Candy Coral has a tumor?

[gsengel]

Have you folks seen this before? It looks like my candy corals have inflated tumors or that the heads are fusing. Is this normal or is something wrong? I'm not terribly worried for the coral at this point, but if it indicates some deficiency, I'd love to know about it.

Here are a few pictures:

Thanks!

 

[Sk8r]

It's trying to develop new heads, imho.

 

[raoul]

Mine get pretty plump during/after eating. Is it possible that a few heads caught something? A few of mine will occassionally catch flakes while the others don't.

 

[gsengel]

No, we feed once a day, and this happens before feeding (so it's been almost 24 hours since they caught something). It always happens at the same places as well, so Sk8r's suggestion might be right. On the other hand, on the light pink coral the heads usually divide without ballooning -- we've grown this since it was a tiny frag and seen it divide quite a bit. It's also a new occurence in the past couple of months.

 

[raoul]

I don't think you have anything to worry about. It probably is splitting, maybe it's doing it a little differently because there's more around it than before. Totally guessing...
Good luck and keep us posted

 

[ghostman]

I recall a thread where other LPS did this due to an alk/Ca defficiency. It was areas of tissue that were detached from the skeleton. How are your parameters? I will try a search to see if I can find the actual thread I was thinking of. HTH

 

[gsengel]

I will check parameters again tonight. We've been running 4 meq/L (11 dKH). Our Ca is around 400 ppm, Mg around 1200-1300. Those test results are a bit out of date though so I'll make sure nothing has changed dramatically. (Our two part regimen has left the tank pretty constant over the past 12 months, so we only test periodically now.)

Thanks for all the help!

 

[AndyB4784]

i'm pretty sure it's going to be dropping babies soon. it's called polyp extrusion i believe.

 

[gman0526]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9198074#post9198074 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by AndyB4784
i'm pretty sure it's going to be dropping babies soon. it's called polyp extrusion i believe.

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