Looking for info on strange acro issue (close pics included)
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Carman34L
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very interesting....
Heres a couple of pics from a friends tank of a Echino Mamioformis dropping a daughter clone. looks kinda weird as well.
And if I am not mistaken I took these pics and it is the first documented case of this happening to this species in captivity. Pretty cool stuff
Heres a couple of pics from a friends tank of a Echino Mamioformis dropping a daughter clone. looks kinda weird as well.
And if I am not mistaken I took these pics and it is the first documented case of this happening to this species in captivity. Pretty cool stuff
scottywags
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mntl- just in the last 3 days have noticed the same thing on 2 of my corals, both are extremly rapid growers. I was moving some stuff in the tank today and noticed the tips were soft and saw that same "bubble" type syndrom. I'm so glad for your post cause I was starting to get worried.
Travis
10 and over club
I have something extremely similar going on with one of my acros. It is not at the axial tip though. This acro has formed a blister/bubble growth where 2 branches once crossed paths and touched. I thought it may be some type of infection but does not seem to bother the coral. The growth has been going on for several months now. I will snap a pic tonight when I get home.
mntl
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New update!! this morning I went and looked at it after the lights turned on and the sacs have ruptured and are expelling what looks like dinoflagellets (sp?) You can see in the pic the sacs are much smaller, the upper branch you can see portions of wht looks to be skeleton, and on the lower branch you can actually see it expelling the brown crud.
the rest of the coral looks fine except for these few branches. The polyps on these branches are still acting normally, I am not going to frag the brances, I want to see what happens with it. This coral as a whole has noticable growth daily, It is by far the fastest growing acro I have had, I have no doubt the tips will recover quickly after it gets beyond this.
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I will get better pictures later after they stop expelling, sorry for the blurry pics, I was in a hurry and I wanted to catch it in the act
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-John-
the rest of the coral looks fine except for these few branches. The polyps on these branches are still acting normally, I am not going to frag the brances, I want to see what happens with it. This coral as a whole has noticable growth daily, It is by far the fastest growing acro I have had, I have no doubt the tips will recover quickly after it gets beyond this.
I will get better pictures later after they stop expelling, sorry for the blurry pics, I was in a hurry and I wanted to catch it in the act
.-John-
mntl
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It is a Fuji F11. This is just on normal macro mode, ISO 80 and auto-adjust. Things look much better if you actually take the time to manually adjust the camera (wite-balance etc). ISO goes up to 1600 on this camera and it is loaded with options (and it is tiny). Currently I think this is still a grey market camera in the US, it is a JDM model, we get up to F10 (this may have changed). There is a guy who goes by timetoenvy on ebay, he has a large online shop that specializes in grey/imported electronics. They normally do not have a US warranty (must be serviced in Japan by Fuji) but he provides a after-market 3year warrenty (it is better than the factory one and it is a US warrenty), he sells thousands of cameras and is awsome to deal with, they are all brand-new in box. Basically when you get the camera just change the language setting from Japanese to English (it has settings in most languages) and it is just like any other Fine-pix but with more options and better adjustment. If you want more info google it or mssg me.
-John-
-John-
mntl
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Crazy pic travis!!!
Whats strange is up until seeing it in my tank I have not seen this, with all of your responses it seems this is fairly common?
Well, sinse this mornings ruptures the cuts that the brown crud oozed out of have already healy/sealed up. The portion that looked like exposed skeleton that appeared in the cut actually has tissue on it so a layer of tissue was growing under the blister (or the blister was in the middle of the layer of tissue)? It is night time now and polyps in the effected areas are out in full force (if you think this thing looks hairy in the picture you should see it at night!). I will try to snap some pics in the morning to show how much they have healed.
-John-
Whats strange is up until seeing it in my tank I have not seen this, with all of your responses it seems this is fairly common?
Well, sinse this mornings ruptures the cuts that the brown crud oozed out of have already healy/sealed up. The portion that looked like exposed skeleton that appeared in the cut actually has tissue on it so a layer of tissue was growing under the blister (or the blister was in the middle of the layer of tissue)? It is night time now and polyps in the effected areas are out in full force (if you think this thing looks hairy in the picture you should see it at night!). I will try to snap some pics in the morning to show how much they have healed.
-John-
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