Elegance Coral out of shell?!

[Joao Gomes]

Hi everyone,

First of all, because this is one of my first post in this forum, congratilations for the amazing forum that this is!! I consider it my encycopedia of my Reef...:thumbsup:

I am posting because I am having a problem with my elegance coral, that I have for more than 1 year...It looks like it is getting out of the skeleton...but it looks good and healthy! :crazy1:

What do you think? Is it dying, it does not look like that...? I have never seen nothing like this described...:eek1:

You can find details and some recent videos about my Reef in my blog http://reefcentral.wordpress.com/

All the best
João Gomes

 

[408Reefer]

I once saw a brain corals doing the same thing and the guy at my LFS said it was due to a strontium deficiency in the water quality. Dont know if this is true.

 

[JuliusJames]

Aw great. I've heard in the past that when this happens, they're usually a gonner. Not tryin to bust ur bubble. Maybe someone with actual experience can chime in.

 

[rtb388]

Whats your magnesium at? They do this when they are leaving and looking for better conditions. Chances of survival are low but not impossible. Test Mag asap

look at this thread.....

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1670396&highlight=elegance+coral

 

[victor escobar]

I lost an elegance due to the same problem only because the change of lighting from hqi TO LEDS

 

[Dave VG]

Is the torch in the back ground stinging it? There sweepers can reach pretty far.

 

[JamesJR]

This is called polyp bail out. It is not common but a coral can recover from this. The biggest risk for a coral in polyp bail out is being sucked up by an intake or pump.

 

[Joao Gomes]

Hi

Thanks for the help!
Regarding the questions:

-Strontium deficiency...I doubt because I due daily water changes that make more a less 10% a week! And I am also doing balling dosing trace elements from faunamarin, which have strontium! :worried:

- rtb388 thanks for the link..very helpful! But once more I have the Mg levels ok, around 1400...they have been at 1500-1600 to try to eliminate some spots of bryopsis, using kent M more the Mg from the balling...maybe this was the problem...:hmm6:

- the lightning is stable from the beginning...8x54w ATI bulbs (aquablue, blue and Fiji purple)

- it is now close to the torch for a few days...because it is a spot with less water flow (far from the MP40W), but not toching it, I have that into account...torch euphylias are really agressive!

- Polyp bail out...it should be the case!!

I will keep feeding it 1/2 times a week and will see... I have my MP40W covered always due to the quadricolor nems that I have in the tank so I will not loose it this way!!

I will keep the thread updated! If you have any other idea...:reading:

All the best
João

 

[rtb388]

Wish I could be more help... but with it not being too much flow, good mg and good stronium levels.... not sure why else it would do it.

Good luck to u... I hope it goes back for u