Markarian421
Premium Member
Questions:
(1) My main question is about our open brain coral, which in the last few days seems to be separating from its skeleton on one end. Here's a not very good picture (sorry it's the best I could do this am):
Along the upper right side you can see its skeleton. Is this normal? Is this just how they multiply? The coral itself seems very healthy although my wife says it hasn't been eating normally the last few days.
(2) I'll include my second question just on the chance that it might have something to do with the first one, but I doubt it. We moved our ~3 year old tank in September (because we moved), and since then _all_ of our sps corals slowly died. We can't figure it out, our water tests have shown great water quality, calcium is higher than it's been in a while now that almost nothing is using it any more. The corals did not bleach and then die, it almost looked like something was slowly stripping the flesh away, generally starting in the darker areas/underside, but we never saw anything on the corals. Iodine dips didn't help. Some of the corals went pretty quickly, others more slowly -- now 5 months later I think they are pretty much all gone. I'd like to figure out why this happened . . . sps used to grow like crazy in our tank.
The soft corals all seemed fine although the xenia, which used to overgrow the tank within 2 months, is only now (after 5 months) getting to the point where I think I might need to go in and thin it out. Ricordia and star polyps have been growing and spreading like mad, and our toadstool leather is just about outgrowing our tank. And other than the thing mentioned above the brain coral has done great.
We've asked at a couple LFSs (one of which we used to regularly supply with frags before our move) and the folks there seem as puzzled as we are.
Ideas?
(1) My main question is about our open brain coral, which in the last few days seems to be separating from its skeleton on one end. Here's a not very good picture (sorry it's the best I could do this am):
Along the upper right side you can see its skeleton. Is this normal? Is this just how they multiply? The coral itself seems very healthy although my wife says it hasn't been eating normally the last few days.
(2) I'll include my second question just on the chance that it might have something to do with the first one, but I doubt it. We moved our ~3 year old tank in September (because we moved), and since then _all_ of our sps corals slowly died. We can't figure it out, our water tests have shown great water quality, calcium is higher than it's been in a while now that almost nothing is using it any more. The corals did not bleach and then die, it almost looked like something was slowly stripping the flesh away, generally starting in the darker areas/underside, but we never saw anything on the corals. Iodine dips didn't help. Some of the corals went pretty quickly, others more slowly -- now 5 months later I think they are pretty much all gone. I'd like to figure out why this happened . . . sps used to grow like crazy in our tank.
The soft corals all seemed fine although the xenia, which used to overgrow the tank within 2 months, is only now (after 5 months) getting to the point where I think I might need to go in and thin it out. Ricordia and star polyps have been growing and spreading like mad, and our toadstool leather is just about outgrowing our tank. And other than the thing mentioned above the brain coral has done great.
We've asked at a couple LFSs (one of which we used to regularly supply with frags before our move) and the folks there seem as puzzled as we are.
Ideas?
