what's happening to my efflo?

[phishlet]

Take a look at the pic below. My 14 inch diamater efflo is starting to develop "white patches" in various places. The tissue doesn't appear to be gone, rather it almost looks like it is bleaching. The rest of the acro is still colored up real nice and polyped out.

Coral is almost directly under a 250 watt AB 10k lamp in the upper 1/3 of the tank. Temp is 78 degrees and water params check out totally fine. The only thing that may be a factor that I can think of is that my calcium reactor media puked out just as the efflo was starting to do this. I didn't have enough reactor media on hand to replace right away so the tank went 4 days without the reactor waiting for shipping. I used some Kent Liquid reactor during that 4 day period to try and keep the alk/calc up but the alk did drop from 8.5 (where I normally keep it) to around 6.8 for a day or so. Calcium also went from about 400 down to 300. The reactor is getting dialed in again any my alk is staying between 8 and 8.5. Calcium is still a bit low at 350 but I'm bringing it up to 400 with Turbo Calcium so the reactor can maintain.

Thoughts?

 

[Hef]

I posted about a while back with some photos of my Efflo. I was getting white patches also. In the thread, I think someone mentioned Low Alk. My alk was pretty low, below 8.0. I raised it, and never had a white patch again. Mine were getting very big at times and scary looking. I was thinking Flatworms or something.
Heres' the thread.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=696910&highlight=Efflo

Here's a photo.

Here is a more recent photo, it's looking much better.

BTW, you've got a very colorful Efflo there. Looks great.

Hef

 

[phishlet]

How long did it take for your efflo to recover? I'm wondering if I should shorten my light schedule or something too. It's probably just best to keep things consistent. My Alk is leveling out now that the reactor is getting dialed in.

 

[sealife]

what is your alk??

 

[Julio]

Phislet, nice color on that efflo.

 

[phishlet]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6531414#post6531414 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Julio
Phislet, nice color on that efflo.

Thank you! I don't want to lose it though...

 

[phishlet]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6531322#post6531322 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by sealife
what is your alk??

In my original post I had said that the alk is now staying between 8 and 8.5. With new media in my reactor I'm trying to dial it in again which is what is accounting for some of the fluctuation. But at least it is staying above 8.

 

[imbuggin]

mine

mine

mine got that once or twice from 1 of 3 things. Other coral falling on it or kalk, not enought light getting to it, and mostly because they like wicked flow and you can let detritis settle on top of them. I have one right infront of a 6100 tunze stream blowing over the top and one of the returns with a penductor. Since adding crazy flow around it it recovered and had gone on a crazy growth spurt it is getting huge.

 

[sealife]

mine did that when my alk was low you should be fine now that your alk is up

 

[Rurouni Kenshin]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6529069#post6529069 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Hef
I posted about a while back with some photos of my Efflo. I was getting white patches also. In the thread, I think someone mentioned Low Alk. My alk was pretty low, below 8.0. I raised it, and never had a white patch again. Mine were getting very big at times and scary looking. I was thinking Flatworms or something.
Heres' the thread.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=696910&highlight=Efflo

Here's a photo.

Here is a more recent photo, it's looking much better.

BTW, you've got a very colorful Efflo there. Looks great.

Hef

I have an Acro that is doing that same exact thing to me, but my alk is 10.0! I wonder what other causes of this problen is?? I at first thought not enough light or flow because it was on the bottom of my tank, but now I moved it up to the top middle, it still has this problem! It happend mainly on the base and in between a few branches.

 

[Hef]

The only other thing that came from the thread I posted, is blowing off any debris that lands on corals. Efflos and Caps are known for this, so I started doing that once a week. Very easy to do. So I'm not sure what helped in my case, raising alk a little, or keeping the coral clean.
Something Helped.

 

[JB NY]

I've had that happen from time to time. It always seems to go away after a while. Not sure what causes it.

 

[phishlet]

Well my Alk is staying between 8 and 8.5 or so now so hopefully the white will go away. Out of curiousity what alk do you all keep your reefs at?

 

[clkwrk]

My efflo which I have had 8 months does that also time to time . I readjust flow or light its getting and it heals right up . My alk is 7-8 dkh but mostly stable at 7.4 dkh. It even did it back when I was running my alk near 10 dkh.

 

[Hef]

OK, what the heck is this? I got another big white spot about 5 days ago. Then tonight, I see this. I took a tweezer and these white spots are soft, yes like an egg sack. I've looked close and never see anything on the coral, or any other piece I have.

I'm looking for the big acro flatworm thread, but cant find it right now, search is down.

Any Ideas? Scary.

 

[phishlet]

Update: I still have the white. It's not really getting worse, but it isn't getting better either. Alk is staying between 7.8 and 8.0 now.

 

[Pyrrhus]

Hef- those look like mesenterial filaments, typically they are a sign of stress.

 

[Deepsea2005]

Check your Salinity. It happend to my corals when the Salinity was to hight.

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

very nice piks and efflo too...

 

[phishlet]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6629335#post6629335 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Deepsea2005
Check your Salinity. It happend to my corals when the Salinity was to hight.

That had ocurred to me too. But my salinity is rock steady at 1.025 with a refractometer.