SPS issues?..

[ashr]

No i have not. I was going to this week tho

[ashr]

So today i think i have rtn, one of my otherr sps corals is loseing tissue. I also had flow on it and it blew more tissue off. Not sure what to do? Just frag it and see what happens??

[bkelly]

andrew the only think that comes tom mind for me is we just got the doser going perhaps something related to that, nothing fell or stung those ones did they?

[ScubaSteve]

Originally Posted by bkelly

andrew the only think that comes tom mind for me is we just got the doser going

Now there's something... Did you have a kalk swing? Are you doing 2 part or 3 part? Is the RTN patchwork or receding from bottom up? Do you have any large snails or brittle stars the are acting a bit different or "lazy"?

What other changes have you made in the past few days?

From the pictures it looks like patch-work RTN, which to me suggests a rapid drop in nutrients (hence why I asked if you changed the ROWAPhos or are running ULNS) or a toxin. Kalk fluctuations can have the same effect sometimes but normally I see that as bottom up RTN or tip down in the case of high alk in an ULNS.

[ScubaSteve]

Also, are the affected colonies close together or spread out? How many colonies seem to be affected and what species?

[ashr]

Hmm I added the doser about a month or two ago and this only stated a week or so ago.. I checked my Alk last week and it was at 6-7. Cal was at 400-425 and Mag was 1200. I have been hand dosing a new bottle of Kent Mg...

I have not changed my ROWA phos for about 4 months.

On my stag horn acro the fresh is coming off the back side of the coal where not much flow gets too.. It really came off when I brought it out of the water and flow got to it.. looks like little specs all fell off.. Its about the middle.. not coming from the top, nor from the bottom.

I also checked my Phosphate today and it was 0.00PPM

[ScubaSteve]

Ok, I don't have a solution for you just yet but there are a few things raising eyebrows. I usually see patchwork tissue loss when the nutrients are very low, especially with very low phosphate. That 0 ppm reading suggests that might be the case but I find it strange that you are getting this when you haven't changed the media recently. It's usually the drop that sets them off; however, if you've had extremely low phosphate for a while you could have been keeping them on a knife's edge and something tipped them over the edge.

The other is the doser. The timing of putting the doser online and the recession is suspicious. What's your dosing schedule like? How much of each are you adding at each interval and how frequently are you dosing? It might be causing fluctuations, especially in your pH. What were you doing for calc/alk maintenance before the doser?

[ashr]

Originally Posted by ScubaSteve

Also, are the affected colonies close together or spread out? How many colonies seem to be affected and what species?

They were not super close. No

[ashr]

This is the underside before the flow took more off.. looks much worse now