sps loosing skin after one day
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flying_dutchman
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STN, slow tissue Necrosis.
What are your parameters? Equiment? Dosing anything?
What are your parameters? Equiment? Dosing anything?
angel125
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ok .. 75 gallon reef ready... vertex 100 skimmer... BRS dosers with 2 part. TLF with BRS gfo.. smart reef reactor with esv carbon..nova extreme t5 8 bulb lighting system. 30 gallon sump...yes i do use ro/di.. at 0 tds.. just did a 20 gallon water change last week looking to do a 10 gallon water change tomorrow...for fishes i have a yellow tank, one false perc..yellow watchman gobie..algea blenny.. bunch of snails.. one large coral banded star...2 camel shrimps..i trully have to check parameters...will post that soon.. Thanks for ur help...
lordofthereef
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More important than your stock list is your parameters my friend! STN = slow tissue necrosis. Yes it is bad. Essentially means dieing tissue. Pics would help too 
Alex T.
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It can start at anytime, in anyone's tank. Stripping the phosphate too fast is just as bad as high phosphate. Sometimes it is caused from an alkalinity spike or decline. Adding a bunch of calcium and alkalinity loving frags can change your dosing regime pretty fast. Check your parameters.
Did you qt these corals for pests, light acclimation, salinity, etc? How many other sps do you have. Soft corals release alot of toxin. If they've been dominating your reef until now, this si most likely the cause. Mixed reefs in my opinion are tough!
I would run new carbon and do a 20-30% water change twice this week and see what happens. What is your lighting as well.
Did you qt these corals for pests, light acclimation, salinity, etc? How many other sps do you have. Soft corals release alot of toxin. If they've been dominating your reef until now, this si most likely the cause. Mixed reefs in my opinion are tough!
I would run new carbon and do a 20-30% water change twice this week and see what happens. What is your lighting as well.
ingtar_shinowa
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up your Magnesium a bit, but nothing seems too off. Might there have been a big temperature swing in transport? Did you float the bag before drip acclimation? I usually float for 30 minutes, then dip in my tank and drop them right in. Never lost a coral like this.
sedor
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He isn't saying your softies are irritated but sometimes they are difficult to keep with SPS because they release toxins in order to "defend" their territory and it can be deadly to SPS. For them to be dying on less than 24 hours it must be something drastic like very high nitrates. Simply put there are just many factors for us to tell you exactly what could be going on. Just trying and keep your water quality up, don't mess around with the tank to much and try and keep the parameters the same daily. I lost a lot of SPS in the beginning as well and it was mostly due to high nutrients (which softies also require which is another reason they don't mix well with SPS). I still wouldn't consider myself an SPS expert but I have managed to keep everything alive for about a year now. They key is stability and not messing around with things too much.
Alex T.
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Stability is key with sps. My parameter of choice to monitor has always been alkalinity. When it starts to shift either way, I slowly correct.
Your magnesium is definitely on the low side. Kent has a good product to safely raise it, (Tech M if I'm not mistaken) but a good quality salt mix with proper dosing should keep this in line. Something seems out of balance here. For your calcium to be over 450 and magnesium to be lower than natural seawater catches my attention. Are you successfully growing coralline algae to the point where it's your new nuisance algae? My sps really took off when the coralline got out of control. This only comes with a mature tank that has stable parameters. Some people even say to skip sps until you have to scrape the whole back wall of the tank at least once. Sounds silly, but the best in the hobby have coralline scraping as one of their scheduled maintenance chores.
Are you dripping kalkwasser in your topoff? Sometimes in large doses this can precipitate magnesium. I also don't see your nitrate (NO3) readings. If they're over 10, not only could that aid in stn/rtn and browning of corals, but it would also indicate that your phosphate reading is most likely inaccurate. It's fairly hard to have a high reading with one and no registered reading of the other. Whatever changes you're going to subscribe to...take it slow. My largest mistake when I first started keeping and having problems with sps was to try and change things too fast. Even if it's a change for the better, they don't appreciate it when it's that sudden.
Good luck...and keep us posted.
Your magnesium is definitely on the low side. Kent has a good product to safely raise it, (Tech M if I'm not mistaken) but a good quality salt mix with proper dosing should keep this in line. Something seems out of balance here. For your calcium to be over 450 and magnesium to be lower than natural seawater catches my attention. Are you successfully growing coralline algae to the point where it's your new nuisance algae? My sps really took off when the coralline got out of control. This only comes with a mature tank that has stable parameters. Some people even say to skip sps until you have to scrape the whole back wall of the tank at least once. Sounds silly, but the best in the hobby have coralline scraping as one of their scheduled maintenance chores.
Are you dripping kalkwasser in your topoff? Sometimes in large doses this can precipitate magnesium. I also don't see your nitrate (NO3) readings. If they're over 10, not only could that aid in stn/rtn and browning of corals, but it would also indicate that your phosphate reading is most likely inaccurate. It's fairly hard to have a high reading with one and no registered reading of the other. Whatever changes you're going to subscribe to...take it slow. My largest mistake when I first started keeping and having problems with sps was to try and change things too fast. Even if it's a change for the better, they don't appreciate it when it's that sudden.
Good luck...and keep us posted.
all sps is dead... I think i should just stick with the softies...just blew 80 bucks.. i really wanted them to grow in my tank...i hate to see things die especially if im the one handling them...Similar threads
