Blastos Dead??!!!??!! Help

[b0bby1]

i've been having some problems lately with my corals. first of all, about three days ago one of my candy cane heads was almost completly bare. it is growing back a little now though. next my RPE turned bell shaped, but some look like they are coming back to normal. so i wake up today hoping everything stopped getting sick and was getting better, wrong. i looked at my rare blasto merletties and a colony of 4 of them was totaly gone. will these grow back? what caused this?

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

Tissue necrosis/die off/melting is usually a result of poor water parameters. Which params I do not know. Have you tested the gammit lately?

[b0bby1]

not since last week...i'm ordering a salifert test kit (pH, ALK, Nitrate, and Ca). i go once a week to the LFS to get my water tested. i am going today though, he usually tells me what i have wrong. the only things i have had problems with is the ALK and pH. ph was 7.8 and brought it back to 8.2 in 3 days. the ALK has been a little on the low side for the past month i'd say. i think i need to do a pretty big water change today though. will my corals grow back though?

[Uploadead]

You will have to wait and see. The blasto may now catch brown jelly, it may not.

[b0bby1]

wuts brown jelly? and if its bad should i just throw the skeleton out. i have another frag of the same kind.

[E-A-G-L-E-S]

Both alk and ph NEED to be stable. That is where your problem lies I'm guessing. Do you use a two part or dose anything for your alk. & calcium levels?

[ServantSoldier]

how did the results turn out and was that other frag that survived in the same tank?

[b0bby1]

my water parameters are fine. i maintain my tank well. but ya the other colony of the same merlettis are in the same tank, and they are fine. what is brown jelly?

[RichConley]

Honestly, IMO, you're better off not knowing what your pH is. Alk is WAY more important, and people tend to screw up their Alk trying to move pH.

[b0bby1]

well thats good to know, cus i just made an order of test kits. salifert calcium, ALK, and nitrate. aquarium pharmacutials for pH. i guess i made the right decision.

[tankbuilder]

Hi everyone. Just got into blastos myself last Feb. Got a couple of loose frags with my order so I mounted them on rock rubble. One died, but I left it cause there is another frag on the other end of the rock. Yesterday I noticed two new babies on the side of the skeleton. So I guess it is possible that yours will come back. Mine did after about 5 months. Good luck!