euphyllia damage - help

[TJ's Reef]

I'm with Tektite here in thinking probably not Black Line Disease but maybe a little bacterial or algal growth on newly exposed skeleton.

Cheers, Todd

 

[benny z]

cool. i hope you're right! :D

 

[benny z]

still bailing. :(

this isn't the way i had hoped to photograph this coral...promise!

 

[benny z]

Left for the evening and came home to a stark white skeleton for that head, and I'm pretty sure the remaining head is on its way out also now. Sad. :(

 

[benny z]

This piece is officially gone. It went very fast. :(

 

[benny z]

you aren't gonna believe this one. ok, maybe you will! :D

today i was blowing off my rocks (regular maintenance stuff), and happened to see some bits of the torch floating around. sucked up what i could w/ the turkey baster. couple of these were on the sand, and appeared to have attached themselves to the sand. so! i put them in a specimen container drilled with a few holes for low water through-flow, and just set them on a large frag disk.

now! what the heck do i feed em? should i just put a few drops of some amino acid supplement in the container?

side note, you can really see led banding in this photo! lol i had the canopy up 90* facing out into the room and shooting down into the container.

 

[Carmen]

you aren't gonna believe this one. ok, maybe you will! :D

today i was blowing off my rocks (regular maintenance stuff), and happened to see some bits of the torch floating around. sucked up what i could w/ the turkey baster. couple of these were on the sand, and appeared to have attached themselves to the sand. so! i put them in a specimen container drilled with a few holes for low water through-flow, and just set them on a large frag disk.

now! what the heck do i feed em? should i just put a few drops of some amino acid supplement in the container?

side note, you can really see led banding in this photo! lol i had the canopy up 90* facing out into the room and shooting down into the container.

That's awesome! I'm a total newbie, so feel free to disregard if it's crazy. I was wondering if you would give it zooplankton or cyclops since they are so tiny.

 

[benny z]

this was an unsuccessful attempt. the smaller bits had melted by last night, and they're all melted this morning. :(

live and learn.

 

[MrDJeep123]

You tried. How cool would that have been? Sorry about the piece. :(

 

[revhtree]

Sorry bro.

 

[benny z]

thanks guys. one last pic of this piece from before it bailed. looking now, i think you can tell the back of the head on the left wasn't very happy here.

 

[GHill762]

Really sad. That was a beautiful torch. Don't think I've ever seen one like that. You said it was called a tri color torch?

 

[benny z]

I called it a tricolor torch - super deep green with yellow tips and then the bright green center. Would love to find another.

 

[TJ's Reef]

Well Ben, that certainly would have been awesome to have a few of them make it. best of luck in finding another. I'm still looking for a Red Tipped Green Wall Hammer I lost 15+ years ago, have not ever seen another. It originally came from the Philippines around 1990 or so ?

Cheers, Todd

 

[benny z]

sounds crazy!

i was having a discussion with a reef retailer buddy of mine the other day about this, and he was saying how many oddball color euphyllia he's seen perish. maybe there is something to it - the reason the common ones are, well, common... something to think about.

 

[SchantysReef]

So, now that's it's been a few years...what happened with the little pieces you found in the bottom of the aquarium?

When using lugols, how often should you did?
We had a 4 headed torch...two have died so I dragged it. The last two heads have been dipped in melefix, and now lugols...but no instructions tell how many times. This morning the jelly is slowly creeping in to one of the last two heads....but the good news is that the show thing didn't die immediately. We've been fighting this for 3 days so far.

Wayne

 

[Saint_Reese]

Is there any chance, it caught any form of direct dose to the tank? STN that fast has happened to me. I accidentally dumped directly on a polyp. Cold/hot water, too many nutrients, too much flow, feeding to fast, and textured things like coral snow can damage tissue easily if too heavy. The heads are very sensitive. It honestly looks like the tissue got roasted by something. It’s probably going to want lower light than usual. Look up zooxanthella, to understand the relationship between light and healing tissue. If you’re still concerned, smell the frag. Brown jelly smells terrible. You will know the smell immediately. If you have to guess, or can’t tell, it’s not jelly. The dead tissue looks brown not black. The skeleton looks fine. Thats algae.

Keep the UV filter on to be safe, if you have copepods say goodbye to the larvae