GAH! Star Polyp decay

[Mr.6LineWrasse]

One of my first coral, which I've fragged hundreds of times, and has polyps as long as a inch, is decaying! I am so angry. I've tried everything, moving it up and down, dips, everything. It just decided to close up about a month ago, and now it's starting to show decay. Some of the places where the polyps where are now small cavities. All my water looks good, PH-8.2 Nitrate-10, Saltinity-1.025, KH-11. Please help, I'll do anything to save this coral.

 

[jrsydevi1]

Aww that sucks.. I was gonna say dip it.. but I see you've tried that...

Maybe someone else has had this experience before? All the GSP's I ever had were bullet-proof nonstop growers...

Good Luck, man...

 

[Yedgy]

I have no advice on how to save your colony, but if there are any unaffected areas I would frag them immediately.

Good luck and let us know how you fare!

 

[Mr.6LineWrasse]

I have no advice on how to save your colony, but if there are any unaffected areas I would frag them immediately.

Good luck and let us know how you fare!

I tried fragging, those were the first to fall. Should I just leave the mat in there? Dispose of it? Let it decay in there? Nearly all the polyps are gone.

 

[Mr.6LineWrasse]

Here they were before.

 

[Mr.6LineWrasse]

Alright, all polyps died. Should I throw away the colony? Or can the colony just survive with the mat till the polyps grow back? The mats feeling brittle though. Not sure what to do. Please advice.

 

[LAKEM0NSTER]

I hate to say toss it out, but really it's not hard to get some more of it & it sounds like it's pretty much toasted... If you were closer to me I'd give you more of that coral than you can handle.

 

[Mr.6LineWrasse]

I know, but this was one of my first coral.
It feels like family.

 

[Mr.6LineWrasse]

Oh,
And it's not the only polyp coral that's suffering.
My Pipe Organ stopped opening.
And my Sympodium is down to three heads, and those are near dead as well.
:headwallblue:

 

[jrsydevi1]

Hate to say it... but I'd toss that thing.. don't let it decay in there..

Seems like something has definitely gone awry in your tank...

Post a fresh set of parameters, and describe your lighting, flow, and any recent changes of any kind...

I'm confident that the folks here can help you out...

 

[Mr.6LineWrasse]

Well, I'll get the tank parameters later,
LFS does very accurate tests for free.
My Actinic bulb went out maybe 3 weeks ago.
I need to replace those.
The star polyps were decaying long before my Actinics went out though.
I checked the stars every day and night to make sure there were no snail, hermits, worms, spiders etc. that were eating/disturbing it.

But, for the good news, I just moved the Sympodium higher and it's opening.
I also moved the Pipe higher, but no change yet for the Pipe.
I'll give it a day before I try something again.

 

[NewbyReefer]

Have you put any new frags in that might have brought something along? I had a type of nudibranch come in with some LR that went after my GSP and only my GSP. Once it wiped them out they died off. Left everything else alone.

 

[Mr.6LineWrasse]

No new frag, If it was some type of pest etc, I think it would eat the whole coral. I threw away the main GSP frag just now, maybe the other coral I listed were not doing well because of the decay.