I have had this toadstool leather for about two years now and about a month ago it started to sluff on one side. I went ahead and cleaned off the dead area but it looks as if it is being eaten or just slowly dying. The dead are has now reached to the stalk. The rest of it still comes out normally. Is their anything that might be eating it. Is thier somthing I can do to get it to stop sloughing.
Toadstool leather and its to be getting eaten
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tinyreef
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if it's something eating it you have to find the culprit and remove it. it might be a worm or bug/pod of some sort living close by or even inside the coral.
if it's slowly degrading/rotting then you need to excise the infected or rotting flesh down to the healthy flesh, i.e. gangrene treatment. you're better off removing some healthy flesh even after cutting all the infected flesh just to be sure.
even if it's the latter, eaten/bitten flesh may need to be cleaned and treated, just like a human wound needs dressing and antiseptic. i like to use iodine (e.g. lugol's dosing) as the antiseptic and some flow to keep the wound "aerated".
sarcos tend to have the most "fat reserves" of corals so they can survive prolonged illness or attacks like this so you have that going for you. but it usually needs to be addressed by the hobbyist rather than letting it run its course (either way, coralivore or illness).
post a pic and maybe we can determine which it is from the appearance. hth
if it's slowly degrading/rotting then you need to excise the infected or rotting flesh down to the healthy flesh, i.e. gangrene treatment. you're better off removing some healthy flesh even after cutting all the infected flesh just to be sure.
even if it's the latter, eaten/bitten flesh may need to be cleaned and treated, just like a human wound needs dressing and antiseptic. i like to use iodine (e.g. lugol's dosing) as the antiseptic and some flow to keep the wound "aerated".
sarcos tend to have the most "fat reserves" of corals so they can survive prolonged illness or attacks like this so you have that going for you. but it usually needs to be addressed by the hobbyist rather than letting it run its course (either way, coralivore or illness).
post a pic and maybe we can determine which it is from the appearance. hth
Thanks for the info. I went ahead and removed as much of the dead material as possible and it looks to be okay for now. i also moved the coral to another part of the aquarium just in case a bug was living in the rocks below it and coming out at night. I will try to post a picture on here as soon as possible. Thanks again for the help.
