Plum Crazy Acro Problem

[greenmonkey51]

I had some algae get caught on this acro. There was a couple white patch from that and I was fine with it since I was sure it would recover. Well today I noticed some white areas around some coralites. Here's a pic of what I'm talking about. The right half shows what I'm concerned about.

 

[jmp21677]

I just lost colony of this, not sure why but it never really seemed to settle in to the tank.

 

[returnofsid]

Mine is still doing very well. I will watch it close though. I'd suggest you dab superglue on those white spots. This will keep algae from growing there. The coral will encrust over the superglue.

 

[surf_buddy]

Mine is still doing very well. I will watch it close though. I'd suggest you dab superglue on those white spots. This will keep algae from growing there. The coral will encrust over the superglue.

Great advice... I plan on doing this tomorrow on a coral that has the same issue with algae.

 

[returnofsid]

Learned this trick from Kevin. It's saved a couple corals for me.

 

[greenmonkey51]

I think its to wide spread for the super glue trick. Its not really tissue recession. It could be some small bleaching. I did change my bulb last week, and a couple days ago took off the 2 layers of screen I was using for photo acclimating.

 

[soyadrink]

Does it get very direct flow? sometimes when there is too much flow on the SPS the flesh literally gets blown away and algae settles, happened to a few of my corals but when I moved them they grew back just fine.

 

[roscoe]

To me it looks like it has been infected by AEFW. Try doing a melafix dip and see if oval shaped whitish tan colored stuff come off of it. Mix 1qt. of salt water to 5ml of melafix.

 

[greenmonkey51]

I will check when I wake up, but before I went to work the white areas weren't really there. It was just sliming up a bit. This coral is perplexing me. I think the best option is to do nothing at all. I'll do a water change, but I think its got to make a move one way or another before I'll do any drastic measures. Also it doesn't get that direct of flow. Its towards the bottom where there is a nice gentle flow.