Acro bleaching!

[Toadally]

Once acro starts bleaching from the base will it stop or continue until the colony dies? Thanks for any and all replies!

[mpoletti]

Bleaching from the base? or STN? Do you have any pics. Corals usually do not bleach from the base up.

[Toadally]

It is turning white at the base and also about midway. It's a small frag that I've only had about three weeks. Don't have a pic....sorry!

[Toadally]

ok, here are a couple of pics I just took. It's the small frag at the top. You can see the bleaching in the middle and at the base. Thanks!

http://www.myshutterspace.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=00675bhzjo9bm

[sld123]

it looks like stn or rtn not bleaching. you should try to frag it a little above the white part and get rid of the rest . it will ussally continue to die . sometimes you can save a frag of it most times the whole thing dies even if you frag it

[mpoletti]

Yep, That looks like it is peeling to me. If its just a small frag, you can try to frag it, nut I would just ditch it.

[Toadally]

May be due to a large swing with my alk. It was at 6 meq/L and has dropped to about 3.5 meq/L now just within the last few days. My Ca. is still up around 520, you think I should start dosiing kalk again? I stopped because the alk. and Ca. had gotten so high from using a faulty test kit and what I thought was the right adjustments.

[steve70]

What is your Mg?

[Toadally]

Mg is 1440

[ptr13]

I have had similar problems,I read in sprungs book that it may be due iodine deficiency and lack of flow. So I increased flow to my sps and it seems like it slowed down the stn or rtn in one of my acros. I also had to frag my teal stag to a few pieces because it would have just died. So far I am just monitoring the tank closely,i am not too sure what the causes are but share some thoughts and answers if you get any.