Botton scolly

[reefthereefer]

I just recently got a botton scoly. I acclimated it to my tank and took all proper steps. I woke up today to find what seems to be it shedding or peeling a fine coding off of it. Is this normal? It's attached to the skeleton. One picture is the scoly which in bottom right you can see it peeling. The other two picture are what it seemed to shed.

 

[VintageReefer]

It is not normal. It is dying. The flesh of the coral is bailing from the skeleton. This will be completely gone very fast

What are your conditions ?
Temperature
Salinity
Alkalinity
Nitrate
Phosphate
Calcium
Lighting
Flow in this area
Age of tank

 

[reefthereefer]

It is not normal. It is dying. The flesh of the coral is bailing from the skeleton. This will be completely gone very fast

What are your conditions ?
Temperature
Salinity
Alkalinity
Nitrate
Phosphate
Calcium
Lighting
Flow in this area
Age of tank

I haven't even had it for 24 hours. I just got it yesterday. I noticed when I got it it had this stuff on it but didn't pay much attention to it. Sad to hear it is or did die.

My temperature is 77.8

Salinity 1.025

Alkalinity 10

Nitrate 12ppm

Phosphate. 30

Calcium 420

Lighting what do you mean? My settings?

Tank age about a year

 

[VintageReefer]

Lighting type, brand etc.
if led then what percent is it running at?

In sps world this is called rapid tissue necrosis. Coral expels the polyps and flesh overnight. It super fast

This is possibly from a infection or injury, or something picking at it and eating it

 

[reefthereefer]

Lighting type, brand etc.
if led then what percent is it running at?

In sps world this is called rapid tissue necrosis. Coral expels the polyps and flesh overnight. It super fast

This is possibly from a infection or injury, or something picking at it and eating it

The brand is photon v2 48 setting after 2 hour Rev up and down blues, violets, cool blue 80% green and red 15% white 8% my par range is 40-275

So it pretty much arrived yesterday dying then? I got my bix late and temp was 45 degrees. As I said I acclimated it to the tank for awhile to slowly bring temp back up.

 

[VintageReefer]

I am not sure exactly what caused it.
I have the exact same light over my 75g tank. I use
Blue, cool blue, uv - 40
White - 5
Red/green - 3

my scoly is happy on the sandbed

I don’t see anything in anything you posted that screams out to me as a problem. I suspect this was injured somehow - during handling/transportation from fish store to your tank. Or it had a bacterial infection that it was fighting off, became stressed, and then wasn’t strong enough

I’m sorry this happened to you. How is it today?

 

[encrustingacro]

also, that's a Trachyphyllia, not a button scoly (Micromussa pacifica).

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Sorry, it's dying.