Hermit crab or bristle worm eat pink style?

[Crush Coral]

I have a fragment of pink style that was doing great till today i notice the bottom 1/3 to be stripped clean. the rest of it is untouched. those are the only two things i can think of to bother it. No disable bugs or worms. i Will dip it in layer tomorrow just in case. Any thoughts?

 

[Crush Coral]

I should never post off my phone. Changes words on me. That was a frag of Pink Stylophora. Today a little more tissue is missing moving up from the bottom. I am confused due to the fact that the missing tissue is moving up from the bottom and not all around the frag. Any ideas?

 

[Crush Coral]

Any help? I dipped in Bayer Insect killer today and will see if the receeding stops or not.

 

[triggreef]

Doesn't sound like pest to me. Sounds like its just stn from the base. I would frag the remainder a 1/2" from where the stn is. Only way to stop stn ime. Hope that helps.

 

[Crush Coral]

what is stn?

 

[Dapg8gt]

I'd say it's neither of those. Probably like mentioned above STN.. Sudden tissue necrosis / RTN rapid tissue necrosis. Is there any other sps in the tank? It's a fairly common thing that has happened at one time or another to most who keep sps..

It's a signal that the coral is not happy in the environment or is stressed, but in reality it could be a lot of things light, flow, nutrients, alk or pretty much anything. It's a mystery on why it happens sometimes but ime it's mostly due to alk swings or overall instability. Some are way more sensitive then others and stylo's are pretty hardy usually so either it was in bad shape when you got it or there is something going on in the tank.

You should read up on the stickies above in this forum for sps care in general if your new to them. It will get you up to speed on what the acronym's are and how to best care for them and provide what it needs to save you money and headaches.

Good luck with it and I(mirroring above) would definitely frag it now if you want to save it.

 

[sahin]

I'd say it's neither of those. Probably like mentioned above STN.. Sudden tissue necrosis / RTN rapid tissue necrosis. Is there any other sps in the tank? It's a fairly common thing that has happened at one time or another to most who keep sps..

It's a signal that the coral is not happy in the environment or is stressed, but in reality it could be a lot of things light, flow, nutrients, alk or pretty much anything. It's a mystery on why it happens sometimes but ime it's mostly due to alk swings or overall instability. Some are way more sensitive then others and stylo's are pretty hardy usually so either it was in bad shape when you got it or there is something going on in the tank.

You should read up on the stickies above in this forum for sps care in general if your new to them. It will get you up to speed on what the acronym's are and how to best care for them and provide what it needs to save you money and headaches.

Good luck with it and I(mirroring above) would definitely frag it now if you want to save it.

+1 on above. Neither hermits or bristle worms would go after healthy/living SPS tissue.