Hey All,
So after 10 years I’m finally starting to get into SPS, and, for the last few years my standard quarantine protocol is to do a one day monitoring of the coral to make sure it’s ok, then do a 6-7 day medicated cipro bath at 0.3mg/l with 100% water changes every day. I have used this on every lps I have, as well as multiple monitopora species, and green humillis with success and all corals have thrived after.
I purchased a large piece of orange humilis this past weekend, and, it looked a bit stressed (no polyp extension), but generally looked ok. I kept it overnight in clean water the first night, polyps never extended but it still looked ok, then started my cipro treatment. After 24 hours of the first cipro treatment, the coral flesh began to peel off. Trying to stay the course, and in case what I’m seeing is my first encounter with RTN, I continued the cipro treatment. I am now on the third day of treatment and around 80% of the flesh has peeled off.
To be clear, I take full responsibility for any of my actions, and do not blame any fish store for this, this is part of my learning journey, but, as I’m new to the SPS world, has anyone had a situation where they saw rapid flesh peeling from SPS when starting with Cipro? I could really use some help here in on this.
And, for reference, the flesh is peeling off cleanly, just falling off like peeling an orange.
Has this happened to anyone before?
Thanks,
Rishi
So after 10 years I’m finally starting to get into SPS, and, for the last few years my standard quarantine protocol is to do a one day monitoring of the coral to make sure it’s ok, then do a 6-7 day medicated cipro bath at 0.3mg/l with 100% water changes every day. I have used this on every lps I have, as well as multiple monitopora species, and green humillis with success and all corals have thrived after.
I purchased a large piece of orange humilis this past weekend, and, it looked a bit stressed (no polyp extension), but generally looked ok. I kept it overnight in clean water the first night, polyps never extended but it still looked ok, then started my cipro treatment. After 24 hours of the first cipro treatment, the coral flesh began to peel off. Trying to stay the course, and in case what I’m seeing is my first encounter with RTN, I continued the cipro treatment. I am now on the third day of treatment and around 80% of the flesh has peeled off.
To be clear, I take full responsibility for any of my actions, and do not blame any fish store for this, this is part of my learning journey, but, as I’m new to the SPS world, has anyone had a situation where they saw rapid flesh peeling from SPS when starting with Cipro? I could really use some help here in on this.
And, for reference, the flesh is peeling off cleanly, just falling off like peeling an orange.
Has this happened to anyone before?
Thanks,
Rishi