Is This Rtn? Help

[reefboy1994]

hey

i dont have a picture because my photobucket account is not working. i have a green slimer colony and last night i noticed one of the polyps was white and the part of the coral around it is white, now there is a size about the size of a nickel that is white. is this rtn? if so should i cut up the coral and throw out that piece?

 

[luther1200]

It sounds like either RTN or STN. Usually with RTN you can actually see the flesh peeling off. Either way it doesn't sound good.

I have adopted a strict policy in my tank of fragging anything that startes to RTN/STN right away. Thats after playing the wait and see game 1 to many times and losing colonies that I most likely could have saved if I acted sooner.

 

[reefboy1994]

right after i posted this i fragged it into 11 smaller pieces.

does the STN/RTN happen only on the flesh or under the flesh?

cuz i left some of the calcium skeleton under where it was.

 

[luther1200]

i'm not sure what you exatly mean. Once the RTN/STN happens there isn't any flesh left. If you mean will it travel through the skeleton, I don't know. But when I frag stuff like that I cut into healthy flesh about a 1/4". Or at least a little bit.

 

[reefboy1994]

im good then. thanks alot luther1200!

 

[divewsharks]

why did you cut the coral into 11 pieces?

 

[reefboy1994]

the rtn/stn was in the middle of the colony and my bone cutters werent that big so i couldnt cut thru the thickest part.