Ever had random frags dying every now and then?

[straydum]

just as the title, i lose a frag, that has been flourishing and doing well, unexplained and at unpredictable instances

through these random deaths, i've so far lost a green acro frag and a sunset frag over the course of last year and early this year.

the current victim is a pink milli frag that has grown quite a bit since i got it. the base is now fully encrusted and the branches are definitely longer now. but as of late last week the colour started to fade. the polyps still extend but not as crazy as before. all this going on when my other sps are still fine as though nothing happend.

nothing new was added to the tank. 10% weekly changes go on as per normal and the water parameters stable with the help of dosing pumps, vodka, and phosphate/carbon reactors.

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[RRaider]

Are you absolutely positive you don't have any pests?

 

[allsps40]

Yeah this happens to me sometimes, normally to newer additions.

 

[Whisperer]

Once a new frags start to encrust, I hardly lose them. It is during the first 2 weeks when they are most vulnerable.

 

[MammothReefer]

Yes, well not often... I randomly lost a tort frag only frag I've lost, and typically something I have found to be very hardy. Never could figure that one out. I got 10-11 frags from the guy..tort just said fu and rtn'd. It was really wierd.

 

[catman78]

Doesn't sound to far fetched. I've had this a few times. Out of the blue bam, gone while all others are fine.

Keep an eye on testing, bulb age, etc. If you start loosing more pieces you have a problem.

+1 on checking for bugs..

 

[flyyyguy]

It happens sometimes, and you may never get to know the why.

New additions aside, which is a different topic, the more you have, the more likely it is one is going to go south on you every now and then.

If everything else looks great just keep on keeping on. Its the nature of the game sometimes. Over time you also get kind of tuned in to when enough is enough, and you dont necessarily need to see any tissue recession to know its time to start cutting a coral up in an attempt to save some of it. In most cases some of it can always be saved

Carbon changes and a multiple succession of good sized water changes (10-20% 3-5 days in a row) are always in order when you see a couple go just to be safe.

 

[straydum]

thanks for the replies guys!

i understand the death that comes with new frags but its painful to see old ones that are growing in go. the mille today is still poor with colours, PE present but just a little. i removed it from the rocks and onto the frag tray to check for bugs and all but nothing. if it were an acro i'd have more suspicion for bugs but not milles.

setting a aside a frag seems like the way to go just in case the whole thing dies (which i'm quite certain it will), though its hard to choose a nice branch cause this isn't the normal rtn/stn. its the whole thing going pale all together.