stylophora help

[triggerfish55]

i noticed that my yellow stylophora frag has a few patches where it lost its polyps and it is just bare skeleton. the frag has been in my tank for about a month and is showing good polyp extension and good color. all other sps, lps and softies are doing good.
tank params
alk 8 dkh
calcium 430
nitrate, amonia, nitrite 0
salinity 1.025
temp 74

most of the frag is lookin ok its just 3-4 patches of dead tissue
its weird cause usually most sps tissue problems start from the base or at one spot and spread bu in this case its a few small isolated spots
could this be due to some sort of parasite or flatworm

also the frag is in high light but low ish flow, i am considering of moving it to high flow since that usually where i keep stylophora.

 

[natas]

I have all of mine in high flow. I wouldn't worry until you see more spots like this. Do you have anything in your tank that could potentially nip at the frag? I caught one of my emerald crabs picking at a purple style....he was moved to the sump. Angels can also nip.

 

[triggerfish55]

i moved it to a high flow spot last night, it seems to be looking good this morning, so we will see how it goes.

 

[triggerfish55]

so quick update, after being move to higher flow its looking much better, and polyps are much fuller then before, also a bit better color.

 

[TylerHaworth]

74 seems awfully cool, borderline cold...

 

[triggerfish55]

ya 74 is on the cool side but a little while ago i got a few large corals from Tonga, there was an acropora colony that was bleached so to aid it throughout the reversal of the bleaching processes i lowered the temp a little bit, i actually started to increase the temp a few days ago and now its at 78, should be at 80 by next week.