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d3rryc
Mon, 23rd Feb 2009, 02:11 PM
I left town for the weekend and came back to find a green monti cap with a big white patch in the middle of it. The bleached area in the middle is ringed by a light brown area that looks like the coral expelling its zooxanthellae. From this morning to lunch, it does look like the bleached area is expanding. I've got a second green cap and an orange cap in this tank that are both doing just fine. Any ideas what might be causing this?

Derry

Current params:
Salinity 1.026
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 0
Phosphate 0
pH 8.3
dKH 13
Ca 320
(I got a bad Ca test kit that was throwing my readings off for a while - need to bring dKH down and Ca up)

Bill S
Mon, 23rd Feb 2009, 10:44 PM
Any chance anything else from the tank fell there, and then blew off or moved off? Like an anemone or another coral?

glennr1978
Tue, 24th Feb 2009, 02:07 AM
nudis?

d3rryc
Tue, 24th Feb 2009, 10:03 AM
Bill, there's always the possibility that something contacted the monti, but I haven't seen anything more dangerous than the occasional snail.

Glenn, no sign of nudis. I took a really close look last night, and I can't see anything that resembles either eggs or the nudibranchs themselves.