frag starting to STN

[lorenz0]

well i was hoping this would never happen but i came home tonight and noticed that my purple slimmer sps frag is starting to STN. also on of my mille frags is showing some white spots and a few nights ago i noticed my emerald crag on the slimmer and found a black crab that looks like an emerald on the mille. Everything else is looking good and tonight i will be doing all my tests to see if i have any issues there. I have extremely careful with what goes into my tank and lately i have opened up to a few different sources. I traded with a member some colonies for some frags and the colonies all stn'd on him.

Corals aren't getting blasted by a powerhead, i am 2 days behind on my water change schedual but i don't think thats where my problem lies, i also have some cyano (sp) algae forming in a corner (probably due to lack of flow back there). but the slimmer has been growing great since i purchased it 3 months ago so this is a suprise for me. anyone with experience with stn'ing in coral please give me some insight to what your issue was so i can look into it in my tank.

[christyf5]

check your alkalinity and run carbon. I don't know what else to suggest.

what are your tank parameters?

[fishytime]

What she said Get in there and crazyglue the edge between the living and dead tissue...that might stop it from progressing.

[Jason McK]

Sorry to hear of your issues lorenz0, Seems to be a spring thing. double check your perameters, run carbon, and try and clip the pieces

J

[lobsterboy]

Originally Posted by christyf5

check your alkalinity and run carbon. I don't know what else to suggest.

+1

Originally Posted by fishytime

What she said Get in there and crazyglue the edge between the living and dead tissue...that might stop it from progressing.

+1

Originally Posted by Jason McK

Seems to be a spring thing. double check your perameters, run carbon, and try and clip the pieces

J

+1
I had a buddy of mine tell me, that when spring time comes that he sees a spike in his phospahtes.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

I have been going through the same thing the past few weeks! Really sucks.

My ALK was low but even after raising it and everything looked ok, I have noticed today some more STN.

[Jason McK]

Yup I'm lossing quite a bit myself.

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by lorenz0

well i was hoping this would never happen but i came home tonight and noticed that my purple slimmer sps frag is starting to STN. also on of my mille frags is showing some white spots and a few nights ago i noticed my emerald crag on the slimmer and found a black crab that looks like an emerald on the mille. Everything else is looking good and tonight i will be doing all my tests to see if i have any issues there. I have extremely careful with what goes into my tank and lately i have opened up to a few different sources. I traded with a member some colonies for some frags and the colonies all stn'd on him.

Corals aren't getting blasted by a powerhead, i am 2 days behind on my water change schedual but i don't think thats where my problem lies, i also have some cyano (sp) algae forming in a corner (probably due to lack of flow back there). but the slimmer has been growing great since i purchased it 3 months ago so this is a suprise for me. anyone with experience with stn'ing in coral please give me some insight to what your issue was so i can look into it in my tank.

I bought 2 emerald crabs a while back and they both were stripping the bases of my acro frags starting where the frags were encrusting the bases up about 1/2". Make sure those crabs of yours arent causing problems

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Jason McK

Yup I'm lossing quite a bit myself.

Jeez! You too! I am sorry to hear this Jason. Man this is a bad time for a lot of tanks

[lorenz0]

thanks guys, ya tomorrow is my day off so i am going to be a mad scientistwith the test kits. will post parameters.

also will probably pick up some carbon and run it in the phosban reactor since its not being used at the time. thanks for all the suggestions guys

But wow, weird to hear how alot of people are also getting stn right now... something is in the air and i am not liking it lol