Id these white growths on Elegance please.

[adevice]

Hi, I've got an elegance that I'm attempting to treat for ECD. I've been dipping it daily, today (dip day 5) I noticed these white growths, I'm pretty sure they weren't there before. I tried to blast them off with a pipette, but they won't budge, also poked with tweezers but I didn't want to disturb them too much. They sort of spiral like worms twisted up on themselves. Anyone have a clue?

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[aleok]

I'm not sure what the white stuff is but as a whole it looks like a goner. My elegance died after just 2 months after purchase. Don't think many people have success with them.

 

[akitareefer]

Those are the guts.

 

[adevice]

Those are the guts.

Ew, that's not good. Thanks for your help!

 

[plasma327]

Make every attempt to get him to EAT!!!!! Anything you can give it it will consume EXCEPT FOR KRILL! Fresh caught shrimp, silver side, oyster egg mysis mix.. If you can get it to eat it slowly will come back. I have helped some local reefers in my area with elegance and if they eat they will survive. Be sure your water param's are good. Off the rock's in the sand and make every effort to feed ASAP!! Stop dipping, you are increaseing stress with every dip! He is starving and that will bring certain death!

 

[adevice]

Make every attempt to get him to EAT!!!!! Anything you can give it it will consume EXCEPT FOR KRILL! Fresh caught shrimp, silver side, oyster egg mysis mix.. If you can get it to eat it slowly will come back. I have helped some local reefers in my area with elegance and if they eat they will survive. Be sure your water param's are good. Off the rock's in the sand and make every effort to feed ASAP!! Stop dipping, you are increaseing stress with every dip! He is starving and that will bring certain death!

It's eating really well, about 3/4 of a silverside yesterday, going by your advice from the other thread. My water params are good, I had to replace my CO2 check valve on my reactor yesterday, so a little recalibration will have to occur there. I've got it on a PVC pipe in my refugium, low light low-moderate flow.

As far as stopping the dipping, that's a catch 22 for me, it has ECD, so it may die no matter what. My plan was to dip it for 5 more days and then powerfeed until it recovers or dies. When you say you've helped other recover them was it malnourished or ECD?

Thanks for your input.

 

[plasma327]

I recovered 3. Two of them were just malnourished and i nursed them back in a couple of months. The 3rd was from a close friend and i believe it did have ECD. Looked exactly as yours does now. I set it up in little 16 gallon bowfront i keep around for rescue corals as you never really know what they may have so i never put them in my display for nursing. I used aragonite and fuge mud mix for bedding. I had some spare rock and built a cave like structure and placed it back inside the cave. I used an emperor hang on back filter with carbon pade on side and chemipure pouch on the other and just drained water from my display to fill the tank with. It took about 6 months but it did recover with heavey feeding. Returned it to my buddy and a week later his rock work fell ontop of it and killed it. I was so ****ed... At any rate i did noting really special.. Don't know if i was blind a$$ lucky or it was its will to survive. There is just so little known about ECD. I feel the Elegance coral is the most beautiful coral IMO. I stressed over that coral so, it drove my wife crazy but she coped. I did not speak to my buddy for months after his debacle. He was one of those that should have never had a reef to begin with. Back to topic. My instruction for nursing the elegance come from my LFS owner. He is like PaulB on here and has been keeping fish and coral since 1592 BC LOL.. I have seen him nurse fish and coral you just new was gonners. At any rate good luck and i hope he pulls through. If i can help in any way let me know. Don't know how far or your location but i can lend you the tank, light, filter, etc.. I spoke of in the post to help you out. I have an enormous soft spot for the creatures and will go and help to great lengths to assist. Upsets me when they don't make it, :headwallblue:

 

[adevice]

Wow, thanks for offering the QT as a loaner! I'm pretty sure it will be good where it's at, I've got space to work with for it's needs and it's in a good spot to make sure it gets fed. The guts were retracted yesterday when I got home, so I feel better about that. I noticed that there is still some algae left, and some really stubby tentacles, so that is promising. I'm sorry to hear about the one you spent so much time on, such a needless death.

Thanks!