Brain issues

[Hitachi]

Can anyone give me advice on what’s going on with my brain coral. It looks like a corner of it is dying and has algae growing on it. The rest of the brain looks good and is eating fine. All other sps and lps are doing fine in the tank.

 

[Afrashz]

It wasn’t getting stung by anything?

 

[JGT]

Can anyone give me advice on what’s going on with my brain coral. It looks like a corner of it is dying and has algae growing on it. The rest of the brain looks good and is eating fine. All other sps and lps are doing fine in the tank.

Tissue has receded on that one lobe revealing the skeleton and algae is now growing on it.
anything that could have irritated it like another coral close by, pests, etc.

 

[Hitachi]

Tissue has receded on that one lobe revealing the skeleton and algae is now growing on it.
anything that could have irritated it like another coral close by, pests, etc.

No close corals, but I am wondering if that lobe got damaged by the goby as well.

 

[JGT]

Goby? They typically don’t bother corals. Did he make his burrow under that lobe?

 

[Hitachi]

Goby? They typically don’t bother corals. Did he make his burrow under that lobe?

It kept spitting sand on and covering the fungia, and I believe tried to bury that particular lobe as well.

 

[JGT]

It kept spitting sand on and covering the fungia, and I believe tried to bury that particular lobe as well.

That would do it. I’d clean the lobe with a toothbrush to remove the algae. As the rest of it seems healthy, the flesh could spread back over that portion of the skeleton.