Can STN be reversed?

[Sharkey18]

I have a medium sized galaxia that has STN. I have placed it in an area of very high flow and am hoping to reverse the STN. Is this possible?

Has anyone ever done it before or is it a lost cause.

 

Laura

[Leishman]

I have a medium sized galaxia that has STN. I have placed it in an area of very high flow and am hoping to reverse the STN. Is this possible?

Has anyone ever done it before or is it a lost cause.

 

Laura

 

 

I cut off the dead part (and a little of the living tissue) and then do what you have already done. (Dont put it in too high flow)

[Origami]

I cut off the dead part (and a little of the living tissue) and then do what you have already done. (Dont put it in too high flow)

 

Agreed. The "N" in STN means necrosis, or "dead." And dead is dead. Cut all of the dead area off in hopes of stopping the spread and maybe the good part will recover. Good luck Laura!

[bshriver]

Plus 1

 

I have had large colonies rtn and stopped it just in time and saved small pieces that have lived.

[lanman]

Sometimes a nice long bath in Revive helps, too. Judging from my latest attempt - looks like I saved 2 out of three pieces of an acro. STN is nefarious - This small colony of a very nice coral started to STN from one branch. I cut off the branch, and a bit of the tissue surrounding it. Day later, it was spreading again - cut the coral in half - almost an inch from the dead tissue. Next day - it was spreading again. Fragged off all the remaining branches, soaked them in Revive for 15 minutes, and it looks like two of the three pieces will survive, even though one branch only has 1/2" of living coral left. NO obvious reason for it to start dying back.

 

With RTN, you just have to be lucky - catch it when it first starts, and realize it's RTN, and cut off a frag from WAY on the other side of the coral. I had a 6" in diameter monti cap RTN to 0" in diameter in under 24 hours. I had a 10" colony of blue-tip staghorn RTN down to a couple of frags in 48 hours. And I caught that one early!

 

bob

[Jan]

Any idea what caused it? I've had success with cutting dead tissue off upto the good tissue and then some, as Leishman suggested, and then using a little diluted coral dip, Lugols or reef dip, then glue on newly cut edge with moderate to high flow. Mine was from another coral stinging it about 3 days ago. Seems to be healing nicely.

 

I have a medium sized galaxia that has STN. I have placed it in an area of very high flow and am hoping to reverse the STN. Is this possible?

Has anyone ever done it before or is it a lost cause.

 

Laura

[Sharkey18]

Cool.... The flesh on my galaxia has almost completely receded... there are small areas at either end that still have flesh, but since putting it in the higher flow (and moving it from the death tank to the main tank) the polyps seem to extended...even in the areas with the missing flesh. So maybe it's not completely dead. I'm watching it closely to see what happens.

 

I did have an acro that RTN's and I could only get the tiniest tip of it fragged and now it's about 3/4". So it that case fragging worked. Thanks for the advice.

 

Laura