Wellsophyllia problem? Please help!

[SweetCoralline1]

I have a rainbow wellsophyllia coral that has been inflating and deflating normally without any problems until this morning I noticed that one of the mouths was completely closed and it's side was all inflated and the other side's mouth was so far open that I think I can see it's skeleton and it's deflated. What could this be from and also is this a bad sign? What should I do? All of the tissue is there, not receding on the perimeter of the coral. Could something have damaged the mouth on the opposite side and if so, will it recover?

 

[SweetCoralline1]

Anyone? Bueler? Bueler???

Anyone? Bueler? Bueler???

No one has any ideas?

 

[VoiceInTheDeser]

Dude, you gotta give the internet more than 27 min to reply. If you have pictures, that would probably help.

 

[SweetCoralline1]

First off, I'm not a "dude"...second I tried uploading some photos on here and I couldn't get them posted??

 

[T.MONEY]

Is there a chance sand got blown onto that part? It might just be ****ed off.

Did you feed it recently? Perhaps one of your snails/crabs tore the food out of the corals mouth. Just two ideas without pics though.

 

[VoiceInTheDeser]

First off, I'm not a "dude"...second I tried uploading some photos on here and I couldn't get them posted??

You can upload to some other hosting site and link them here if you're having trouble with uploading them to the forum directly.

 

[SweetCoralline1]

Got a photo uploaded to my flickr act:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mycoralreef/8558636624/

The opening is the mouth but the dark part is the skeleton maybe?? I dunno. I did a Lugol's dip hoping for some tissue recovery..any ideas?

 

[SweetCoralline1]

I did feed it this morning and did notice that the damsels were trying to steal food from it...I know that they have a tendency to go after anything in "their territory" aka the whole right side of my tank.

 

[etannert]

+1 externally caused injury (I would tend to blame a hermit). Keep it shaded and watch your levels, it should come back fine but will take a few weeks. The Lugol's probably helped too!

 

[SweetCoralline1]

Well I woke up today after the Lugols dip and it looks drastically better! Thank the good man upstairs! Thanks guys for all your help!