Coral balding?

[rogergolf66]

I have a try color acro that was going great growing like crazy with awesome color then all of a sudden 3 or so days ago I noticed polyps not opening up and now there is not even holes for polyps to come out of? Try to get a pic but no luck. Any ideas what this could be?all other almost 90 sps doing fine. I have had this piece for about 6 months.

What can I do it anything?


Roger

 

[karsseboom]

Check for Aefw.

 

[rogergolf66]

That was the first thing I did can't find any. I used Turkey baster and don't see any

 

[rogergolf66]

Ok so update I order a watch makers 20x magnifier and looked over the entire coral and I see no bugs at all on this or even near it on the rock. Any other ideas? It got a little worse. Hopping it makes it but I don't think it will.its the only coral in the tank of about 90 corals that looks bad in anyway.

Any ideas on how to save this?

 

[COMEKS5150]

start fragging whats salvageable! if any of course

 

[rogergolf66]

ok got some pictures dose anyone see anything on it? I don't

 

[rogergolf66]

the 2nd pic down from the first post is what it looked like just a couple weeks before and I have been grwoing this peice from a 1/2 frag so it was going great.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?p=20779026#post20779026

 

[Reef Bass]

Your polyps are all there just retracted. I don't see any obvious pests looking at the pics on my phone. Could a tank inhabitant be nipping at it? Got any angels or butterflies?

 

[rogergolf66]

no angels or butterflies. nothing I can think of would be doing this

 

[franklypre]

Is this what the entire coral looks like or just a portion. If I had to guess the part of it in the pic looks shaded, if all other acros are fine I would look at the lighting.

 

[rogergolf66]

Is this what the entire coral looks like or just a portion. If I had to guess the part of it in the pic looks shaded, if all other acros are fine I would look at the lighting.

U r correct the area that it started in is shaded a bit by it self a bit but the side that is getting good light closer to the balding side is also like this.

 

[rogergolf66]

Is this what the entire coral looks like or just a portion. If I had to guess the part of it in the pic looks shaded, if all other acros are fine I would look at the lighting.

U r correct the area that it started in is shaded a bit by it self a bit but the side that is getting good light closer to the balding side is also like this.

 

[rogergolf66]

Coral is getting better. Has all its polyps again but no color yet. Must have been the carbon.

 

[rogergolf66]

Color is coming back and starting growing again!!!!

Roger

 

[david_lee]

Did you ever figure out what was the cause?

 

[rogergolf66]

Did you ever figure out what was the cause?

Nice aviator looks like mine in a mirror lol. I can only guess it was the carbon stripping the water to clean to fast. Even though I started with a super low dose.

Roger

 

[rogergolf66]

100% recovery !!!!