what do you do with your RTN/STN Corals??

[EleganceMan]

Do you take out any sps corals that start to RTN?? If not what do you do with them??

 

[EleganceMan]

i have read that the tissue that flakes off can float around until it lands on other sps corals and then cause them to die also!! True or not??

 

[EleganceMan]

i have noticed that when one goes usually several do so i could be true but could also just be whatever caused the problem in the first place...so??

 

[sahin]

I have had some acros STN/RTN whilst others survived. The tougher ones make it through and it didnt matter if there there necrosis tissue floating around.

I usually frag the affected coral in any event to save at least some part of it rather than losing all of it slowly.

 

[MammothReefer]

Depends on the piece, and what it's doing. I have 2 pieces right now that grew back from tiny specs. Had I taken them out I would have lost them completely.

A lot of times i just toss them in the back of the tank. Specially if it's a maricultured piece. I'll save the plug for something else, or use it in my rock work.

 

[SDguy]

If they are glued in a good spot, I leave them as new realestate for other corals

 

[EleganceMan]

Do you worry about the tissue causing others to do the same thing??

 

[SPSEMPIRE]

I have had some acros STN/RTN whilst others survived. The tougher ones make it through and it didnt matter if there there necrosis tissue floating around.

I usually frag the affected coral in any event to save at least some part of it rather than losing all of it slowly.

+1. The only way that this could spread would be more of a result of a change in parameters vs anything spreading.

 

[t4zalews]

I wait it out..I've had some stn corals come back and regrow over the dead areas..and I've had some just completely die. When they die I take them out.

 

[nano51]

I just leave them along. Sometimes they do come back.

 

[Allmost]

they become hitching posts for my seahorses

 

[Whisperer]

I usually wait until it is complete dead (sometimes, a branch survives like a colony of an abrotanoides that I have), then I save the skeleton for my calcium reactor. Recycle...soon they will become part of a living organism again.

 

[FraggledRock]

since they are reef building corals, i would leave them where they are lol

 

[nashorn]

i like to cut above the RTN and superglue in differnt area.
Dont dip since that will stress even more.
But still less then 50/50 they will make it.
I haven't had any Old school corals stn/RTN in a while but new wild frags can RTN for no reason.
Dead one uses to go to my ca reactor after cleaning.

 

[1MP3R1AL]

I crush them up and put them in my sump.

 

[itche_scratche]

Glue them so it can stop stn. As for rtn not sure you can do much.

 

[bogg]

Calcium rxtr media