Checking out the tank tonight and I noticed something weird. Haven't really seen this before in person but does this look like my birdsnest is spawning. Anything else that would look like this on SPS? Polyp bailout maybe?


Here is the colony. It has always been healthy but not great looking. You can see the white dots that I first noticed.





A better closeup.





Closer but a little blurry.





Any thoughts?

Ok have been doing a bunch of reading and Im going to start dosing mb7 & vodka...I have a bunch of fish and my p04 stays quite high and nutrients keep my sps either tan or a brown color-not all but some......I will be posting pictures of before and throughout this experience! Im sure there are threads on here about peoples experiences......This is a cost effective wat to keep the right bacteria in the water column & vodka for export! Im sure there are many pros and cons on people experiences with a ulns system......

here is what I have as of now:
220 main tank mainly sps 4 years old
75 attached tank(refugium)
40 gallon sump
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MRC 3 Skimmer
MRC Calcium reactor
4 Tunze 6202's and 2 tunze 6055's
3 400watt radium 20k-dimmible ballast
2 250 watt 20k coralvue
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I do 30 gallon weekly water changes

and let the journey begin...I will be receiving all my stuff tomorrow..Im going to dose the mb7 for 2 weeks prior to adding vodka...Im going to dose Lugols solution daily to help with the blues & purples I have a Figi Purple t5 that should be here tomorrow to help with the yellow's & reds!

any feedback is welcome at any time any experiences that you have had speak up!


here is a pic of what I have~

Well like clock work came home from work today and my ORA Green Birdsnest was about 80% RTNed.

Last year same time my ORA Phonape did the same thing...

No a param. issue. just bad luck I guess.

I did frag about 50 1"-2" pieces and glues them to another rock I hope they make it.

4 Other Bordsnests all ok + about 100 other SPS all ok...

It's weird I loose one nice colony a year for no reason.

I hate RTN/STN! at least if I had a parasite I would know the cause and be able to treat it. All to often necrosis is just un-explainable!