SPS suck

[Canadbis]

Excuse the Newbe in this case, but would the SPS recover from this?

[OCDP]

Nope. It's super hard to save an RTN'ing SPS coral. The only chance of survival is to frag off where the tissue is not coming off. Then pray for the best.... but once all the tissue is gone, you have nothing but a skeleton, and I am pretty darn sure they don't come back to life .. it sucks.

[christyf5]

RTN is one of those things you don't really get the opportunity to see in action, let alone have time to do anything about it. Once it starts its very hard to stop. My guess is that its usually bacterial and for some reason its more likely to happen overnight (at least in my case anyways ). RTN is pretty much a "catch-all" phrase for "instantaneous" SPS death.

[Atomikk]

Have you considered that it might be a stray electrical current?

[OCDP]

Originally Posted by Atomikk

Have you considered that it might be a stray electrical current?

If that's the case, wouldn't that effect other inhabitants, being fish and corals, inverts, etc....?

[fresh]

I think it is a case of stress (duhhhh)

For me, my coral rtn'd when I handled it too much while I was glueing it to a plug! A day latter, it came off the plug, so I took it out and glued it again!!! The next day, it rtn'd.

I am very sure that mine died from over handling!!! Now I was fortunate enough to see it rtn right infront of my eyes the next morning just before lights-on. I took it out, cut the good pieces and glued them to a differnt plug, and the newly cut pieces survived.

For you guys, something must have changed in your tanks to cause the coral to stress out. It can be some inhabitant inside the tank that was stressing the coral. Or it can simply be the allignment of the stars that night

For your general information, the RTN'ing is very peculiar to witness!!! It is as if the coral is shedding and the coloured "skin" just simply comes off the coral!

Just my 2 cents.

[danny zubot]

That'll do it.