Acro with RTN

Hey Guys,

I got a big chuck of wild acro about two weeks ago.

Over the last two days it has started to go white at the base, white at the tips with browning and the "skin" has started to peel away.... Its like the tissue is falling off it.

When you look at it at night there are clear areas that show no flourescence etc and look just dead.

My question is, if I just leave it in there, is it likely to cause a decrease in water quality? with the production of nitrates and ammonia? Which could be deterimental to the other live stock/inverts?

Or will it just end up completely bleaching over?

I had it in direct flow from an MP10 and its under the most light possible from my 150W 3W CREE LED fixture.

 

My set up clearly isn't ready for SPS. Will be going back to the drawing board and setting up some more bits and peices to try and get ready down the track.

What do you guys think are the most successful aspects and tricks to keeping SPS?

PS. Mods after someone tells me if leaving it in there will rot my tank, feel free to move this thread.

 

It will not cause harm to your tank. Sorry to hear. Acro's are tricky.

 

Wild acro... As in direct from the ocean or maricultured and it's called a wild acro?

If its truly wild then they are a lot harder to keep and your system has to be spot on. Mariculture sps is a lot easier as usually they have several generations that has been grown in captivity.

Kevin

 

I try to avoid wild pieces as much as possible.

The piece being wild definitely made it more difficult to keep, but until you get the algae issues under control and the tank ages for a couple more months I would save your money.

With what is left of the piece try a different location.

Sps are tricky in an established tank (1 year or more), for some reason they just do better in aged tanks. Also go with Birds Nest, Pocillopora and Montipora, if you can get them to thrive you're one step closer to more difficult Acropora.

Moved to---------SPS.

 

Thanks. It was pretty dissapointing because it did look really nice. and I got a nice little commesal crab out of it

It was a peice of acro 10cm by 10cm, not on a frag plug, but it was just a big chunk of wild acro. As far as i know straight from the ocean. I have one frag of aquacultured acro and that is doing OK atm.

Im not sure if any of it is salvagable. Great, i will try one of those species later down the track.

Is there any peices of equipment that sps need? I think a good start would be an ATO to make sure the salinity stays right. I have a chiller running now to maintain a consistent temperature. I think I need to invest in another MP10 or maybe even a 40 and a dosing system. I have also been considering starting to run biopellets for my algae issues. Are biopellets beneficial to SPS?

 

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A wild acro usually is a death sentence in our tanks, with whats left, try in a shaded area on the sandbed. My LFS's wild and mari cultured acros usually come from ~30' down or further, then we put them under 12"-20" deep tanks under lights that represent full noon for 10 hours a day. these corals simply can't handle that right off the bat.