Someone with a stable sps system save this frag ! Please

[Wrasse&reefs]

So guys to make this short this piece has been doing outstanding in my tank up until last week I noticed it has browned out and ever so slowly over the week it has STN'd less than a centimeter a day but still noticeable but polyps still come out which confuses me.... Anyways I'm not sure what's going on in my tank my Params were stable since they were added but I went on a short week vacation, go figure that the person I left in charge of my tank didn't do a good job. He over feed way too much led to massive algae spike which I have since controlled with a gfo reactor, I'm almost positive he didn't dose at all everything looked pissy when I got back but I have since got everything looking good again except for this one piece I would be pissed to lose this frag because he was careless it was a beautiful green/teal base color with pinkish purple tips and electric blue encrusting growth. So my proposal is anyone generous enough to pick it up and keep it alive may keep the entire mini colony on the basis that I may get Like an inch frag back when my tank has proved to be stable again ! Will post pics soon and I realize I Probobly should have started it earlier but I kept hoping it would stop and regrow over those parts, so thanks in advance to anyone considering helping me out I wouldn't have words to thank you for saving such a beautiful piece

[Wrasse&reefs]

https://imgur.com/a/zwYT3

Here's the poor frag as of today at 12:30

https://imgur.com/a/e7UoR

Other side of the stn frag also which is Wierd cause it started from the base up but only on half of it so far

https://imgur.com/a/GgERZ

And here's what it looked like when it was happy

[Dreamkeeper]

Where are you located?

[Wrasse&reefs]

Where are you located?

Relatively close I'm located in Murrieta/menifee area

[CMD2213]

How are your parameters?
Any other sps in the tank having issues?
Any aiptasia touching it's base? Hopefully.someine can save it

[jschnepf]

Yeah from the pic I would blame the aptasia for sure. And from the looks of it, moving to a new tank to save it will most likely not work. Once sps has stn'd as much as that it is hard to get it to recover and the stress of moving it to a new tank is going to make it worse. Just kill all the aptasia near it and hope that it makes a comeback in your tank. Just my opinion, but its based on quite a few similar experiences.

[Wrasse&reefs]

Just this one. I ran out of alk reagent over the time I was gone but cal and mag seemed to be fine when I checked this morning. I assumed the aips at first too but after watching that spot for like 20 minutes I never once saw any part of an anemone come close to actually touching the top of the plug

Edit: just saw you're post jschnepf I must of missed something then. back to boiling RO water and stabbing them with needles I guess

[jschnepf]

Yeah, but at night aptasia can easily triple in size, and their little tentacles can extend pretty far to sting other nearby corals.

[Wrasse&reefs]

Terrible I didn't know poor coral, i put a filefish in the tank to get rid of the aiptasia a few days ago so hopefully he will start eating them soon

[jschnepf]

I wouldn't wait for him to eat the ones closest to your sps frags. Hit them with a syringe filled with "kalk paste". CVS or walmart will sell you a syringe and if you don't have any calcium hydroxide walmart should have some mrs wages pickling lime as well. Its worth the time to get the stuff, you will use it again for sure.

[CMD2213]

They are pest and can cost you some corals

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[Wrasse&reefs]

They are pest and can cost you some corals

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To say the least they are definitely annoying... I have since Killed off all nems in the direct vicinity and I believe the stn has slowed or maybe even stopped I'm hoping a few more days will tell. Got myself another test kit for alk yesterday along with some sweet coral 30% off for Father's Day gotta love those deals haha. But for those wondering if it is a water condition my alkalinity read 8.2 dKH calcium was at 400 ppm and mag was at 1330-1340 a little bit on the lower side of cal and mag, 8.2 is where I've tried to keep my dKH but it's fluctuated between that and 9 before with no ill effects. Quick pic of the new pickups

https://imgur.com/a/8ObPN

[naso tang]

Well whether it got stung or not, i think it's likely a goner. I need a filefish myself i think...


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[crabbysd]

so Im kinda baffeled as to how a week of overfeeding zapped your tank so hard man. that bites. this year the tank gods have truly tested me by zapping my skimmers, the talbot destrotying my dsb, my hob fuge dying on the 30g sps tank and puking dead macro crap into it and also I nuked my corraline in the dt with light shock etc etc. And I only lost 2 sps between them. one of those i actually still have a frag of that I cut and saved. Plus I manually dose (somtimes) and dont use gfo.

are you on led? it is possible your bud bumped the lights (and over fed)? with the gfo Im kinda suspicious the it stripped po outta the water too fast and the dosing changes were maybe too quick.

as an sps newb Im totally curious.

Heck I still cant figure out how I havent killed the sticks I got from Naso tang.

[Kris]

I've been feeding my fish more for the last week (new fish intro) and the aptasia which were few have multiplied (or come out of the rock work) with a vengeance. +1 filefish. The Tusk I acquired supposedly has a hardy taste for shrimp!

dKh flux appears to promote STN, just like Disney promotes alligators!