Cynarina Struggling

[mervin]

I’m stumped

All other meat corals, sps, lps, mushrooms, and softies doing spectacular!

Alk=8, Ca=420, Mg=1350

PO4= .07

NO3= 10

PAR 80

Already dipped in iodine, potassium salts, cipro, etc. Only had for 1.5 months….It was fully expanded for the first 2 weeks…It ate well those 2 weeks..After the 2 weeks it has not inflated....I have not changed any parameters since obtaining this coral... I’ve been doing research online and looks like no one has answers…Oddly enough I went to fish stores nearby and most of their cynarina was struggling kind of like mine

Hopefully someone has run into this situation before and can enlighten the reefing community.

Thanks!

 

[BryanM]

Super hard to tell with that light.

Is it half out of the water in the pics?

Do you have any fish or crabs that might be nipping at it? my filefish got a taste for softies and he had to go.

Just guessing, maybe too much flow.

 

[mervin]

Flow in low. Sorry for the blue lights. But when you see in person you see stringy almost messenterial filament looking things around the perimeter on the flesh. The mouth looks normal not gaping no messenterial filament…However, the flesh has that messenterial filament look which I’ve never seen before.

 

[mervin]

Super hard to tell with that light.

Is it half out of the water in the pics?

Do you have any fish or crabs that might be nipping at it? my filefish got a taste for softies and he had to go.

Just guessing, maybe too much flow.

No predators. I have trachy, welso, blastos, indophyllia, fully expanded right next to the sick cynarina.

 

[mervin]

That’s why I hesitated for a while to post because this may be the hardest one to figure out. I’ve never run into this before.

 

[VintageReefer]

What is happening to your Cynarina happens to me with acanthophyllia.

Despite having multiple trachy, scoly, Cynarina, wellso, symphyllia etc all doing well.

If I add an acantho, anywhere, within roughly a month it does this and dies. While everything else that is extremely similar, does well.

 

[mervin]

What is happening to your Cynarina happens to me with acanthophyllia.

Despite having multiple trachy, scoly, Cynarina, wellso, symphyllia etc all doing well.

If I add an acantho, anywhere, within roughly a month it does this and dies. While everything else that is extremely similar, does well.

Thanks for the reply! I’ve kept cynarina for 2 years before along with acanthophyllia. I had them both for 2 years….I killed them because I changed too many parameters at once to accommodate acros…Big mistake….So I have this other tank and I made sure I didn’t change any parameters….I’m stumped! I just don’t like to lose. Cynarina from my past experience is a very easy coral. I even used nasty well water with the one that lasted for 2 years. No3 in that tank was 187ppm.

 

[JoJosReef]

Mine seems to be starting along the same path:

This was last week:

It is probably getting 150 PAR, which might be too much for it. Same with flow. I may scoot it back so the rock behind it is shielding it. NO3 >100 probably not helping...

 

[Shirak]

Mine did best around 50 par, low-medium flow. Feed every other day or so at night with meaty food. If I got lazy and didn't feed them frequently they would start to recede.

 

[VintageReefer]

Mine are in approx 80-100 par
Low flow
Feed every 2-3 days, meaty food. Not powder stuff

 

[mervin]

Nice one! Mine looked like that. My flow is low. Light is low. All parameters good. Did all dips. All corals look good except this one. Now I did forget to mention that i found a critter I never seen before when I did the pest dip. I’ll have to see if i can find the pic. That critter died a couple weeks ago. Maybe that critter did some irreversible damage.

 

[BryanM]

Mine get meaty food and benereef.

I had a filefish nibbling on mine, looked worse than these bad pics. Got him tucked away in lower light and flow, and he's made a complete recovery and then some.

 

[mervin]

Mine get meaty food and benereef.

I had a filefish nibbling on mine, looked worse than these bad pics. Got him tucked away in lower light and flow, and he's made a complete recovery and then some.

Thanks for the reply Bryan!
Nothing picking on mine. All meat corals and other corals in the tank are growing and colorful. This one is a doozy. I’ll try to find that critter I took a pic of that was exposed from a pest dip. Never seen this pest before either.

 

[mervin]

Here’s a better pic.