Favites shrinking to the point of dying!!!

[Fish Ed]

Help!! I just got a new favites and when I was acclimating it, I found snail/nudi eggs underneath the coral. Therefore I went through a procedure, dipped it in CoralRx then I superglued the entire bottom part of the coral and let me tell you, this piece was large, it's about the size of a hand. It took a while to superglue it and it was upside down flesh against the surface when I was doing it. Then I put it in a quarantine tank, for a couple of hours just to see what else I miss. Then off it goes into the tank. Overnight, it shrunk and I can see the sharp skeleton penetrating out.
It was kept in medium flow and under medium lighting.

From the picture it "looks" okay but if you take a closer look you can its skeleton

 

[Fish Ed]

Help anyone??

 

[ozyreefa]

At this point I would continue to monitor it without interfering with it at all, most likely just going through shock due to transport as well as the handling during supergluing, may take a few days to really fill out again. However, if you notice the tissue continuing to recede after a few more days then further action maybe needed to stop it rom spreading to the rest of the colony. Does it give a feeding response if fed foods like "reef roids" during nightime?

 

[Fish Ed]

Glad you mentioned that, I just fed reefroids not too long ago. I did see very slight mouth movements on some polyps, kinda like it's puckering. Oh and it was sliming alot but my tang seem to cleaned up most of it.

Hmm... could my bristletooth tang be a culprit?

 

[ozyreefa]

The slime you are seeing during feeding is more than likely it's digestive mucus, a lot of LPS will expel a little during feeding to help capture the food and draw it in. IMO, if adequate lighting is provided and the coral feeds, then there is no reason it shouldn't recover (parasites aside of course). The fact that it gives a response to feeding shows it is not exhausted completely at the very least. Good signs, good luck.

 

[Fish Ed]

Oh I meant to say, it was sliming alot earlier even before feeding.
And I also added if the tang could cause more harm when its constantly picking at it?

 

[ozyreefa]

The tang picking at it would definitely be cause for concern, as it typically won't extend it's polyps when it's getting bothered. Is the tang picking at the flesh or at algae around the edges?

 

[Fish Ed]

Oh man. It's looking worse. Most of the green part has been gone and is now skeleton. Mouths are still intact though. I decided to dip it in coralRx and moved it higher to a spot which I know my tang don't often hang out. I'll see how it turns out.

 

[Megistos]

Consider putting superglue ahead of the tissue recession; might help stop it before everything dies.

 

[Fish Ed]

It's not receding on the sides. The whole thing is literally shrunken until the bones penetrate the flesh.

The tang picking at it would definitely be cause for concern, as it typically won't extend it's polyps when it's getting bothered. Is the tang picking at the flesh or at algae around the edges?

It was picking at the flesh.

 

[Fish Ed]

Here's how it looks like

 

[rogersb]

Earlier you said you dipped it. Did you use tank water and coralrx or freshwater and coralrx?

 

[Fish Ed]

Tank water and coral rx

 

[Fish Ed]

It's dead