Acropora tip burn

[Snappy]

Tony I see recession at the bases too. I think there must be something toxic in your water or the air getting pumped into the system.

[Jason McK]

I agree with Greg. I'd run some Carbon and if you have a UV get it going. Do you run Ozone? or any bacteria based addatives (Zeovit)

J

[Reefer Rob]

Are you running any nitrate reducer or chemical filtration? Some of these will strip the water of trace elements. Just a thought.

[Delphinus]

I am running carbon now.

I don't have a UV. If this was your tank would you consider buying a UV? Or ozone? ..

I was running Zeovit for a while, also ran Reef-resh before that. Not currently running either of those at the moment though. But I am using Taylor's "NO3 Destroyer".

I did in the past try a sulfur denitrator on this tank, but it never worked, so I gave up on that idea. That was nearly two years ago, would there be any residual sulfates? Even if there were, I thought they were supposed to be inert?

Throw some polyfilter into the mix maybe?? If it's something toxic I don't know what else I can do. Basically all I can think of is things like Chemi-pure, copious carbon, and polyfilter. I guess I can try UV but I don't just have the understanding behind it to know what size and flowrate to look for.

[Samw]

I had the same problems in the past. Things turned around for my Acroporas when I started running a UV while all else stayed constant and I was finally able to keep Acroporas alive and growing for about a year. Then, they started slowly dying again. My theory was that some kind of bacteria/vibrio was killing them and the UV sterilizer helped. When I neglected to change the UV bulb, the bacteria came back and I slowly lost all of my Acropora.

[fencer]

I prefer ozone because it will also take out any (some)toxins UV is only biological. You didn't say if the pieces died eventually or they just suffered that tip burn and lived.

[Jason McK]

The Reason I asked about the Bacteria based systems is that I did not want to recomment UV or Ozone to someone running that kind of sytem. Both UV and Ozone would destroy the bacteria.

This is my thoughts as Well. I think Brad had a treatment for vibrio at one time

Originally Posted by Samw

I had the same problems in the past. Things turned around for my Acroporas when I started running a UV while all else stayed constant and I was finally able to keep Acroporas alive and growing for about a year. Then, they started slowly dying again. My theory was that some kind of bacteria/vibrio was killing them and the UV sterilizer helped. When I neglected to change the UV bulb, the bacteria came back and I slowly lost all of my Acropora.

J

[NAS]

I see in the back ground that you have a colt coral??? Or some leather by the looks of it. Try (Gasp) running activated carbon for about a week, and crank up your skimmer. A quick scrup will help take any organic toixins out. You will have to keep an eye on your trace's but a regular dose should be fine.

That's my two bits....

PS: The carbon wont be harmfull in the short term regardless of which carbon school of thought you subscribe to.

[Flipside]

You know what else it might be? too much circulation blowing in one continues direction at the coral tips. Are you running some type of wavemaker so you dont have your powerheads blowing so hard continuesly off the tip or your corals.
maybe your temperature fluctuates too much? all these things I mentioned could have a great deal on the matter. maybe all or some combined. or your PH as well. You didnt mention your PH. maybe its too low or too high or it fluctuates between lights being on and off.
Worse case, you should take the burnt tips off to prevent spreading. otherwise you'll loose the whole piece. those are nice collection you got ther.