HELP! BIG problem with SPS!

[IMegaSquirt]

Yesterday The base of my new SPS looked like this. You cant see it perfect but you can see that there are polyps there

Today I came home from work and it looked like this!

I dont know what happened and it happened so fast! There are pods all over the white skeleton that is left there. The ac was on high and the tank temp went down to 76.7. I dont know if that Matters but i though that I would mention it. Is is in a high flow area on the bottom of my nano cube 24g under 150w MH. I tested the water and all the params are good! Please help I love this coral!

 

[SilverGTS]

Did you dip the coral before putting it in the tank? 76 degrees won't cause that. Also can be RTN (Rapid Tissue Necrosis). I lost a Cali Tort in 2 days from that, even did an emergency fragging. Were the "pods" red?

-Chris

 

[IMegaSquirt]

Its the regular clear little pods. No I did not dip before I put it in the tank. I dont usually dip, im probably going to catch flack for that. Everything else is doing fine! I guess if it is worse tomorrow it is the rapid tissue necrosis then huh! Did fragging the coral save your piece or did it eventually all die? By the way this is my first SPS!

 

[Alex T.]

It appears that 3 "stalks" have been glued to the plug. If these were the growth ends and not the base it may be the problem...sort of like sticking the budding end of a flower into the soil. I'm sure it would die. If it doesn't stop, I'd frag it above these spots and re-plug from the base.

 

[cichlid9]

It appears that 3 "stalks" have been glued to the plug. If these were the growth ends and not the base it may be the problem...sort of like sticking the budding end of a flower into the soil. I'm sure it would die. If it doesn't stop, I'd frag it above these spots and re-plug from the base.

I agree about fraggin a few tips if the necrosis persists. Would glueing the growth tips really matter? I have heard of some people glueing frags to plugs on their side so that it encrusts faster. Also of people just glueing crumbs of a frag left over from massive fraging and the crumbs glue into a new colony

 

[ros_sco]

Was this a fresh cut frag? If so that is probably your problem. I had a birdsnest that looked identical to that and every time I made a frag about half an inch above the glue died like that. I would watch it before re-fragging it.

 

[ek9vboi]

Doubt it was a new frag, look at the frag disk. The disk has some algae growth on it. I'm pretty sure you picked this up from the FMAS frag swap and I know who you had bought it from. His frags are all good, none of his have died in my tank. Anyways, frag the part that is white or even into the tissue and reglue it. It's RTN and can be gone by tomorrow like my pearl berry frag. Some say glue over the tissue to try and prevent it from receding. I've only had once instance of RTN and decided to leave it to see if it could recover but within hours it was gone. Make a few frags of it if the piece is big enough.

 

[IMegaSquirt]

What causes this RTN?

 

[IMegaSquirt]

Just looked now and yes the pods are red! What does that mean?

 

[RRaider]

It doesn't mean anything, redbugs don't infect birdsnests.

 

[kawicivic]

If it was rtn it would already be gone. If it has stopped just leave it alone and keep an eye on it. I think you lost tissue from the gluing of the frag based on the spots. If you start losing more tissue I would probably frag. Might want to watch for alk swings as well.

 

[IMegaSquirt]

It did lose about a 1/2" more up the base over night so this morning I went to walmart, bought a pair of dikes and some superglue. I cut the base off of the piece about 1/4 above where it was rotted. So now I have 2 decent sized frag instead of one big nice piece but if this saves it I am fine with that! Should this solve the problem? Im obviously going to keep an eye on it but is there anything specific that I should be looking out for?

 

[Nate R]

Looks like you have acan next too the coral. They could be reaching
over there at night stinging the bottom.

 

[IMegaSquirt]

Thanks for the help guys! But even fragging it did not stop the RTN! My birdsnest is now totally gone

 

[kawicivic]

Sorry man. That always sucks. Give it some time and try again.