after power out....!

[snowmansnow]

crap... RTN is setting in .

3 major colonies so far...

i know from exp this stuff can absolutely ravage a tank... in a matter of a half day.

B

 

[mapleredta]

Can you frag the colonies instead of losing everything? I'd definitely try and get a few frags from each and place them into a entirely different system for better chance of survival.

 

[cr500_af]

I never had any luck getting frags to survive if the colony was on its way out.

Let me know when you're stable and if you had a lot of loss I've got some restarting frags for you.

 

[mapleredta]

cr500_af;641216 wrote: I never had any luck getting frags to survive if the colony was on its way out.

Let me know when you're stable and if you had a lot of loss I've got some restarting frags for you.

I was unsure if that would work. :sad:

 

[markl]

cr500_af;641216 wrote: I never had any luck getting frags to survive if the colony was on its way out.

Let me know when you're stable and if you had a lot of loss I've got some restarting frags for you.

I've had a few make it.

 

[dvara78]

I had frags make it when a colony begins to die. Just have to be quick and make sure that you clipping pieces that seem healthy.

 

[snowmansnow]

beccamc10;641217 wrote: Can anyone close to you hold your stuff

haha where I live there is NO ONE close to me.

I have had success fragging some stuff. the afffected colonies have already been fragged.

water change coming tonight with new carbon.

I'm also skimming a little wetter than normal.

B.

 

[KrisDeitz]

MarkL;641225 wrote: I've had a few make it.

Great picture lol

 

[snowmansnow]

another double fist sized colony bites the dust
fine this morning.. pure skeleton by this evening... unreal

removed it... fragged what i could (not that the frags will live) proceeded w 15g water change.

 

[cr500_af]

Keeping my fingers crossed... I'm closer than most (60 min from Centre if the wind is right), and you got some frags here when you're ready.

 

[swalke2]

Let the newb chim in. Whats RTN?

 

[mockery]

Are you still dosing zeovite? If so and you stopped during the outage some type of bacteria could have bloomed. Just and thought and good luck!

 

[cr500_af]

swalke2;641676 wrote: Let the newb chim in. Whats RTN?

Rapid Tissue Necrosis. SPS colonies will sometimes die completely in just hours. There is also STN (slow tissue necrosis).

The only time it happened to me recently, I woke up and the lowermost 1/2" of my Hawkins blue echinata was white. By 3pm the whole colony was toast. It was the only coral affected, and I fragged the top before the RTN got that far, but the frag didn't live.

 

[snowmansnow]

Mockery;641688 wrote: Are you still dosing zeovite? If so and you stopped during the outage some type of bacteria could have bloomed. Just and thought and good luck!

that is a thought.. .but i can't prove it or disprove it :/

up water changes , change carbon, skim wet, hope

 

[mvm]

I can say from my limited experience that RTN will stop if conditions improve. When my last tank crashed (34 gallon), I noticed RTN and took a turkey baster to one of the colonies. The tissue blew off easily. All of my corals had RTN. I did a 50+ percent water change, and many of the colonies that started the RTN recovered. I don't think it's safe to say all RTN corals need to be fragged to be saved. I think it is more safe to say that they conditions need to improve rapidly to save corals. Often the RTN corals are fragged and put back in the water that caused them to RTM in the first place. JMO.

 

[snowmansnow]

Hawkins has it now

 

[gmpolan]

sorry to hear man....:/

 

[corigan]

Sorry to hear it, I've been going through much the same watching colony after colony die. It is a rough experience.

 

[snowmansnow]

IME it takes 3 or 4 days before it runs its course... hopefully I'll have something left haha.

If not... well...

I guess I get to reaquascape

B