Saving my purple milli from a bacteria infection

[jackri]

The bacteria infection is my best guess -- they start from the base and melt the flesh off the coral and work up. Lighting/flow/parameters weren't the problem the best I can tell but I fragged the heck out of it and came out with 28 savagable frags -- which I'd rather have my nice big piece back. Anyways -- pics to follow:

 

[nissan577]

sucks for what happnd. atleast you got lots of frags!

 

[aquaguy24]

Did u look closely for parasites. Keep an eye for near by corals.

 

[aquaguy24]

My red monti cap was bleaching from underneath and I had no clue why. Untill I looked very closely to find a couple monti eating nudibranch.

 

[jackri]

Nothing's been added for many months and all other corals are healthy but I've been lookings really closely.. and will continue but great reminder on parasites.

 

[jackri]

7 of the 28 frags had some infection so far... refragged 6 of them into 10 and lost 1
I hope it stops and my frags save.

 

[aquaguy24]

Sorry to hear. I hate when something happens that can't be explained. Hope it doesn't infect ur other sps. Good luck.

 

[tizzo]

My rose is doing the same.
A guy on our local reef club has been experimenting with human antibiotic dips with much success. I shoulda remembered which medicine he was using but maybe I'll try what I have here on mine and see if it works...
Millies seem prone to bacterial infections.

 

[ackerman]

How are the frags doing? If u need a healthy one let me know I can get u a frag of the one u gave me.

 

[spanko]

Sounds like RTN to me. (Rapid tissue necrosis). Hard to nail down the cause of this usually. Any swing in temperature lately?

 

[stanlalee]

my pink mille did the same thing over night. I fragged it and the RTN stopped for a month then started again. By the time it was done all I was able to save was a single 1" frag. that frag has done excellent for 4 months with no signs of any RTN and has better polyp extension than the original colony. thats why RTN is so fustrating. the frag never left the same water as the colony, never got more light, never got dipped or treated. I doubt anybody will figure out the cause definatively anytime soon if ever. Dipping the corals in coral dip is worth a shot. some claim to be effective at microbial attacks and I know they sometimes work for STN. not much you can do when half the coral is a skeleton overnight like mine was.

 

[jackri]

I think I lost about a total of 12 frags, saved about 25 frags of it. Funny, the orginal mother colony is starting to recover and growing back in 7 or 8 spots where the bleaching stopped on its own.
Side note... my bottlebrush was faded from the bottom (I thought maybe lack of light on the underside). Well started to bleach in the frag tank, a day later gone. I have 7 or 8 frags of that in the frag tank as well all doing good. I was going to frag it but time constraints it's like one of those things you'll get to but you don't until it's too late.
It's a good thing I have lots of frags left of it to replace it with (which is the whole point of fragging)