Torch Coral Dying Help!

[fish flipper]

Came home from work and saw this. Is it dying? Can it be saved? what should I do??

 

[karimwassef]

Based on the other polyp's expansion, it looks like it suffered damage or injury? Did something attack it?

Frag it from the rest and put it somewhere safe?

 

[cloak]

You might want to do a search on Brown Jelly Disease/Syndrome.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2012/10/corals

 

[fish flipper]

I just put in some emerald crabs to help with bubble algae. Could they have done this?

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

Remove the coral and perform an iodine dip.

 

[rt67ghy]

Remove the coral and perform an iodine dip.

+1

Iodine dips can save the rest of the coral even if a couple of heads die.

 

[nuxx]

It's amazing how LPS can recover when conditions are improved... lost a ton in our display due some bad test kits... but a few months later everything is starting to regenerated after the parameters were fixed.

Now wall hammers are the exception... pretty much any damage can spell death

 

[Fitzreefer]

+2 on dipping it. Hard to tell from pic, but don't see what I recognize as brown jelly, but dip it to be sure. Also, how long have u had the coral? Short term could b shipping damage common w/ torch.
I've witnessed 1 of my emeralds scraping its claws across a goniopora frag. Thought it was doomed, but moved it and crabby seems to have left it alone. If you've had the coral for a while and it has been fine, I always look for the lowest common denominator...what changed recently...adding crabs, water parameters, water flow change, did something fall against it. Might come back after dip if there is no brown jelly.

 

[fish flipper]

I've had the coral for a while. I saw the crab eating it yesterday and has killed the whole now. Haven't seen them mess with anything else but don't really want to chance it. They will have to go!

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

I don't trust crabs, but it's still worth mentioning... Sometimes it can be difficult to tell if it's dying because the crab is eating it, or if the crab is eating it because it's dying.