SOS My SPS seems to be sick!
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Don’t they are Monti. Looks acropora.
Can't tell from pic if those are digitatis or not. But just from picture, I would say it's the pic. Lol.
The sps on the right looks like there was allot of detritus on the arm and you blew it off during maintenance or something and now have that void. From looks of other side if it's not pic....I woiluld then be worried of pests maybe.
Please give background of when it started. Picture in white light, and if you had new additions etc, change in lights.....
The sps on the right looks like there was allot of detritus on the arm and you blew it off during maintenance or something and now have that void. From looks of other side if it's not pic....I woiluld then be worried of pests maybe.
Please give background of when it started. Picture in white light, and if you had new additions etc, change in lights.....
I have had sps do something similar when too close and start touching and war fare starts. This was when parms are good and no bugs etc. Each sps would grow a branch into each other and start the games. Sometimes one would win. Sometimes both would loose.
If I found the branches together and cut them back from one another. Then usually both would eventually perish. It was like they were sucking the nutrients out of each other in the big mature colonies.
Just another thing to Inspect for
Can't tell from your pics but will wait to see them later.
If I found the branches together and cut them back from one another. Then usually both would eventually perish. It was like they were sucking the nutrients out of each other in the big mature colonies.
Just another thing to Inspect for
Can't tell from your pics but will wait to see them later.
Are you sure about all your parameters?
Have you double checked?
How are you measuring SG? is it calibrated? How did you calibrate it?
Something is not adding up. Something is ticking them off.
Full tank shot also.
Nothing has changed with flow or lighting? They are all bleaching in the same direction(up). Which can be lighting . Usually there is either a nutrient or something irritating it unless the lighting just jumped in intensity.
Its not the tips bleaching though? Any metals or anything that could be getting into the water. New salt mix? It almost looks like they are being hit with too much constant flow in that direction?
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I second this suggestion. Your basic parameters are fine. But something is very wrong for so many established colonies to be showing this kind of stress. I would be checking for metals, etc.
I will ask though -- have you had any problems managing temperature?
Assuming a normal ICP (e.g. no heavy metal issues/low potassium), my thought would be copepod parasites, namely Alteuthellopsis corallina. The bright green Acropora floridas seem to be especially sensitive to Alteuthellopsis. They look like this under a microscope:
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