smogl00
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Anyone have any ideas? Here's the situation:
I have had this happen to three acan colonies total now. The flesh will begin to slowly recede, around one head at a time or so until they are all gone. The third colony is getting hit now, two heads of my awesome rainbows gone and I do not want to lose this one. I currently have six other colonies right next to it that are completely unaffected. It seems to only affect one colony at a time.
There is no brown jelly, just tissue necrosis, which leads me to believe something is eating them. I finally went and got some coral RX to try dipping them today, and a couple white worm type things came off, but a was disturbed with what I saw when I put it back in the tank. The water I dipped it in was crawling with very tiny, white organisms. They almost looked like extremely small slugs or worms or something. Maybe about 1mm in length or so, maybe smaller. I took a look at the skeleton part of the affected acan once back in the water, and it appeared to be covered with these things. The only other place I've seen these things is they appear to be all over my torch corals as well, but never have an ill effect. Are they the culprit? Or merely cleaning up? It's obvious at this point that another colony will be next if I don't stop this soon. The tank is loaded with LPS, so it can't be something that eats all LPS. Tank parameters are:
CA: 420
Dkh: 9.2
Mag: 1340
Nitrates and phosphates undetectable. Medium spontaneous flow in the acan section of the tank (bottom), with 4x24 watt t5 bulbs 18" overhead. Let me know what you all think. Is interceptor going to be necessary? Haven't heard of an LPS bug really.
Steve
I have had this happen to three acan colonies total now. The flesh will begin to slowly recede, around one head at a time or so until they are all gone. The third colony is getting hit now, two heads of my awesome rainbows gone and I do not want to lose this one. I currently have six other colonies right next to it that are completely unaffected. It seems to only affect one colony at a time.
There is no brown jelly, just tissue necrosis, which leads me to believe something is eating them. I finally went and got some coral RX to try dipping them today, and a couple white worm type things came off, but a was disturbed with what I saw when I put it back in the tank. The water I dipped it in was crawling with very tiny, white organisms. They almost looked like extremely small slugs or worms or something. Maybe about 1mm in length or so, maybe smaller. I took a look at the skeleton part of the affected acan once back in the water, and it appeared to be covered with these things. The only other place I've seen these things is they appear to be all over my torch corals as well, but never have an ill effect. Are they the culprit? Or merely cleaning up? It's obvious at this point that another colony will be next if I don't stop this soon. The tank is loaded with LPS, so it can't be something that eats all LPS. Tank parameters are:
CA: 420
Dkh: 9.2
Mag: 1340
Nitrates and phosphates undetectable. Medium spontaneous flow in the acan section of the tank (bottom), with 4x24 watt t5 bulbs 18" overhead. Let me know what you all think. Is interceptor going to be necessary? Haven't heard of an LPS bug really.
Steve
