Stn

[THEUNION1]

Heres a simple technique some might know about but I'm going to post it anyways just in case others are battling it to no end. It should work in most cases...

Super glue. Lots of people frag the piece up to stop it, but super glue is a simpler attempt at TRYING to solve the issue. You need to basically seal the effected area and up the live skin a little bit to keep it from peeling further.

Simply coat all exposed areas and up a few mm of live skin.


Ps. The super glue technique is only to treat the bacterial infection. If it is due to shock or your water quality is sub par, this will not help you.

Pss. Dips will not work. That will only stress the coral even more and hinder your success from healing it.

 

[shih87]

I have never tried super glue but lots of water changes to rescue coral from STN. My theory is even it is an infection, a strong coral can cure itself, so water quality help. My biggest green staghorn on its body has many STN marks but after water change treatment, it gorw fantastic.

How we tell the STN is bacteria infection here? It should not as simple as "œif super glue fail" then it is not infection. Knowing that then we have better understanding success rate on super glue when compare to other methods.

Hope my statement make sense.

 

[Kattkrazie]

Heres a simple technique some might know about but I'm going to post it anyways just in case others are battling it to no end. It should work in most cases...

Super glue. Lots of people frag the piece up to stop it, but super glue is a simpler attempt at TRYING to solve the issue. You need to basically seal the effected area and up the live skin a little bit to keep it from peeling further.

Simply coat all exposed areas and up a few mm of live skin.


Ps. The super glue technique is only to treat the bacterial infection. If it is due to shock or your water quality is sub par, this will not help you.

Pss. Dips will not work. That will only stress the coral even more and hinder your success from healing it.

I completely agree! I have saved several acros that started to STN at the base by covering the area with super glue gel. The acros then encrust over the glue. It doesn't necessarily have to be a bacterial infection however. I almost lost a stylophora from STN when the T5 bulb above it had quit working (bad ballast). I had no idea how long the bulb had been out and only discovered it when the stylo started receding. I covered the white skeleton with super glue gel and the coral made a complete recovery. The stylo is 4 yrs. old now.

This process is much less stressful than cutting the coral.