Red Planet pooping white stringy stuff

NanoJosh

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]Almost a month ago I noticed diminishing PE on my RP so I keep an eye on it and now it's almost non existing with lil white strings of poop looking stuff stretching out of a few polyps. I have pieces of the same colony in all my tank and they are all fuzzy with polyps. All my other sps in that tank have full PE so should I start a spot feed regimen out what. Params are SG 1.024 Alk is 8.7 Ca is 400 steady and mag is alway 1350 only filter media I run is chemi pure elite. And PO4 is .25.
 
Without a picture I can tell you that I have had white stringy response from my RP when it was bothered by a preditor crab. That's off the top of my head otherwise need photos...
 
Oooh how did I know u guys were gonna say that ill try and get a good pic tonight. The filaments were gone in a couple hours.
 
Did you mean phos is 0.025 or 0.25 mate. That sounds a lot like the coral displaying distress, if you crush a few acro tips accidentally you see that white sliming from the damaged area for a few hours. I'm pretty certain it's the same slime you see when you take a coral out of the water for a while and it seeks to slow dehydration but just limited to the areas currently being attacked/damaged. If you tap an acro anywhere you'll see the entire colony withdraw polyps just like you're seeing, the 'tap' in this case is whatever thing is targeting specific and limited areas of the coral. I think RKLion is close to the mark that it may be a pest of some sort but pics will help. :)

Edit: i meant to say it might be wise to start torch spot checks when the lights are off as you might catch something up to no good.
 
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