Help With Pressure Washed SPS!!

[chad p]

My SPS frags are mounted in the upper 1/3 of my tank. Recently I had a minor issue with cyano so I moved my MP1O to a different area of my tank. Unfortunately it appears that it blasted a couple of my frags a bit too hard. The 2 frags that were closest to the MP1O got an area where the skeleton was exposed. Once I noticed it I moved the MP10 but the damage was done.

The pictures below aren't the greatest but you can see where the fleshy part is gone. What I'm wondering is should I just leave the frags alone and hope that they heal themselves or should I cut away a branch or 2 of healthy coral and mount them for some insurance?

The reason I ask is because it appears that one of the frags has gotten a bit worse even after moving the MP10 back to its original location. I love this frag and I'd hate to lose it! BTW, the Cali tort in the second photo has a couple of bleached branches but on this one I think it was a result of having stringy cyano hanging on it rather than from being blasted. Not sure if that makes any difference in the way I handle it.

Here's a couple of bad pics of what's going on and I'd appreciate any input from SPS-heads with more experience than myself.

 

[Allmost]

I would look elsewhere for the Issue. specially since you say one of them is worse now even after the power head was moved.

I have corals less than 10" away, in front of a MP60 !

 

[chad p]

Thanks for the reply.

That was what I looked to first because it happened to the 2 frags in front of the MP10 and on the same side. Maybe it's possible that it was from stringy pieces of cyano being pushed by the pump into those areas of the corals? I think this was the case with the branches of the cali tort because for some reason that frag always seemed to collect the stringy stuff where the bleaching started.

All of the other frags seem to be doing fine so maybe it's a matter of being hit with cyano. Assuming that's what it was, do you think that it's something that could heal on its own or is it too much damage?

I'm hoping to get some votes as to whether I should leave it alone or try to frag a healthy piece to avoid losing them all together.

 

[chad p]

Just a thought I had... after reading another thread from someone losing SPS I wonder if it could be from lowering phosphates?

With my cyano issues I just recently changed out my GFO in my reactor. I've also cut back my feeding and upped my water changes to 5 gallons every 5 days to a week to try to knock out the cyano.

My zoas have been kind of half opening lately but I thought that this was probably due to being annoyed by the frequent pestering from stringy cyano catching on them. Other than that I haven't been seeing any other symptoms and the cyano hasn't completely gone away even after battling it for the last few weeks.

Anyone think that the symptoms with the SPS could be due to a phosphate dip? I'm afraid to feed more and cut back the GFO because of the cyano.

What do I do?!?!?!

 

[Allmost]

What do I do?!?!?!

IMHO, in these situations, just keep things as STABLE as you possibly can. keep water in top notch, even if you have to do more water cahnges, and leave the corals be.

some praying might help too LOL Im kidding of course, but at this point, anything you do, like fragging it and .... might stress the coral even more and push it to the point of no return.

Hope they make it