I realize now. Carbon and water changes in both tanks.
One thing I have always found to be particularly helpful is “signal” organisms. Corals that will only truly extend when micro nutrients and macros are optimal. Such as a blue ridge coral. Normally they are mute brown, but when elements are optimal, they will display for fluffy white polyp extension that’s hard to miss. Same thing with inverts, my serpent star hasent melted so we’re good there lol
@@bruhman8005 yeah I have a few signal acros. The SPS game is very unforgiving but rewarding. I’d double check your equipment just to be sure, could be copper but I noticed stylos and birdsnest really don’t like alk swings. I have lots lots of them to alk swings when acropora couldnt care less
You should do an ICP test to confirm metals if that is the cause. If they are indeed elevated, run a load of Cuprisorb.
I always ran into issues whenever my tanks grew out with large colonies if I got busy and didn’t feed a ridiculous amount. The amount of po4 that these colonies consume is mind blowing. If your po4 is running very low, start feeding reef roids regularly. Test your po4 often and watch how fast it’s consumed. A .2 drop in a day is pretty normal with fast growing large colonies. If this is the cause, the neurosis will stop in its tracks immediately.
@@jackson6745 funny enough, I don’t do ICP but got a free triton kit and sent it out 2 days before this. So it will be interesting to see. Not a nutrient issue as my phos is 0.1ppm and nitrate ~10ppm and I feed heavy. I’m not an ICPer since the remedy is do more water changes if the metals are high… so I’ll just do more water changes anyways and skip the middle man. But I already had the freebie out so interesting to see what happens
@@NBurgReef well I hope you find some definitive answer. We will all learn from it. I’m with you on the water changes. Good luck!
Dang man...across are beautiful...good luck. It's a battle...press on
Sorry man! This type of experience can take such a mental toll on us. I appreciate you sharing and documenting this. Luckily/hopefully, the heater is the issue. I may would also mail off an icp just to have it going just in case the issue persists over the next couple weeks or to see if it picks up any metals on the result. When it comes to STN/RTN, I'm like you...lots of water changes, carbon, and just try to let it ride. I don't really get in there and start fragging unless I have to.
Thanks for the comment. Even though I have probably thousands in corals in here, I am pretty calm mentally. Whenever I run an SPS tank, I always treat it like a ticking time-bomb even tho I have never had a major crash in the last 17 years. So if things die, that's PAR for the SPS course, lol. Hopefully this will remind someone to check their equipment and avoid a disaster.
Coincidentally, I am not an ICP guy, but I won one from a raffle and just sent it off on monday for a "baseline" guess that will not be a baseline, but should help me determine if metals are/were the issue. I don't want to start fragging to save things since its not leaving the contaminated water, so I will do several water changes and I added a small amount of ROX 0.8 carbon (didn't want to go overboard since I don't usually run carbon.) Otherwise I will stay the normal course to not put the corals thru additional changes.
Wow. Glad you were able to catch this on time. Hopefully, everything gets back to normal.
I will be honest, I hate seeing corals suffer and then find something I could have prevented... but at the same time, I did get a big sense of relief when I found the heater. Nothing worse than not finding any clues to why. Now I am just going to pray the minimal damage has stopped lol.
Damn man. This is why i keep some poly filter on hand.
Good luck 🤞💯👍✌️
🤞
Sorry to hear this, I had an acro rtn during the week there out of nowhere so going to do some tests and a water change. What percent water change did you do?
I did a 10% the day before (routine) and did Just over 10% after finding this… I don’t have the capacity to do more in my condo so I’ll do water changes every day for a few days. Carbon should help too.
would you do an icp?
Typically no, because if it comes back hot for metals I would do water changes to bring it back to normal… so I’m just going to assume I need to do water changes and save the price of an ICP… however, I won a triton ICP from unique corals so I ended up sending it off as a baseline on Monday, before I realized there was an issue