LPS Slow Tissue Necrosis

izzyishh · Mar 22, 2018

Hello I need some help with my beautiful acan garden. I have lost about 50% of it in the last month. I am not 100% sure what the issue may be. I know for sure it is not brown jelly. I do know its some sort of bacterial infection makes be believe it is Slow Tissue Necrosis. Tissue loss begins on the rim of the acan head and then starts to spread to the rest of the colony issue is almost all my colonies are effected. I have done multiple Medi Coral dips "iodine" with no luck I will be doing a dip with Polyp Labs Reef-primer in hopes to save some of my acans. Does any one have any recommendations with this or has anyone dealt with this issue in the past and won?

Tank:
Cal 420
Alk 8
Mag 1350
NO3 4
PO4 0-.15

Light:
Kessil a360 has been dimmed since the issue began

Nothing has been added or changed to the tank.

Thank You All!

izzyishh · Mar 22, 2018

#reefsquad

I luv coralz · Mar 22, 2018

Any pics?

izzyishh · Mar 22, 2018

I luv coralz said:
Any pics?

I will take some today when I do the Primer dip. It started on the bottom of the colonies so it took a while before i noticed i was loosing heads since the top heads still inflate and puff up. Tissue lose on the individual heads begins on the rim then spreads till it kills the entire head and moves on to the next

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 22, 2018

Have you noticed any other odd things in the tank? Algaes , corraline , etc?

izzyishh · Mar 22, 2018

Since I started the Medi Coral dips I have gotten some light diatoms on the sand bed but nothing out the norm its a 29g bicube I do 10g water changes weekly.

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 22, 2018

Any gfo? Chem media , and high med or low flow?

S-t-r-e-t-c-h · Mar 22, 2018

Also, what's your feeding regimen? With low nutrient systems, they need supplemental feeding for sure...

izzyishh · Mar 22, 2018

Only thing I run are the biocube filters with carbon.
I target feed all my LPS Reefroids and LPS pellets 1-2 times a week

drawman · Mar 22, 2018

I would also try feeding them to see if they respond. You may want to try a diluted H202 dip as well. Is something nipping at them?

Do you have other coral in this tank that is doing well and growing?

izzyishh · Mar 22, 2018

Acans get low-medium flow i have a MP10 on random mode

izzyishh · Mar 22, 2018

Yeah My gold torch just split my Fat head dendros are popping babies duncans are popping heads. Fish in the tank gold arcessor, yellow wrasse, and a randol goby

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 22, 2018

acans and shrooms have always hated me. Zoas finally are tolerant, Xenia fear me , and NPS like my style, But....

Funny isn’t it?

izzyishh · Mar 22, 2018

Guess not many people get hit with this issue......

saltyfilmfolks · Mar 22, 2018

izzyishh said:
Guess not many people get hit with this issue......

It’s early on a Thursday. Bump it with pics about 4pm EST.

Kilo · Mar 22, 2018

Following. I am also having the same problem. Was recommended to dip as well

vetteguy53081 · Mar 24, 2018

Feeding is a must for mine as is potassium and aminos such as Seachem fuel and brightwell aminos. I have mine in moderate flow closer to the blues and they multiply like mice