my beautiful acro what the ****

[jumpincactus]

I have heard about coral bleaching but this is too weird. Keep in mind that last night this prostrata was healthy and looking good, came home from work today and this is what I found.

Please input anyone.

Can I frag the remaining two arms and save them or are they doomed too

 

[Anonymous]

You can frag it to try and save it. Make sure you frag it above where it is recceding. It does not look good since I see some dead spots all over.

 

[jumpincactus]

mark any idea on what is causing this condition? is this the dreaded coral bleaching, or worse yet acro eating nasties??

 

[trido]

Looks to me like a classic case of mystery RTN.

 

[Anonymous]

mark any idea on what is causing this condition? is this the dreaded coral bleaching, or worse yet acro eating nasties??

It doesn't look like a coral eating thing to me. Just looks like the coral died. It happens from time to time. Could be a water quality issuse, or a lighting issue or you just got a bad piece from a LFS.

 

[Anonymous]

Frag the tips, and use a q-tip to rub seachem reef dip over the cut areas to hopefully stop any additional damage should it be bacterial.

But if that happened overnight it's most probably not AEFW

 

[Anonymous]

Gotta agree with prior posters - this isn't bleaching, nor does it look like predation. Frag the tips and treat with an antibacterial agent just in case.

 

[Sue Truett]

I would frag the tips only and try to salvage something of it. It doesn't look promising just due to the condition of the tips. It doesn't look good. If this happened overnight I wouldn't really consider it RTN. I don't see any tissue flaking. It may be SDR, shutdown responce.

 

[trido]

It may be SDR, shutdown responce.

Sue, can you explain? Ive never heard of this before.

 

[Sue Truett]

SDR is where the coral just completely stops thriving and begins to go into decline. It may be a newly introduced frag or I have heard of well established colonies doing this although new frags are more apt to do this. They just begin to go downhill and nothing you can do will help them. I'm sure there is a more scientific explanation but this is the way I understand it.

 

[Anonymous]

Basically the coral died for some unexpalined reason.

Sue what brings you over from MARSH? Nice to see you here.

 

[Sue Truett]

hey Mark, I seldom post over there, I mostly check this good forum and a couple of others out. 8)

 

[trido]

Thank you Sue.