Is it dying????

[Dbarnes]

So this is a fairly good sized piece of red monti cap that i have that has always done really well. However a month ago or so i was out of town for awhile and it gather sand in the middle that my goby kicked up. I cleaned it off and figured it would come back, it didnt instead the spot is growing it has probably trippled in over area in the last two weeks? can anyone explain this or has had this happen before? i have another frag that i have been growing out for about three months that is half its size and doing just fine, i also have a much larger purple monti cap that is doing great and going at least an inch a month on every side. If i can seem to figure it our and stop the spreading im going to frag everything that is left, i have already fraged a portion of it to see if it would survive and it is doing great, already healed and starting to grow. i also check my calc (480) and alk (8.0) seem to be doing good? anyone have an idea?? View attachment 4930

 

[Cake_Boss]

STN?

 

[Dbarnes]

ohhh... seems like it fits the bill. best treatment CoralRX??? also how likely is it to spread to other sps's in the tank? i dont see any signs of it else where but who knows? i also just scrped it all off.... in hien sight that may have been a bad choice.

 

[Dbarnes]

will the old area regrow if cured? or is it best to frag and be done?

 

[Cherub]

damn that sucks. Frag a big chunk first then worry about coralrx after

 

[Dbarnes]

yea thats what im thinking too, just break off whats good and move on in life lol i just want to make sure im not going to see this on other specimens, how do you prevent it or is it just something that can happen if the coral gets stressed and suffers such a wound? when i removed the sand it was deffinetly dead underneath and then it just started growing. At least its not my purple one... yet.

 

[Cake_Boss]

STN & RTN are a mystery. Will it spread? Maybe, maybe not. As Gabe said, frag it and dip the rest. I like Revive, as explained to me...CoralRx concentrated, without the buffers, and half the cost. You can also try an iodine dip or the SeaChem one (reefdip?).

 

[Dbarnes]

Ok so everything i read is it will eventually kill the entire specimen and most dip methods never reverse the damage done, so i just fragged it and did an iodine dip (as suggested on RC) on the rest of it and then placed it in my QT tank. I see no signs on anything else at all, with exception to a weak looking slimmer (it was already half dead) so end result is i have a few frags of what was once a large piece. if anyone wants it i will sell frags in 10 days once i can assure their is nothing on them and they recover. Thanks for all the help from everyone that chimed in.