KirbyBTF
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Hey all,
I recently got a little vase set up with cured live rock and established water. I let the vase do its thing for 2 weeks before adding anything. I then added 1 small brown button polyp and it was happy and open for 1 week straight so I proceeded to add the rest of my corals that I had been housing at a buddies house. Just for some background information I have an air bubbler for water movement, a small undergravel heater incase the tank gets too low, a PAR38 bulb approximately 6" from the top of the vase, and the vase itself is approximately 2 gallons of water volume.
Everything I got is open and looking good, including acropora, candy cane LPS, various Zoa/Paly, Duncan, Birdsnest, Digitata. However...my most expensive coral (Jason Fox Candy Apple Red Zoanthid) wasn't looking so hot when I picked it up from my friends house. Stalks were very extended in his tank, and the polyps were not fully open. Once the zoas hit my tank (After a 30 min temp acclimation) they seemed to be happier, stalks receeded a bit down to normal size, and the polyps began to open. His tank DID have .75 phosphate levels, but I don't think that should have been a problem.
The issue is, the JF CAR's seem to have a clear bubble growing over the polyp, not the entire polyp just the skirt/mouth area. There are 3 polyps total in the frag and each one has grown the clear bubble. I have seen this once before and was unable to save the colony. It even seemed when I dipped the Zoa in a tissue repair solution that it intensified the issue, causing the colony to completely melt within 24 hours of the dip. The closest thing I could find would be some sort of fungus but I really cant be 100% sure. Has anyone had the same issue before? If so, how have you resolved it?
When I get home today I can snap a picture for y'all. Thanks!
-Kirby
I recently got a little vase set up with cured live rock and established water. I let the vase do its thing for 2 weeks before adding anything. I then added 1 small brown button polyp and it was happy and open for 1 week straight so I proceeded to add the rest of my corals that I had been housing at a buddies house. Just for some background information I have an air bubbler for water movement, a small undergravel heater incase the tank gets too low, a PAR38 bulb approximately 6" from the top of the vase, and the vase itself is approximately 2 gallons of water volume.
Everything I got is open and looking good, including acropora, candy cane LPS, various Zoa/Paly, Duncan, Birdsnest, Digitata. However...my most expensive coral (Jason Fox Candy Apple Red Zoanthid) wasn't looking so hot when I picked it up from my friends house. Stalks were very extended in his tank, and the polyps were not fully open. Once the zoas hit my tank (After a 30 min temp acclimation) they seemed to be happier, stalks receeded a bit down to normal size, and the polyps began to open. His tank DID have .75 phosphate levels, but I don't think that should have been a problem.
The issue is, the JF CAR's seem to have a clear bubble growing over the polyp, not the entire polyp just the skirt/mouth area. There are 3 polyps total in the frag and each one has grown the clear bubble. I have seen this once before and was unable to save the colony. It even seemed when I dipped the Zoa in a tissue repair solution that it intensified the issue, causing the colony to completely melt within 24 hours of the dip. The closest thing I could find would be some sort of fungus but I really cant be 100% sure. Has anyone had the same issue before? If so, how have you resolved it?
When I get home today I can snap a picture for y'all. Thanks!
-Kirby
