Urgent help ASAP!!!!

[jmowbray]

I am in need of urgent help. On Monday I changed out my GFO reactor. Apparently the media was all spent since today I got home to see one of my Accropora has started losing tissue bad. I immediately pulled off the reactor offline. Is there any other ideas people have that might help save this coral? It's the only one I can see in the tank that is doing this

 

[jmowbray]

All other accros, sps and Lps are fine. I'm looking for things that would help heal it. It's not completely skeleton yet. Lower lighting? Add fauna Marin organic trace, Red Sea amino acids

 

[Wiskey]

I would frag off a healthy branch making sure there is no tissue loss too close to where you cut. Normally when this starts it continues through the whole coral but on occasion this can save a peice.

Whiskey

 

[jmowbray]

Thank you. I will try my best. It's a medium sized colony now and the loss it really all over the place. I can't believe I did that. One would think that since they thrive in low nutrients a change wouldn't effect them as much as say LPS.

 

[71xlch]

There are a ton of threads in which GFO strips the water to fast and SPS die. If it was spent chances are phosphate crept upwards and when you added the new stuff it crashed back down.

 

[jmowbray]

Oh I'm fully aware of what happened. I'm just trying to stop the spread. The colony was a deep purple and green it's a Tri Color Granulosa. I'm trying to relate it to a really bad sunburn and reduce light period and intensity as the tissue is already hurting it's doesn't need to be fried anymore. I will try to get a pic when I get home and see how much more is gone. The loss is all over it just didn't start at the base. On a stick it can have a spot on the tips, middle and base. some are completely gone. I'm going to cut the totally done ones off.

 

[Reefvet]

Oh I'm fully aware of what happened. I'm just trying to stop the spread.

STN is a systemic reaction to a radical change in nutrients and/or ionic balance in the water. It doesn't spread. Whatever damage you've done is done to the corals that reacted to the change.

Whatever changes you can make to return the tank to near the water chemistry before the GFO stripped it is your only recourse.

 

[jmowbray]

I got home and there are some good sticks with no tissue recession. It appears that it has stopped advancing. If the polyps still have a polyp that extend it can still make it correct?

 

[m0nkie]

I always cut the frag and use superglue to cover all the fresh cuts.

I just did this with of my 2 expensive acros and they both survived... now they only have a base left on the plug (i had to chop off the entire frag), but at least they survived..

in my previous experiences, I found that leaving them be often results in death

 

[jmowbray]

I always cut the frag and use superglue to cover all the fresh cuts.

I just did this with of my 2 expensive acros and they both survived... now they only have a base left on the plug (i had to chop off the entire frag), but at least they survived..

in my previous experiences, I found that leaving them be often results in death

Ok I just did this today so we'll see how it goes

 

[jmowbray]

Well it's been a week and no more recession. Not sure how I stopped it but I added ultra organic at double the dosage every other day and in the off days used the regular dosage. Lighting levels were the same and I skimmed wet. Here's the colony today.

The picture actually looks worse than it is. There is still quite a bit of live tissue spotted throughout. I did frag some good spots and super glue them in the colony. All of them have taken and should make the colony look really full now.