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Posted: December 17 2004 at 11:53am |
Hello,
Once a coral starts to turn White is there any way of “reversing” the spreading effect?
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Jera
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Posted: December 17 2004 at 12:41pm |
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Feed it.
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Posted: December 17 2004 at 12:52pm |
If that does not work, you can try to do some water changes as it might be related to the problem.
Or start to frag it to hopefully save the parts of the colony you can.
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Posted: December 17 2004 at 1:20pm |
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What type of coral is it and how fast is it turning white?
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Posted: December 17 2004 at 1:40pm |
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Depending on the strain of coral, you may be able to surgically remove the already dead areas, so that the decay doesn't cause additional problems and hopefully slow/stop spreading.
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Shrooms
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Posted: December 17 2004 at 2:27pm |
You are all awesome! Thanks!
I have a hot pink birds nest and it's been turning white this past week...
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Jera
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Posted: December 17 2004 at 2:50pm |
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If you can...without alarming it changing where it is located in the tank may help i.e. closer to light, farther away, away from high flow area, closer to high flow, but in my experience with such a coral (pink birds nest can be very difficult, and not very hardy) I'd say there is no hope for it, but I would be very happy if you could turn it around. If you prove me wrong...kudos.
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Posted: December 17 2004 at 2:52pm |
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Oh and of course you need to be making sure the calcium and alkalinity are good enough to support such a coral.
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Posted: December 17 2004 at 2:53pm |
oh and temp. and thats about it. 
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Posted: December 18 2004 at 9:03am |
In case you didn't realize it, SMatney's current thread titled something like "Living in an RTN World" is this very same topic. Go over there and read what we've had to say. 
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