seminolecpa
Past President
Let me start that I now have had confirmation from 2 very reliable reefers (one of who has had them before) as well as my own observations that it is not AEFW nor is it red bugs.
Ok so here is the story. Several of my acros and millis are STNing from the base. This has been going on for several weeks now and again the recession is very very slow. All of my monti's, chalices, acans, micros and zoas and several other acros and millis look great.
Here is what I have done since making this discovery
1) test my water about every 3rd day. All parem's check out. (1.025-1.026 sal, 11dkh, 425 CA, 1400 MG temp 77.8 ph 8.4)
2) took my calcium reactor off line (before I did this my ph hovered around 8.0-7.9 and my alk was a little higher). Note this was happening before I took it off line and still continues.
3) Did some good sized water changes with something other then the usual salt mix I have been using (reef crystals). Aside from my normal 5% a week water changes I did several 20 and 30% water changes with store bought NSW.
4) fragged off the recession from a couple of the corals.
5) There is no pattern to the recession. That is it isn't in one are of my tank.
6) current tank inhabitents (1 Foxface, 1 sixline wrasse, 1 harlequin shrimp, maybe 4 turbo snails, and possibly 2 emerald crabs (I haven't seen them in quite a while.
I have seen some astrenas on the front glass but they look like the harmless diatom eating ones and I do not see any around the affected corals.
So with that ....... any thoughts? I am not sure what else to try. I have at least in the interim fraged a couple of pieces from the affected corals and did a 15 min dip in TMPCC followed by a 5 min dip in Revive Coral Cleaner and accelerated the startup of my frag tank (which is not on line with my main tank).
Ok so here is the story. Several of my acros and millis are STNing from the base. This has been going on for several weeks now and again the recession is very very slow. All of my monti's, chalices, acans, micros and zoas and several other acros and millis look great.
Here is what I have done since making this discovery
1) test my water about every 3rd day. All parem's check out. (1.025-1.026 sal, 11dkh, 425 CA, 1400 MG temp 77.8 ph 8.4)
2) took my calcium reactor off line (before I did this my ph hovered around 8.0-7.9 and my alk was a little higher). Note this was happening before I took it off line and still continues.
3) Did some good sized water changes with something other then the usual salt mix I have been using (reef crystals). Aside from my normal 5% a week water changes I did several 20 and 30% water changes with store bought NSW.
4) fragged off the recession from a couple of the corals.
5) There is no pattern to the recession. That is it isn't in one are of my tank.
6) current tank inhabitents (1 Foxface, 1 sixline wrasse, 1 harlequin shrimp, maybe 4 turbo snails, and possibly 2 emerald crabs (I haven't seen them in quite a while.
I have seen some astrenas on the front glass but they look like the harmless diatom eating ones and I do not see any around the affected corals.
So with that ....... any thoughts? I am not sure what else to try. I have at least in the interim fraged a couple of pieces from the affected corals and did a 15 min dip in TMPCC followed by a 5 min dip in Revive Coral Cleaner and accelerated the startup of my frag tank (which is not on line with my main tank).