Slimer recoverable? (bleached)

[wings516]

Picked up a slimer hoping to try my hand at SPS and not doing so well with it as a first time SPS owner... Softies are doing great and clove polyps are still propagating.
30 gallon 4xt5 6500k, ATI blue, ATI coral+, ATI Blue
Been checking my parameters the past few weeks and they have been steady. I did have one salinity spike 2 weeks ago from 1.025 to 1.029 (bad water change on my behalf).
Parameters average out to be... Sal - 1.026 Cal - 460 pH - 8.2 Kh - 8.5 Phos - .009ppm Nitrate / Nitrite - 0 Ammonia - 0 Phos checked with Hanna ULR.

Moved it out of the high flow area into a medium flow area as well as down to the sand bed (2 inches lower). I have also been turning it very incrementally every day to try and maximize exposure to the living tissue. Not sure if I should trim the bleached tips? Will it grow over it?

Been fighting some moderate growth with turf algae, but nothing substantial.

 

[nemodan]

It isn't bleaching. Is STN (dying). Yes, you have yet a chance of saving the coral. Cut ASAP the only good branch and glue it to a plug. Cut it over the good tissue.


Is Bryopsis what you have there in the picture ? If I am correct, I will be more worry about the Bryopsis than the frag.

 

[wings516]

It isn't bleaching. Is STN (dying). Yes, you have yet a chance of saving the coral. Cut ASAP the only good branch and glue it to a plug. Cut it over the good tissue.


Is Bryopsis what you have there in the picture ? If I am correct, I will be more worry about the Bryopsis than the frag.

Oh sweet baby jesus.. I just looked up what Bryopsis is and it most certainly is that. Magnesium overkill seems to be the solution. Mag and mag test kit incoming!

So SPS grows from the inside out then? I was assuming if it lived the good tissue would just grow over the skeleton.

Should I get any other additives such as coral amino acids etc?

 

[nemodan]

At the stage of STN of that frag do what I told you. Cut the good branch over the good tissue. Toss all the rest. Glue the good branch and wait to see if the tissue necrosis stop.

Forget of SPS additives for now. Take care of the Bryopsis, then get all parameters stables and start again with SPS.

This is my opinion, let see what others think.

Cheers
Daniel

 

[buy_baff]

The only possible chance is what is stated above. but most likely as far gone as it is it will just finish Rtn'ing anyway. But the plus is that its only green slimmer. around my parts it basically a give away coral.

 

[wings516]

Thanks for the advice. Mag on order and coral frag kit on order. Should get here Wednesday.

Throw away coral? Have any you'd be willing to send me?

 

[DiscusHeckel]

I would discount that coral unless you can remove a small section that has not been affected by the tissue necrosis.