Maze coral RTN, Help PLZ..

[osi]

Hi guys and girls,

Got a problem and hope you guys can help me with this.

I bought this coral from my friend about 5 months back and he kept this in his tank about 6 months before I get it. He got it from Thailand and think this is a wild collected piece.

When I got it doesn’t had the bright green color and it was generally brown in color. My friend’s tank doesn’t have good quality water.

In my tank after about one month it starts growing nicely.

My water parameters are

DKH – between 9.2 to 9.8

Ca – 460

Mg – about 1600

PH – 8.0

Po4/NO3/No2/NH3-4 – 0

I dose randy's two part system, Carbon, KZ seawater complex, KZ AA concentrate and KZ coral vitalize.

And also twice a month I use Prodibio Bioptem, Biodigest, reef booster, Stronti+ and Iodi+

My tank water is ultra clean coz of hevey skimming and carbon dosing.
And feed my fish and coral with DD reef sticks, reef paste, LPS food and SPS food.

Coral was doing fine until 3 days back. This picture is about 2 weeks old.

and yesterday morning i noticed a tissue loss of the coral for the first time. I don’t know how long it was going on but im sure it cant be more than 2 days old since I keep close watch on the tank.

pictures from yesterday.

and thees are the pictures from today and it lost more tissue from the front side.

and this picture shows the infection clearley.

So I’m guessing this is a some kind of bacterial infection. The thing is I don’t have any kind of coral dips with me right now and latest I can get one is about within 6 days. And with the speed its speeding there will be nothing left of this when I get the dip.

So guys what can I do to save this? Giving a fresh water dip gona do any good? is there any house hold product i can use on this like Iodine solution or hydrogen peroxide?

 

[osi]

More pictures from yesterday

 

[osi]

More pictures from today

 

[NeilFox]

In my opinion your DKH, Mg and Ca may be too high. You also seem to be using alot of additives. I am not sure what is in alot of this stuff. You may be overfertilizing the zooxanthellae. This is how stuff like Roundup hebicide works. Stuff grows like mad till it dies.

I reckon you should do a few small water changes and stop putting all that stuff in the tank. Layoff the iodine too, the skimmer will pull it out. Try an all stop for a couple days and stabilize things. Allow your DKH to come down around 7.5 or so, watch the ph (it really does matter), also keep the Magnesium below 1400. Just my two cents. I don't think it would hurt to slow down a bit. You may want to add a bit more information about what equipment your using. I am also somewhat skeptical of your parameters. I see alot of people saying thay have 0 Po4. I am not sure if thats possible using either synthetic seawater or NSW. Apparently, Po4 below around <0.03 is apparently detrimental anyhow.

I hope this helps you out. Post a little more info and I'm sure that you will get some other responses.

Regards

Neil

 

[osi]

Neil i keep dosing all that from long time and all my other corals doing fine. there doing more than fine since i have to cut the tips of one of my acros to prevent it coming out of the water.

I use rowa and my PO4 levels are undetectable to both Salifert and API test kits. Same for the nitrate. this is why i like dosing carbon.

this is the only coral i recentley add and even this was doing fine for last 3 months.

Anybody got any ideas what i can do to stop this coral loosing its tissue?

 

[NeilFox]

What are the other corals. I wonder if its possible that the parameters that they thrive in are not what this coral likes? The Dkh and Mg still seem awful high. The frag guys run around 1360 and that's high and a very specialized environment.

I could be wrong.