Help! What happened to my Coral???

[MrMikeB]

I agree with Steve, some of your parameters are a little off - but for birdsnest, not terrible. From my experience, RTN happens most because of a severe change in their living conditions, a spike in a parameter, a sting from a coral, etc. Standard tissue degeneration, IME, (like bleaching from the base up) over a period of time usually indicates water params that are not in tune with the coral's needs.

Any other changes or possible events you can think of?

 

[Justin74]

Being less than desirable perameters wouldnt bring on a swift death like that, but very well could make it more suseptable to other issues, where possibly under normal circumstances it would just get a nasty burn instead gets wiped out, nitrates may have lowered the corals tolerance/immunity and/or ability to recover from a temporary problem. Your not alone, mine has fallen and gotten burnt I dont know how many times and always grew back, but with my recent new tank symptoms I had to go through,it happened again and it just couldnt snap out of it. Not that your going through that, but I know my nitrates were high at the time... among other things

-Justin

 

[ReefnAv]

Thanks again everyone!

I did a water change today and I will do another one on Thursday when I get back from a business trip. At least try to get my parameters back on track....

 

[ReefnAv]

Mike - No changes that I can think of?

 

[Underwaterparadise]

IMHO that low of ALK and PH over a period of time could have caused it. If something dies all of a sudden that doesn't mean that something just went out of whack all of a sudden. The coral could have finally just gave up after fighting for days or weeks.