SPS Bleaching branches by the day...help?? RTN

[saltman1]

HEy all I have a fairly new rather large Acropora colony that I noticed beging to blrached out from left to right the other day. I had a heater malfunction and had a 5 deg temp swing,,,,not a big deal but this is when it seemed to happen. I wake up this morning and now 2 branches have it. What do I need to do?? SHould I frag off the dieing branches from the main colony??

 

[Tu Ku]

Oh yeah, frag em off fast, atleast that's my course of action. But first fix what is wrong or else nothing you do will get it to quit. For an acro even a 5 degree swing in one direction and then 5 degrees back can be stressful, it's rare for a healthy colony, but by no means impossible.

 

[squidward1320]

It might of just had something wrong with it to begin with. In the wild acros will have a bigger swing of temp then that. What are your water parameters?

 

[saltman1]

All the water par are in check. It all seems to be happening since I added a phosban reactor. I even got a bad case of red slime algae starting to cover the sand at the same time!!