Whats this? See Pic

[srkr1432]

Looks likw a white blannket..huh? I don't have clue any help appreciated...Shane

 

[yellowwatchmen]

mabey some kind of sponge

 

[srkr1432]

Should I scrape it off? Its covering my brwon corals.

 

[craab]

looks like some kind of fungus. I would scrape it off.

 

[srkr1432]

231

 

[luv951]

what does 231 mean?

 

[scaryperson27]

Thats how many cubic inches are in a gallon. Why he posted that is beyond me. Aquarium Tourette syndrome maybe? happens to the best of us.

It appears to be some type of fungus or sponge. next time you do a water change, use the old water to take it off in. I would take whatever it is off due to the fact that it's suffocating your coral to death.

 

[Wrench]

Not sure what it is but I had that problem a couple months ago. Some said it was fungus and others said it was a parasite. It will spread to adjacent colonies so isolate it. Quickly! Manually remove as much of it as you can then use a dip. I used a coral dip made by seachem which is just iodine. Pretty much treat is as a freshwater dip but add a cap full of the solution. I had to do it a few times over the course of a week to get it all out.

 

[OnoIgotICH]

I would also isolate that, whatever it is its probaly suffocating those polyps and from the looks of it, it could spread

 

[SlowCobra]

oops wrong thread. I have the same issue going on.

 

[srkr1432]

dfh

 

[twomenandatank]

i have this same coral. it does this from time to time. then it just opens back up. it seems to me that it goes bigger. i guess it's like a leather when it mucus ups to grow. IMO

 

[MarkusII]

Hello,

this is the brown caribic zoanthus...
If you touch the other open polyps they will close and look the same as in the middle. Nothing to worry about....

regards

Markus

 

[Frick-n-Frags]

if it is fungus/bacteria/disease, it may siphon off(won't spread it around that way)

usually this means circulation/nasty water issues

if that is just closed down seamat, maybe it is just closed down seamat

and since we aren't even close to seeing everything the ocean has cooking, it could be something else entirely

 

[MarkusII]

Hello,

believe me its only retracted polyps of the Palythoa caribaeorum

regards

Markus

 

[crunk]

hmmm maybe we should ask markus, im sure he would know......lol

 

[crunk]

haha im still laughing. im too funny

 

[Wrench]

I had the same exact thing on my RDE's and safecrakers. It would peel off like a skin. I also lost two colonies to it so I don't believe that it's just closed up polyps. I've never seen a colony of polyps close up and look like than.

 

[MarkusII]

Hello Tony and crunk,

I keep this palythoa now for some years and if you touch her she closes the polyps and looks like this. If you look on the right side of the first picture of the link I gave you can see four polyps closing. As the single polyps are very close together and have one "common" base (somewhat different tho other palythoa) they get this somewhat white (pale) looking skin when closing.
At the next occasion I will make a picture of them when closed and post it...

(But both of you with your long experience in saltwater may know more than I..... :rolleye1: )

regards

Markus

 

[Wrench]

I'm not trying to say I know more than you in any way. I'm just telling the original poster that I had this problem and it decimated two of my colonies.