Sps : is it growth or bad news ?

Hi reefers,
I have these frags couple if weeks ago and i start now noticing white spot and i wonder if it is beginning of a growth or bleach?
Any experience with these ?

 

You should really only see white at the very tips. Loss of zooxanthellae should be uniform not here and there. Unfortunately it might be actual tissue loss.

If you can get a macro shot or blow of the image by cropping it a definitive decision regarding if it's actual tissue loss will be much easier.

 

Corailline is entirely right. My expertise of late in the field of SPS seems to be in identifying depressing news. I'm afraid this doesn't look so good (though the coral still looks well enough to recover if you can identify the cause of your troubles. Perhaps alk is too high? Perhaps more expert folks have other ideas?)

 

Bad news. You can see algae on the white part, signaling the loss of tissue.

 

If you have some amino acids consider an amino dip.

 

Is it being blasted with water flow directly from one side by a pump? As stated above, I agree it's tissue loss unfortunately but still manageable and able to recover if you ID the issue.

 

I am in agreement. I have seen the same tissue loss with too much flow.

 

guys thx for promp reply, i doubt it is too much flow , as my tank have several soft coral , so i go softy on this, true hard to say, i ll read about the idea of amino acid, i ll check calcium and kh too
thanks all

 

too much flow won't hurt it, but i was regarding to direct flow from a pump blasting right at the coral or close to it. it happened to me before and i thought it was stn but after feeling around the tank while cleaning, i noticed that one of my powerheads where really kicking out flow right onto the frag. i repositioned the pump and a week later the coral healed.

 

thx rcflyer, will check that out too...will keep u all posted.