Help for fungia

[wright4941]

My plate coral has been doing great for the past four months or so that I have it- eating, getting bigger. Well it appears that overnight it went from being healthy to shrinking up, receeded and looking like its on its way out. The other night I changed out my filter sock and my protein skimmer started foaming up and overflowing. It freaked me out because I was worried that something got in it when I washed it or something. I usually throw them in the washer with a tiny bit of bleach and let them air dry, but Ive never had that problem before. Everything else is looking fine and I plan on doing a water change today.


Any ideas on what might have happened and what I can do to try and help it recover.

Thanks

 

[cjk76]

What are your other corals looking like?

Recently lots of people have had foam on their tanks... not sure what is causing it. As for the fungia, mine died because it got stung by an overaggresive duncan. Anything close? What CUC do you have?

 

[ATinPGH]

Mine does that occasionally as well. I don't know if a crab irritated it or what but one day it will be fluffy with its tentacles out and the next it looks like a sand dollar. It always comes back though. They are fairly resilient.

If for some reason it doesn't make it be sure not to remove it from your aquarium. After perishing, they often become baby fungia factories.

Hope it works out for you though.

Aaron

 

[rcharliesam]

My fungia just did the same exact thing. I know it was getting close to my duncans (again) but I am pretty sure it was on it's way out anyway. It looked great for the first 5 months though.

Even if yours recedes completely to the skeleton, keep it in your tank as they supposedly could come back later.

 

[maroun.c]

If for some reason it doesn't make it be sure not to remove it from your aquarium. After perishing, they often become baby fungia factories.

Aaron

Can you elaborate on this? I had a Fungia die and I just dumped the skeleton below the rack in the frag tank and noticed few days ago that there are multiple independant growths on it.Would those be multiple Fungias? should I divide them into separate pieces?

 

[gearhead364ss]

I had a small frag fall on a part of mine and the area that it fell on went white but the rest of it looks okay but it looks like its getting worse anything I can do to help it?

 

[cjk76]

Can you elaborate on this? I had a Fungia die and I just dumped the skeleton below the rack in the frag tank and noticed few days ago that there are multiple independant growths on it.Would those be multiple Fungias? should I divide them into separate pieces?

Yes they are fungias. Splitting them apart might be the best way to end up with "normal" looking fungias eventually. Just let them grow, which will take a long, long time.