SPS Tissue

[gjuarez]

You might want to start fragging. More often than not the tissue just keeps receeding. I remember giving a dying colony to a friend, pretty much just the tips were living. THat thing took off in his tank and regrew all the tissue.

If you do decide to bring you alk lower, do it very slowly. Slowly dose a little bit of the calcium to help offset the alk. Alk can cause the PH to fluctuate that why its reccomended to do it slowly.

[cbianco]

You might want to start fragging. More often than not the tissue just keeps receeding. I remember giving a dying colony to a friend, pretty much just the tips were living. THat thing took off in his tank and regrew all the tissue.

Fragging would be fruitless. Too many holes to make a clean cut. I couldn't save but maybe a 1/2 inch at most.

If you do decide to bring you alk lower, do it very slowly. Slowly dose a little bit of the calcium to help offset the alk. Alk can cause the PH to fluctuate that why its reccomended to do it slowly.

Should I dose white vinegar (and calcium) to bring the alk down?

Will additional calcium dosing bring the alk down on its own?

[gjuarez]

I dont know about the vinegar or the effects it will have on the alk.

Dosing calcium should be helpful in bringing down the alk. Check the parameters constantly. Take it slow

[cbianco]

I've dosed 2.5ml of calcium twice throughout the afternoon. I'm not dosing anymore until tomorrow.

The tissue on this frag almost seems to have stopped receding. Obviously, I will have to give it a few days to see the true end result of my melting coral. I am hoping for the best.

Christopher

EDIT: Jerry reminded me below, I also did a 5 gallon water change.

[gjuarez]

Good luck once again. I hope someone else chimes in to see what they would do to bring ALK down. Cant go wrong with aggressive water changes

[JimD]

A picture would help, it may not be RTN at all, it could be one of several things.. Adding vinegar will dramaticly affect your Ph, not so much your Alk. If you want to lower Alk, discontinue the addition of the Alk part of the B-Ionic and only add the Ca. and continue with regular water changes untill its in range, I like to keep mine around 8 Dkh. If its RTN, it can and will pread to other near by corals. Best to do is to segregate the effected coral and place into a Q. tank. Gonna need a good pic first..