Acro - White Band Disease

[marinehobbist]

I would like to have advise on what is this white band disease that will kill your acro. You will find that your acro turned all white. Does this mean that acro has passed away or can still be saved? Tks for feedback and advice.

Cheers

[jd_n]

White-band disease causes tissue to peel off the skeleton at a fairly uniform rate, beginning at the base of the colony and progressing towards the branch tips.

The band may be a few millimeters or up to 10 cm wide. Tissue loss is about 5 mm per day. Exposed skeleton is eventually colonized by algae. And yes, ur acro is a gonner

[lightningstrike]

juz curious to know any remedy for this disease???

[jd_n]

juz curious to know any remedy for this disease???

Nope.....no cure.

[lightningstrike]

Nope.....no cure.

like that huh???? equivalent to the human AIDS...... so sad

[marinehobbist]

Is it because of water condition or any particular reason for white band disease to appear?

[FuEl]

Hmmm...is this the same as RTN or 2 different things?

[jd_n]

WBD are yet to be determined by sciencetist but disease in corals is caused by a number of micro-organisms including bacteria, fungi, and cyanobacteria. Under normal conditions, corals co-exist happily with microbes which are abundant in the marine environment. However, when corals are stressed by high temperatures, increased nutrient concentrations or sediment, these microbes may cause disease.

WBD would be more like STN coz the tissue receeding slowly unlike RTN which is instantaneously.

[tineng]

Arrrgghhh....my pump to the chiller today broke down.....by the time i reach home today, discover my temp to be at 35c....my SPS is begining to peel off at the bottom!!! but the skeleton looks green instead of white but i guess its WBD.....

Would cutting of the white part helps since i've brought the temp back to 25c and there are still a fair bit of skin left....?????

[tineng]

too late! as of this morning, left with a complete white skeleton....anyway, can i just leave the SPS there or have to take out and dispose?