Urgent Lobophyllia HELP!!

[ButlerPA]

Hi guys,

I am in desperate need of some help. About 1 month ago I rescued the attached Lobo from my father's large reef tank. At that time, it was thought that a nearby coral was stinging the red lobo causing tissue death. He asked that I take it and see if I could revive it. My 40 gallon rimless tank was flourishing and my corals were doing very well. Initially, I wasn't sure where to place it, so I placed it in a low flow area on some live rock (it is in the same place today). It did great until a couple of days ago when I noticed more of the soft tissue beginning to die. Tonight, I noticed a small blue legged crab eating away at the recently dying tissue. Otherwise, the coral eats great. I feed it mysis about once a week.

I have attached two pictures. One is a photo of the entire tank, so you can see where the coral is placed, and the other is an up close picture clearly showing where the tissue is dying back.

What should I do? I don't have another tank set up right now, but do have a smaller tank that I can get up and running but will need to cycle (In case someone thinks isolating the coral by itself would be a possibility).

Thanks in advance.

John

 

[AGYDAL]

Hermit crabs can be your friend in helping remove dead tissue before it can progress into a more serious bacterial infection.

Did you try dipping the coral in any sort of coral dip?

what are your parameters?

You might want to put the lobo on the sand bed, if your hermit crabs are cleaning the tissue on it, I'd be worried that a crab could possibly knock it off your rock work, causing an already stressed coral more stress.

 

[ButlerPA]

Thanks for your response. I'll place it in the sand bed and check my parameters and re-post. It is pretty clear from the research that the coral will be happier on the sand bed. I usually use "revive" for my dips. It's late now, but tomorrow I'll get the water parameters posted and dip the coral. I'm also due for a 20% water change. Thanks again for responding.

John

 

[biecacka]

What sort of light and flow for these things?
Corey