(not gonio, meant to say Duncan)
Bit of an issue.. bought some coral from a guy who was quitting the hobby. Didn't look great but took a shot at it, 70+ heads duncan for 70 bucks, I'll give that a try
Some of the heads had skeleton showing, others were looking ok. I fragged it into smaller pieces and dipped it using coral Rx, followed by a rinse and a hydrogen peroxide bath.
I knew that would stress it out even more but didn't want to chance it. Rather have 20 healthy heads than 40 bad ones. They have been in the nano tank for a couple of day now. Some are doing fine, others are dying quick. This was to be expected I guess, with them already being in bad condition, than moving and dipping etc.
But the heads that are dying are dying quick. They leave behind a brown stringy slime. I can easily blow it of with a turkey baster, and this leaves a clean white skeleton head. Gunk goes down the filter. So I thought no biggy, but today my torch is about half of its normal size. None of the other corals seem to have any issue, just the torch. Also have hammer and frogspawn in the tank and they are doing fine. But the torch was quite expensive so just wanted to make sure this isn't something else...
Bigger piece, 3 heads on the back are fine, about 15 are retracted but show flesh, others are gone. You can see the strings from the dying heads on the left side of the picture.
Another example. Some heads are ok, other showing flesh but retracted. Hammer right behind it looking ok.
I could take all the duncan out and put them in a temporary bucket with a heater and flow\led? Them do a 50% water change in the morning. But if its just stuff dying that might be over reacting a bit..
Bit of an issue.. bought some coral from a guy who was quitting the hobby. Didn't look great but took a shot at it, 70+ heads duncan for 70 bucks, I'll give that a try
Some of the heads had skeleton showing, others were looking ok. I fragged it into smaller pieces and dipped it using coral Rx, followed by a rinse and a hydrogen peroxide bath.
I knew that would stress it out even more but didn't want to chance it. Rather have 20 healthy heads than 40 bad ones. They have been in the nano tank for a couple of day now. Some are doing fine, others are dying quick. This was to be expected I guess, with them already being in bad condition, than moving and dipping etc.
But the heads that are dying are dying quick. They leave behind a brown stringy slime. I can easily blow it of with a turkey baster, and this leaves a clean white skeleton head. Gunk goes down the filter. So I thought no biggy, but today my torch is about half of its normal size. None of the other corals seem to have any issue, just the torch. Also have hammer and frogspawn in the tank and they are doing fine. But the torch was quite expensive so just wanted to make sure this isn't something else...
Bigger piece, 3 heads on the back are fine, about 15 are retracted but show flesh, others are gone. You can see the strings from the dying heads on the left side of the picture.
Another example. Some heads are ok, other showing flesh but retracted. Hammer right behind it looking ok.
I could take all the duncan out and put them in a temporary bucket with a heater and flow\led? Them do a 50% water change in the morning. But if its just stuff dying that might be over reacting a bit..
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