Help with ID'ing this goop!

[Mare100]

I'm wondering of someone can try to help me ID this "stuff". My beautiful Nepthea......who has been doing incredibly well in our 120....all of a sudden shriveled up and slumped over. It's been like this for 2 days now and I couldn't figure out what's up. It's "offspring" are all doing well and all other corals in the tank are doing well.

First thing I thought to try was to move it to a different spot in the tank (we just put a Frogspawn about 4 inches from it and thought maybe there was a problem). When my husband picked it up to move it....we found this slimy, pink "stuff" all over the rock and near where it's base is attached to the rock. It's not a great picture....but I think you will see the stuff I'm talking about....

My husband said it almost looks like there is something "oozing" out of the base of the coral? I think it looks like some kind of "spongy" algae....but pink?

Thanks for any help.

M

 

[rkizer06140]

maybe a pink sponge irritating it?

 

[Mare100]

Maybe.....do sponges feel "slimy"? I don't know much about sponges....I'll go do some checking....

M

 

[dustybuddy]

maybe something from inside the rock is eating at it. or it mite be some pink red algae. maybe?? idunno.

 

[Mare100]

We had an outbreak of the red slime algae in our other tank (which we got rid of, thank goodness)...and this doesn't look anything like that. Now that you mentioned "sponge"...it does look like a sponge...very porous. The question is...what do I do about it? I don't want it to kill the coral or anything.

M

 

[magdelan]

That looks like a shriveled up Kenya tree and not a Nepthia.

 

[Dubbin1]

It is completely normal for leathers to shrivel up like that. It will be better then new in a few days.

 

[Mare100]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10183303#post10183303 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by magdelan
That looks like a shriveled up Kenya tree and not a Nepthia.

Ya know....I thought it was a Kenya Tree also when we first got it....but I was told by somene else it was a Nepthea? I have this big book on corals...but I can't seem to find a picture that looks just like it in there....and if you don't know the scientific name...you can't look it up in the index. OK...now I've GOT to go on a mission to find out exactly what this guy is. It "reproduced" and we've got a bunch of little ones all over the tank now.

Does anybody know if I can just "scrape" that sponge off?

M

 

[Dubbin1]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10184100#post10184100 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mare100
It "reproduced" and we've got a bunch of little ones all over the tank now.

Does anybody know if I can just "scrape" that sponge off?

That would be Kenya tree and I wouldn't even worry about the sponge.

 

[teena]

my kenya tree does the same thing, it always comes back,