Swanwillow
goby girl
alright, so I have had my orange fungia plate for 3+ months, give or take. Along with a green. Overnight one night about 2 weeks ago some of my lps went downhill. I blamed the angel... until today. (it is a cherub and is now in my sump)
My orange Fungia was one of the hardest hit, it did look like it had bites taken out of it-so maybe the angel started it. But I had to remove it from my tank today. Not because it died... but because its covered in either a fungus (what it looks like) or some sort of other growth. In-between all the ridges is a white substance. Maybe like a sponge, could be anything... There was some living tissue on it, but I removed it because, frankly, I don't want whatever the heck this is to spread.
Anyone have any places I could go look for this sort of thing? At the same time my orange one went I had 2 acans go 'bleh' on me, my green fungia turned brown (although ITS color is now coming back-it never lost flesh) and a blasto I got at a local swap in January is slowly losing polyps (although after breaking up the colony I think I've at least saved some of them, as it was working from one side to the other-the polyps were coming off one at a time)
I've done a reef dip (seachem) on everything affected except for the acans. One is slowly coming back, one still looks like hell, so I took it off its spot (it was glued to the rock work) and set it front and center in the sand bed.
Should I do another, longer reef dip? The first one was only for about 30 seconds... should I stretch it into minutes now that I know there's SOMETHING eating my hard corals? Should I dip every hard coral in my tank? (Yes, its feasible to do to save them!) even though its now only affecting 5 separate things.
UGH Advice is appreciated.
Sorry. The white is the 'stuff' the red is cyano that decided a dying coral was good. So ignore the cyano, it means very little (my tank has cyano issues still, I cut back on feeding and am upping water changes)
My orange Fungia was one of the hardest hit, it did look like it had bites taken out of it-so maybe the angel started it. But I had to remove it from my tank today. Not because it died... but because its covered in either a fungus (what it looks like) or some sort of other growth. In-between all the ridges is a white substance. Maybe like a sponge, could be anything... There was some living tissue on it, but I removed it because, frankly, I don't want whatever the heck this is to spread.
Anyone have any places I could go look for this sort of thing? At the same time my orange one went I had 2 acans go 'bleh' on me, my green fungia turned brown (although ITS color is now coming back-it never lost flesh) and a blasto I got at a local swap in January is slowly losing polyps (although after breaking up the colony I think I've at least saved some of them, as it was working from one side to the other-the polyps were coming off one at a time)
I've done a reef dip (seachem) on everything affected except for the acans. One is slowly coming back, one still looks like hell, so I took it off its spot (it was glued to the rock work) and set it front and center in the sand bed.
Should I do another, longer reef dip? The first one was only for about 30 seconds... should I stretch it into minutes now that I know there's SOMETHING eating my hard corals? Should I dip every hard coral in my tank? (Yes, its feasible to do to save them!) even though its now only affecting 5 separate things.
UGH Advice is appreciated.
Sorry. The white is the 'stuff' the red is cyano that decided a dying coral was good. So ignore the cyano, it means very little (my tank has cyano issues still, I cut back on feeding and am upping water changes)
