Scoly lifting from skeleton

[Griff500]

MP40QDs running at a maximum of 40% TSM and down to 20% lagoon. It developed a fold in the flesh and this catches any current and the flesh is lifted away from the skeleton. It's not in a high flow area. It's feeding well and the flesh remains puffy and full.

Any ideas?

 

[organism]

What are your parameters, especially alk and magnesium? I would do a Revive dip or something along those lines too.

 

[Griff500]

I'm nervous about a dip in case it makes it worse - sometimes doing nothing is the best thing to do, but...

Everything's a bit high but not really much different from the usual (slowly reducing to the right levels) and it's looked good through higher and lower parameters:

Kh: 8.77
Ca: 560
Mg: 1600
PO4: 0.08
NO3: No idea but at least 10.

Phosphate was out of control for ages but is now starting to steadily drop. Alkalinity had a spike up to 10 from it's usual (just below 8) but is slowly moving back down to where I want it. I lost some corals with the most recent spike and so that might explain the Ca and Mg rise as they were at target levels of about 400 and 1350.

Transitioned from Triton to a Calcium Reactor and Zeovit (being done slowly) and my other scoly struggled but receded in the usual way and is coming back. A RBTA lost all it's tentacles, hid away and then came out up the top and all tentacles are growing back and it's looking good. I'm hoping doing nothing will be the answer but I'm getting concerned that it might bail out. I've placed it next to another coral that is shielding it from flow and so the flesh isn't catching the flow and being pulled up but it still has that big fold that you can see in the first picture.

 

[Reef Frog]

I would skip the dip unless pests are confirmed. I haven't encountered accounts of scolymia parasites but I'm sure they exist. I would check during day & night with a magnifier for pests.

I've never seen this in my little collection or at a LFS. My instinct would be to move it to a sheltered location that gets some subdued light, and keep it fed but not heavily. You could also turn the pumps down and turn it so the detached flap is downstream of your MP40 current. Then just wait and see. I'm confident it's capable of re attaching to the skeletal plate.

It looks like a really nice piece, healthy and not in imminent danger IMO. I would not let any algae or dinoflagellates build up on the exposed skeleton & would clean it with peroxide if it happens. (I've had scoly tissue regrow over cleaned skeleton once)

Good luck with it and I'm hoping you update the thread as things change.