white syndrome - montis

[karimwassef]

My large purple monti somehow developed "white syndrome" with no new corals or fish added for months.

Here it is healthy - 30 days ago.

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Then the disease hit one spot

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and was slowly spreading

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I moved it to quarantine, but didn't remove the effected area. I also removed all other montis to the same quarantine planning to dip them all.

Overnight, they were all covered and dead.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22951746

Here's the quarantine the night before the mass extinction

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I'll take a pic of the corals now... just sad to look at right now.

 

[nmotz]

Man that sucks, I'm sorry. I've heard of stuff like this before. Even award winning tanks sometimes get struck by a strange plague that just kills everything. Hope no other damage is done to your tank. Looks like you have some really nice corals.

 

[karimwassef]

I moved all the montis out. No other corals look affected.

There's still some tissue on some of the montis. Since noone seems to know what causes them, and most of the coral is dead, I'm going with a massive assault on them.

I'm using a Potassium Permanganate KMnO4 soak of 50mg/L for 90mins. That should kill anything that's not a coral polyp (and some coral too). We'll see what happens.

I have almost nothing left to lose, so...

 

[bif24701]

Tragic, i can't imagine going through something like that. Losing everything at once with indication or otherwise input. Those look like large well established colonies also, and it only hit the montis?


Aaron

 

[M007]

I feel your pain, this has happened to me twice. 2 years ago I lost all monti but all other SPS were fine. Started again 6 weeks ago, first only one piece then touched two others, but this time other monti were untouched, and the same monti in other parts of the tank also unaffected. Lost 1/2 of a seasons greetings and part of another monti, both have siblings with no issues, and now everything is back to normal. Very odd.

 

[karimwassef]

I can't find an explanation to what causes it or how it spreads or even what it is

 

[DiscusHeckel]

Hi,

Sorry about your Montipora losses. Do you happen to dose organic carbon and/or use a product that contains bacteria, such as KZ ZEObak by any chance? I had a similar problem last June, but was able to reverse the tissue necrosis. I provided some pointers in this link to diagnose and solve the necrosis problem in my case.

 

[karimwassef]

No. I don't use carbon.

I use an ATS for nutrient export