Red specks on button polyps

[fredy free]

An update: temperature controller has been working for a few days and is holding the temp from 78 to 80f with fans, it controls heater and fans works great so far. Polyps that I dipped look to have stabilized they are very small and I will be surprised if they make it a few have opened a little so I will leave them in my quarantine tank until they disappear or recover any constructive comments or suggestions from anyone?

 

[A. Grandis]

Try target feed them very small quantities of quality dry coral food particles if they're able to open and receive the food. Do not overfeed! They'll receive tiny amounts of food only to fill their guts, remember! And try add some amino acids to the water, small amounts. Make sure you leave them alone in one spot and avoid having anything to mess around with them. Keep a good flow, constant water chemistry and maintenance, including the partial water changes. Keep the skimmer working.

Most important is to try to forget them and know they'll take some time to recover!

Dip them in Lugol's, as described in my second post in this thread, only if you see them melting, films on them or other signs of infection.

Grandis.

 

[fredy free]

A.G. Thanks I will try to find lugol's solution so far no luck found online only. I did spot feed with some liquid coral food that I had it grows algae but not so much corals will look for dry next time I am in Kansas City. For the most part like you said it is time to wait and see other then feeding them, they are in a 29 gallon tank lot of 50 50 lights, temp 79f, alone with clean up crew with a lot of sand , live rock good water flow should give them a good chance to pull out of it, will wait and see.

 

[A. Grandis]

Watch the "cleanup crew"!!! Make sure no hermits or other animals to bother the polyps!
No liquid food here. As you've noticed, most of them are great algae food as well!!
Please spend some time reading the links about target feeding and have fun.
Yes give'm as much time as they need to recover.
Hope one day to see you back here with the pictures after the recovering from the trouble!
Good luck!

Grandis.

 

[fredy free]

New Pic

New Pic

New pictures in quarantine tank, they may make it if no more bumps in the road before they get healthier.:thumbsup:

 

[fredy free]

Update

Update

They are recovering very slowly back in DT. I found rust flat worms in my DT a few weeks ago. I purchased a small Six-Line Wrasse and a large Hoeven's Wrasse to control. I don't see any on any of the other polyps they were on the green star polyps. Will brown flat worms attack zoos button polyps? I will attach a photo of brown flat worm on DT glass.:headwally:

 

[fredy free]

Flatworms - Polyps

Flatworms - Polyps

Anyone with the diet of or what Brown flatworms like to stay on, as I have only seen them on the green star polyps. Any good links with information on brown rust flatworms? The reason I ask is, could this have been part of the problem with the button polyp? I never saw brown flatworms on the button polyp but they had to be in the tank at the time I had problems? Will (did) Bayer kill them?

 

[fredy free]

Bayer and small Six-Line Wrasse and a large Hoeven's Wrasse worked. Bayer is good and I have used it numerous times over the last year, I have not used Lugol's but will purchase soon.

The snails were eating the zoas, Hoeven's Wrasse loved to eat them Bayer did not kill them.

 

[fredy free]

An update with summer coming I decided to do a diy chiller as fans may not be enough. I took an old bottle water cooler and put it into my basement put a coil of 3/8 tubing inside in the water ran a small pump with a tee and two valves one is a bypass so I can adjust the flow as needed. I am going to let my heater and fans do the temp stabilizing and the water cooler as make up if the fans cant keep up. For now the cooler is unplugged and pump is running.
Everything is great in the tank all pests are gone the Six-Line Wrasse and a large Hoeven's Wrasse have done their jobs.Chemical treatments, okay for dips but not the way to treat tanks for pests like brown flat worms or snails.