vessxpress1
Premium Member
I have experienced the same problem and have lost nice frags, even after TMPCC dips. I have had two acan lord and two echinata frags dissolve away. The echinatas had been in the tank for 6 months and all of a sudden went down hill. One of the lord frags was 180 bucks. I looked at some of the tissue under a microscope and there were definately some type of tiny creatures that could not be seen by the naked eye, moving around in the dead tissue and eating it. I'm not the only one to have seen these things. Were they scavengers? Or were they killing it? I have no idea, but I'm sure they weren't helping it.
The best thing you can possibly do is try to keep your water as clean as possible and try not to damage the tissue at all, in order to prevent initial infections. Newly cut frags are at high risk IMO.
Besides this, I also had peppermint shrimp. I got rid of them and I'll never buy another one. They are extremely hard on coral and can be destructive if they sense food at all. I target fed one of my nices acans with shrimp one evening and in the morning, the whole center was torn out and it was white. Only on the polyp I fed. I'm positive the peppermint shrimp tore it up to get to the piece of shrimp. It's since grown back like new.
I also have a small RBTA that I fed. It ate the food. Food was gone. I came by later and found a peppermint shrimp with it's claws down the RBTA's throat ripping the food back out!! That was the final straw. They were even strong enough to rip food away from my serpent stars, right out of their mouths.
And the peppermint's can't be appeased either. You can give them a piece of food initially and it doesn't matter. If they find or sense more food, they will steal it. Which is why I won't keep them anymore.
Since getting rid of them, I haven't had any sudden polyp damage.
The best thing you can possibly do is try to keep your water as clean as possible and try not to damage the tissue at all, in order to prevent initial infections. Newly cut frags are at high risk IMO.
Besides this, I also had peppermint shrimp. I got rid of them and I'll never buy another one. They are extremely hard on coral and can be destructive if they sense food at all. I target fed one of my nices acans with shrimp one evening and in the morning, the whole center was torn out and it was white. Only on the polyp I fed. I'm positive the peppermint shrimp tore it up to get to the piece of shrimp. It's since grown back like new.
I also have a small RBTA that I fed. It ate the food. Food was gone. I came by later and found a peppermint shrimp with it's claws down the RBTA's throat ripping the food back out!! That was the final straw. They were even strong enough to rip food away from my serpent stars, right out of their mouths.
And the peppermint's can't be appeased either. You can give them a piece of food initially and it doesn't matter. If they find or sense more food, they will steal it. Which is why I won't keep them anymore.
Since getting rid of them, I haven't had any sudden polyp damage.
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