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Suddenly Sick Coral

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by speshak, Jun 25, 2014.

  1. Jun 25, 2014 #1
    speshak West Des Moines

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    I have a 125G that I setup in November. I picked up six frags at Spring Fest, and most of them have been doing fine (I have a birds nest that I took a risk on that is 80% bleached, but that's a topic for another day) Yesterday 2/3rds of my candy cane started looking pretty sickly. The flesh had formed holes and was receeding up off of the skeleton. It had a brown slime & a load of pineapple sponges between the heads that I siphoned off.


    Today it has gotten worse:


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    I have resisted the urge to do anything major yet. The frag has been in the exact same spot since Spring Fest and it has been happy up until yesterday.





    About a foot down the tank from the candy cane I have an unidentified frag that is starting to show flesh receeding from several of the tips. This frag was moved higher in the tank two weeks ago, so it may be related to the change in conditions. I have moved it back to its original place for further monitoring.


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    The water params have stayed pretty stable since Jan/Feb when I got my ATO & AWC dialed in. I have 3 AI Hydras over the tank & a pair of MP40s for flow. I'm planning on running a full battery of tests tomorrow, though last weekends numbers were:


    Alk: 9.0dKh


    Ca: 550 (My salt mix runs high)


    Nitrate: 0


    Phosphate: 0





    Does anyone have any sage advice for what to do? At this point I'm planning on playing the waiting game, I'd rather take no action than the wrong action.
     
  2. Jun 26, 2014 #2
    xroads La Porte City, IA

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    It is always safe to do a good water change. They arent stinging each other are they?
     
  3. Jun 26, 2014 #3
    xroads La Porte City, IA

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    The pics are really blurry, that bottom one looks like hydnopora. If so, it is very aggressive to other corals.
     
  4. Jun 26, 2014 #4
    Zach Coralville, Iowa

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    (Pro tip) Right click the image and hit view image to scale it out correctly.
    The trumpet corals look fine in that photo, the separation looks to be simple maturing of the colony.

    The second image I have no idea what it is off hand. (xroads isn't Hydrapora/Hydraphora an skeleton laying branching coral?)

    Anytime you get brown jelly that is an indicator of necrosis. Not necessarily meaning the end of the coral, but not great news. You can take the coral out into a small bucket of tank water and swish it around to get it off of there or set it in the bucket and baste it off. Either way removing the goo tends to help heal the coral faster.

    Otherwise if tank params are stable and corals are not near each other I would give it a couple days and see.
     
  5. Jun 27, 2014 #5
    speshak West Des Moines

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    Well to play it safe I'm going to move the two further apart and just wait and see. Thanks for the help.
     

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