Scolymia Not Looking Good. Help.

[jmadden]

I've had this Bleeding Apple scoly for about six weeks or so. Didn't look that great in the LFS. Took it home and fed it small pieces of silverside a few times a week. It got fat and happy.
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I later moved it down onto the sand bed after removing a melanarus wrasse that just loved to dump sand everywhere. It stayed fat and happy for the past month.
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Now over the last week or so it had started looking not so good. It hasn't been feeding as aggressively and it having a hard time moving food to its mouth.

Picture from today.
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Nothing in my system has changed. All other corals are doing fine including the two other scolys right next to it. What is going on?

 

[seapug]

Not sure but I've had the same thing happen to me a few times in the past. I've had a couple recover from it but most of the time there doesn't seem to be any stopping it once it starts. I can only guess some sort of bacterial infection from injury is the cause. I call it Yourfavoriteandmostexpensivecoralsarethefirsttodiefornoreason-itis.

 

[jmadden]

Isn't that the truth. Luckily the green one was the least expensive haha. Anything I can do to give it a better shot at recovery?

 

[seapug]

Someone else might have a cure, but I'd recommend just keep it shaded, out of strong currents and avoid touching it or messing with it. And cross your fingers.

 

[MechEng99]

In the top shot it looks like you have a frogspawn or something kinda near it. Any chance it sent out a sweeper tentacle one night and got the scoly? It looks healthy (as do your other scoly's) except that one spot...which looks like a sting.

I would dip it in a coral dip which may help if there's some type of infection.

 

[coralobsessions]

dip it and clean off the dead tissue.