Bubble in Favia?

[BlazinNano]

Don't know if this gas been covered somewhere else. Does anyone know what causes or how to get rid of a bubble in a favia? I have a decent looking favia except for the huge bubble on part of it. It is on a part that started growing over the edge of a disk. It has almost made it to the rock but this bubble is ugly and see through. How can I get rid of it?

 

[CJO]

I was reading on here about someone who had something similar on their chalice. I hope it's not the same thing because it didn't work out too well. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

CJ

 

[BlazinNano]

It has been there for a while now.

 

[wicked demon]

sometimes, when I get a new LPS, favias and chalices in particular, they get air bubbles in the tissue, I think its is a combination of 2 things;
1-change in diet that is causing gas formation in the gastroderm
2-changing the direction of gravitational pull on the animal, gases float and if the animal is used to expelling a bouyant gas in one direction it may have trouble expelling them facing a different way.
It all seems to subside in a month or two.

 

[seafansar]

My favia had a big bubble in it. Wasn't filled with air, just water. I thought maybe it was trying to bud off, but it never did. After looking at it for months (made it ugly too) it poped somehow and now there's a big hole showing the skeleton. I thought it would have grown some tissue back over it, but now it has some algae growing on it.

 

[akabryanhall]

I was going to suggest making a small incision with a blade to release the pressure, but after reading Sara's response, I'm not so sure..

 

[Johnthebaptist]

I have actually had the same thing happen (bubble) in a new blast I got. It budded off in about a month and the head seems fine now. It did not float when in budded so it was water not air.

 

[BlazinNano]

I was thinking about using a needle and sucking the water out. Now I am not sure.

 

[seafansar]

We wanted to pop it sooo bad, but didn't. It just popped on it's own for some reason. I dunno, if it's bound to pop anyway, you could just do it now.

Here's a pic of it all puffed up. It's the blue favia on the left.

 

[Anthony Calfo]

could be polyp bailout from duress (neighboring cnidarians chemically irritating it, or touching of course).

I can tell from the image if this is only air filled (kinda looks more like whole polyp activity here), but in cases where its just air...you can just pop it (lance with a sterile needle).

Air bubbles can occur from a bit of light shock, particularly with freshly imported specimens collected from dimmer regions and/or the extended transit in the dark mitigated by exceedingly bright reef lights over shallow water (read: lack of graduated QT). Most corals will recover from this given time and food.