Anybody know what's causing this Chalice tissue to look like this???

[PR_Reefers]

I had this chalice for a while and about 6 mo. it lost some tissue due to alkalinity problems... It started to grow back after the problem was corrected but this awkward growth started to show too!! It's the dark puffy structures on the top... anybody know what is causing it? I though black line disease could be it... I dipped it in freshwater once and they dissolved leaving only skeleton behind, but as soon as the coral tissue started to recover from the dip (all color faded significantly), they showed up again! Any ideas? It's worth noting none of my other chalices have anything like it, nor any coral in my tank is suffering from any infection that I can notice.. thanks!

 

[PR_Reefers]

friendly bump.

.. anyone?

 

[chenwon54]

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i;ve had this happen on a few chalices before too. Seems normal from what I can tell. Comes and goes. Its kind of like maximum tissue expansion from what i have observed. Imagine a bubble coral deflated and then completely inflated. I guess that would be the difference. I've had bubbles come off them several inches in diameter before that return back to normal. I have also seen this happen in some favia's. Its usually evident after an alk swing like you said. Other then that.. i've not seen any negative effect and all returned to normal after a while. What is it??? GFL!

I was thinking it was some kind of cancer/tumor but thats just me using my imagination.... start the chemo!

 

[Alpha Aquaculture]

I've seen that behavior on certain species of corals in response to high light, example, the large bubbles on mushroom corals under high light. Interesting that it could happen for alkalinity swings. Was your alkalinity too high or too low? Please keep us updated.

 

[PR_Reefers]

LOL.... didn't think about before... but that may not be too far off!! a tumor or a neoplasm, by definition is an abnormal proliferation of cells growing at an uncontrolled rate, for x reason... usually mutations in cell cycle regulatory proteins!... seems very plausible to me! It would be cool to take a DNA sample and see if there are any mutations in the in the DNA base pairs..:nerd: