over the past few months I have had a large welsco open brain begin to slowly peel from its skeleton and no matter what I did I could not reveres or stop the tissue recession, recently it completely let go of its skeleton. The part that is worrying me is now 2 other corals have begun to recede too, a wall hammer and a scoly. all my parameters are stable and other than these corals all others are growing and happy the only change I have made is switching to led lights but as soon as I thought they might be causing this problem I dimmed them way down and switched back to mostly t5's dose anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening?
cronic lps bail-out
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supra400hptt
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My only experience with this was with alk swings. Once I started dosing alk I've had no further problems.
I have the same issue, first it started with a 2' bubble gum chalice. Completely shedded it flesh, lots of fragging could do noting. Then it went to my 7 year old elegance which I think stopped without completely killing the coral. Now heads of a large hammer coral are starting to go slowly one by one. Although it seems to be slowing down it alot. I ended up dipping in revive this morning while doing a WC hoping that will stop whatever it is. It almost looks like brown jelly disease, but it is slow acting and I havent added anything in months almost a year except snails.
njdevilsfan
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Please post all your parameters and list your fish
And some pics as well
And some pics as well
cant get pics right now but I have parameters ph 8.1, alk 9dkh, salinity 1.026 specific gravity phosphate 0.06ppm, ammonia and nitrite are both 0 that is all I have tested regularly and my alk test is Elos all the others are hanna electronic lab grade tests. my fish are a yellow tang a Lubbock's fairy wrasse a high fin prawn goby and purple fire fish
victor escobar
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you have still to loos at Ca++ and Mg++ because they are in the same group as alkalinity and should be kept at the correct levels
Ca++ 400-450
mg 1200-1350
Ca++ 400-450
mg 1200-1350
It would almost be the same as what we have experienced, however that is not my issue. I have tested everything and it all checks out. But I did lose those 2 heads of hammer coral but it hasnt spread to anything else yet so I think I may have stopped it. Good luck.
