Bubble in fungia plate

[MoneyPit]

There has been a bubble in my fungia plate since the "electrocution". My heating element opened up one night. ((Don't buy cheap crap)) I heard this noise from the tank, opened up the sump doors and there was an underwater electrical show. Blue sparks and grey bubbles were spewing from the open heater. I quickly unpluged it. I was lucky and only lost a small sps and the fungia started to lose some flesh. I babied it for a couple of weeks, feeding it everyday in a breader net. When it started to recover, this is what I saw. Now it puffs up everyday like it's fine. This all happened about 6 months ago. What do you think about that? It was also feeding time today.

 

[Mr E Wrasse]

that's crazy looking!

 

[Triggerman77]

Wow that is crazy!! my large Christmas favia has a bubble like that it been there 8 months or longer

 

[MoneyPit]

U have a pic of it, I would like to compare. How did it get it's bubble ?

 

[droblack]

same thing happened to a platy of mine. went away, came back, and if it pops, the bubbled tissue will die.

 

[drainbamage]

might be worth adding (or checking levels of) strontium and iodide. Both are important for health in fleshy tissue

 

[MoneyPit]

The bubble seems healthy in itself, it inflates and deflates just like the rest of the plate. Wierd...:confuse:
Ya know I don't have a test kit for either one of those. I do dose a couple of drops of iodine once a week. I know they say not to dose anything that you can't test for. Before I found this forum I listened mostly to my LFS and they said "Put a couple of drops in with every water change, no need to waste money on a test kit" Well opinons are like butt holes, everybody's got one and they all stink" lol I think I should get more test kits.

 

[condor]

i have one in a customers tank that does that. its has not gone away and it does not hurt it, just a deformity

 

[MoneyPit]

How did it get that deformity ?

 

[gar732]

Some times in the morning before the lights come on my whole plate looks like that. When I come home and the lights are on it looks completely normal. I just figured it was normal like a feeding response or something.

 

[JR's Reef]

I have a favia that did that for around a yr just and a couple weeks ago it finally deflated it back to norm but the flesh there looks really streached

 

[MoneyPit]

Well I don't plan on doing anything with it mabye it will heal mabye not. Whatever the case it gives it character. :matrix:

 

[Laird]

I have a 3in orange plate that has 2 bubble things every once in awhile. Mine aren't so round tho, they are more of a tower shape. It always goes away and then looks suer healthy so I've never really worried about it really.