pink toadstool help

[atvdave]

I got a pink toadstool about 2 weeks ago and it looks like it's dying.

I have 2 brown toadstools and other corals that are doing great.

sg-1.025
Ca-400+
nitrate-0
nitrate-10ppm
ph-8.2
temp 80 to 82
ammonia-0
alk-3.5ml

also if someone can point me to a web page that will give me info on the pink toadstool I'd appreciate it.

Thanks
Dave

 

[peecook]

can you describe what the coral looks like, why you think it looks like its dying? i have a pink toadstool. i will say that it is not always "happy". some days it just stays closed up, but it must be doing well, i have a little baby that is growing at its base now.

 

[atvdave]

pieces are just breaking off on there owen, kinda looks like it rotting.

 

[Hifiguy]

My brown toadstool is doing the same thing after being good in the tank for months.

My water parameters are all fine so i cant figure it out what is going on or what to do either. Let me know if you hear anything.

Shaun

 

[tinyreef]

siphon off as much of the rot and debris as you can. it's like an infection, you need to dress/clean the wound. in the wild, there's likely specialized cleaners or significant wave-action present to do these chores. but i our setups, most if not all of those dynamics are missing and we need to step in to fill that need.

i would be careful of contaminating the other toadies though. sometimes the rot or whatever is very specific to the species and other times it can jump species or even genus. not necessarily saying it's a bacteria, protozoan, fungus, or whatever. just seen similar situations get out of control and other times stay localized.

but even ones that stay within the species can have a deleterious effect overall if the coral fights back with chemical emissions or just plain ol' flesh decay.

clean up the coral and siphon all loose/excess crappie out. do a waterchange (can't hurt imo), run some chemical filtration (e.g. carbon, also can't hurt imo), and place the toadie in a slightly stronger current (not blasting, more of a gentle breeze).

also, if you have the chance, check the coral for any structural changes. this may signal parasite or full coralivore. clean or excise as appropriate. hth

 

[atvdave]

Does rotting or dying toadstools give off "chemical emissions" ?

If so I'll just pull the thing out of there, it's not worth the chance of killing my other coral's.

Dave

 

[tinyreef]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8263998#post8263998 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by atvdave
Does rotting or dying toadstools give off "chemical emissions" ?

it can give off chemicals either as distress signals, e.g. recently had a s. latum stuck in a crevice (i'm stuck!) and it farted the entire tank to retraction. they're just finally recovering, going on three weeks of being ticked off.

or they can just simply give off decay by-products chemicals unknowingly, e.g. hydrogen sulfide from rotten eggs.

but if the main flesh is still good color and not disintegrating, you could still try and let it recover imo. the color still looks ok, albeit the coloration of the pic is off from the actinics or blue-spectrums (or are they uri's?).

just clean off as much as you can (in a separate container would be best) and place back into the tank or a qt tank if you can set one up asap. you could treat it in the qt tank and observe it more closely.

if you dose or you are not afraid to dose, i can suggest something but otherwise i'd prefer to keep silent on that. also, if you're uncomfortable dosing (but you still want to try it), i definitely wouldn't do it in the main tank either. better to be too cautious than not cautious enough.