Useful_Idiot
Artificially Intelligent
I've done some searching on the subject and seems there's not alot of known causes but I need help here. Within the last month I've had 5 sps start to stn on me. every time it started in the shaded area.
First was a light blue acro 3" I had for a month. I fragged it and the biggest piece of that died. 4 little stubs I cut off have made it so far. Then a ora red planet frag lost a spot on it's side, it stopped at the edge of the light and is regrowing over it. Then a purple haze encrusting monti I've had a year and has grown very well had a shaded spot peel off. it stopped there, I superglued over the skeleton and now the necrosis is continuing beyond the superglue now. a green pocilapora frag lost a spot above it's base I dipped it in coral rx and superglued over the spot. it's getting worse. A tricolor acro frag that always had pe and was getting brighter everyday stopped pe, I flipped it over and the underside was peeling off. Dipped and superglued that spot and no change yet.
the tank is 2 years old, a 40 breeder with a 55 gallon sump/fuge. Change 5 gallons every week. gfo carbon-2 weeks. Ato and drip 3 cups kalk every night. mp10 and 300 gph return flow. AI sol blue. just one but the sps are all under the center.
ca 420
alk 8.6
mg 1410
ph 8.2
no3 .2
po4 .07 hannah (trying to lower slowly)
coraline and green algae grow and I remove a gallon of chaeto every 2 weeks. I add oysterfeast and aminos. lps and softies are normal maybe alittle pale. I have a ground probe. 8 other sticks and 6 other montis doing very well. I even have a sunset monti that was almost dead when I got it that's made a full recovery. I did change to leds 8 weeks ago but 3 of the occurances the frags were under 300 par and looking great prior to.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I was hesitant to start this thread because so little is known but maybe I'm overlooking something.
First was a light blue acro 3" I had for a month. I fragged it and the biggest piece of that died. 4 little stubs I cut off have made it so far. Then a ora red planet frag lost a spot on it's side, it stopped at the edge of the light and is regrowing over it. Then a purple haze encrusting monti I've had a year and has grown very well had a shaded spot peel off. it stopped there, I superglued over the skeleton and now the necrosis is continuing beyond the superglue now. a green pocilapora frag lost a spot above it's base I dipped it in coral rx and superglued over the spot. it's getting worse. A tricolor acro frag that always had pe and was getting brighter everyday stopped pe, I flipped it over and the underside was peeling off. Dipped and superglued that spot and no change yet.
the tank is 2 years old, a 40 breeder with a 55 gallon sump/fuge. Change 5 gallons every week. gfo carbon-2 weeks. Ato and drip 3 cups kalk every night. mp10 and 300 gph return flow. AI sol blue. just one but the sps are all under the center.
ca 420
alk 8.6
mg 1410
ph 8.2
no3 .2
po4 .07 hannah (trying to lower slowly)
coraline and green algae grow and I remove a gallon of chaeto every 2 weeks. I add oysterfeast and aminos. lps and softies are normal maybe alittle pale. I have a ground probe. 8 other sticks and 6 other montis doing very well. I even have a sunset monti that was almost dead when I got it that's made a full recovery. I did change to leds 8 weeks ago but 3 of the occurances the frags were under 300 par and looking great prior to.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I was hesitant to start this thread because so little is known but maybe I'm overlooking something.
