frag starting to STN

lorenz0 · #1 04-29-2009, 03:07 AM

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 · #2 04-29-2009, 03:29 AM

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

what are your tank parameters?

fishytime · #3 04-29-2009, 04:29 AM

What she said

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

Jason McK · #4 04-29-2009, 04:33 AM

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 · #5 04-29-2009, 04:44 AM

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Originally Posted by christyf5

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

+1

Quote:

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

Quote:

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 · #6 04-29-2009, 04:49 AM

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.

banditpowdercoat · #7 04-29-2009, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by lobsterboy

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

Only time I have noticed Phosphates too is this spring.
Weird

Borderjumper · #8 04-29-2009, 05:01 AM

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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

Zoaelite · #9 05-30-2009, 04:16 PM

I think the STN of the colonies you traded me had more to do with the salinity in my tank, poor tri color really wanted the little guy to pull through

. I had a big brown evil acro crab that I pulled out of my pink milli colony and threw into my upstream fuge, the NEXT morning some how he found the over flow made his way through about 4 feet of loopy plumping and went right back to milli. After finding all of the chewed off tips I turned him into a crabcicle, I now have reoccurring nightmares about being eaten by giant crabs.

Quote:

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.