HELP! Donut Coral is sick!

[ptan]

Hi guys! just want to ask about your opinion whats happening on my donut coral... its been with me for a year already... but suddenly its mouth is not closing... and it doesnt respond to any food that im offering... i hope someone can help me understand whats happening... and also a remedy i hope... thank you again...

 

[540iz4]

Look like the mouth is torn, what kind of fish do you have in your tank?

 

[Batreef]

what are your water peramiters. has anything changed in your tank since this started happening. are your other corals doing well. more info will help.

 

[ptan]

Thank you for the fast answers... i do have a burgessi butterfly fish in the tank... but the fish was in there for only 1 week. the problem with the coral started 1 month ago... other corals seems perfectly fine... all other lps and sps are doing great... the only difference is my bio pellets is 2/3 consumed already. will try to test my water parameters later...

 

[ptan]

up here...

 

[Jarred1]

Do you have any shrimp? Were you spot feeding the coral?


Sent using Tapatalk

 

[ptan]

yeah i have 4 cleaner shrimp and 1 blood shrimp.
i dont spot feed any of my lps corals. i usually just ditch a cube of my diy food (shredded shrimps, salmon, selcon, squid, mussels, clams, nori, and cyclopeeze). Can i still save the coral?

 

[Cubbies]

yeah i have 4 cleaner shrimp and 1 blood shrimp.
i dont spot feed any of my lps corals. i usually just ditch a cube of my diy food (shredded shrimps, salmon, selcon, squid, mussels, clams, nori, and cyclopeeze). Can i still save the coral?

That might be your problem. Some LPS including yours need to be spot fed since they are a bit bigger. They can't just rely on whatever passes by them. I think it's starting to receed if you ask me. Try soaking some food in Restor and spot feed it. Cover it up so nobody picks at while feeding.

 

[ptan]

will do that... thanks for that tip cubbies... just want to ask what kind of food should i feed it?

 

[Jarred1]

Meaty food like mysis shrimp or regular chopped up shrimp.

 

[Cubbies]

Meaty food like mysis shrimp or regular chopped up shrimp.

+1 sounds like ur mix will do just fine. Try going with the mysis for now since you probablly don't want to stuff it with a chunck of meat if it's not feeling too good.