Help Chalices are Melting Away.

I am in the same boat juice. i did a lugols dip yesterday to a few chalices. they still didn't look to good this morning so i'll probably do an interceptor dip later. Well see how everything turns out!
 
Update: Everything seems to be doing very good but i still have some corals that are affected and still dying. My aussie scoly has just started to recede two day ago and i did lugol dip and still not looking to good. I am happy that i saved most of my prized chalices and aussie acan. I still notice when i feed the frag tank which is my smaller tank there is slimy stuff that reach out to grab food. i think i will have to set up a interceptor tank just to dip the corals because not all of them are affected by the white stuff. i dont know what is going on.
 
I treated my tank and some of my lps's that were on there way out are looking much better now. I had a micro colony that grew really well for a long time and then just started going down hill and was not going to make it and now after the interceptor is looking really good again and also some chalices. I wish I had known about this before I lost a couple of really expensive chalices!
 
Alright some updates on mine. RokleM and JUICE were right. It had to do with my Temp. Our Thermometer was reading 80-81 always. Well we go another one and the water was 89 degrees. We have since got our temp stable at a true 80 degrees and the corals are starting to look much better.
 
Any updates? I fragged and dipped 2 chalice and an Acan last week. So far so good but I will wait at least a month to be able to see if the receding has stopped
 
I had a similar thing happen to some of my Acan lords though it never got that bad. Basically just the increase in ground temp from winter-spring and my inattention were at fault.

Seems like if you look on various forums there are always "whats wrong with my coral" threads right around May-June. On the advice of a friend I have been running my systems a little cooler for the Acans and it seems to be paying off. Now I am at 77-78 instead of 81-82 and color is looking great. I would run them even cooler (advice was to go to 72-75) but the other corals in the tank probably can't take it. And growth falls off at that point as well from what I have heard.
 
I keep my 450 at 75 and my sps grows like mad. Acans have always looked good too. I don't think growth is effected if temp is consistant at 75. There may well be an adjustment period when temp is first lowered that effects growth rate, but if you give it time I think growth rebounds nicely IME.
 
Well, I have a couple tanks...seems like it might be worth exploring in at least one of them. How long have you been running 75 degrees and what kind of growth are you seeing?

why would they grow better at lower temps?
 
I've been running at that temp +/- for about 10 months. I don't think things necessarily grow faster, I just think if you keep your parameters spot on, running your tank a little cooler doesn't have a major impact on growth...I do believe growth is slightly slower actually, just not enough to worry about...My theory has been to run cooler and have a built in buffer if temps rise unexpectedly. Why have your tank at 81 when a moderate rise in temps can have adverse effects? Another is that I really like LPS and Deepwater acros (although I have a lot of SPS) and while diving I've seen my share of LPS in the 60 foot depth range in mid 70's temps. Nuisance algae (although I have none) doesn't seem to do as well in lower temps either....Obviously, you can have success either way. I think long term consistancy with the smallest changes possible no matter which temp you choose is best. I'm sure you know that though...
 
Does anyone have an update on treating with interceptor? My acans / chalices have started slowly melting and I am not sure of the reason. The sps in the tank all are fine. I am going to try fragging and doing a tropic marine coral dip, but I am not sure of the interceptor treatment.

Can someone please update?

Thank you!!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13482613#post13482613 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ktar
You can treat the corals in a separate tank.
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How is your system doing after your treatment and time passed?

SS
 
Hey Ktar,
if buying frags from you, do I need to treat my tank for them as well? Or is it all out of the water and corals since you treated already.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13487968#post13487968 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Hens4Fish
Hey Ktar,
if buying frags from you, do I need to treat my tank for them as well? Or is it all out of the water and corals since you treated already.
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Well if he treated and it's all gone then you should have no worries about any black bugs on any frags.
 
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