Need some advice on Euphyllia Corals.
Let me start by describing the tank and its water chemistry. The tank is a 450Gal relatively new system at 5 month old.
I have a specific rock scape that I started planting euphyllia (see photo). Each layer has a specific euphyllia species (frogspawn, hammers and torches). They have been looking good, with nice polyp extension overall and good tissue covering the stem.
This week we added a large, two headed torch (Miami Hurricane) and one day after installing one of the heads showed tissue receding and visible calcium skeleton. At first it was like a mm of bone exposed. The day after it was about 1/3 of the circumference exposed. The third day (today) it looks completely dead with a few tiny tentacles remaining. It suffered a bit during installation and our theory is that this caused the initial damage and subsequently got infected and died.
any thoughts on this first issue?
second issue is that I’ve been noticing some frogspawn tentacles are short and darker. And some others are not opening at all. Short polyps throughout.
Pictures :
Euphyllia rock scape
Let me start by describing the tank and its water chemistry. The tank is a 450Gal relatively new system at 5 month old.
I have a specific rock scape that I started planting euphyllia (see photo). Each layer has a specific euphyllia species (frogspawn, hammers and torches). They have been looking good, with nice polyp extension overall and good tissue covering the stem.
This week we added a large, two headed torch (Miami Hurricane) and one day after installing one of the heads showed tissue receding and visible calcium skeleton. At first it was like a mm of bone exposed. The day after it was about 1/3 of the circumference exposed. The third day (today) it looks completely dead with a few tiny tentacles remaining. It suffered a bit during installation and our theory is that this caused the initial damage and subsequently got infected and died.
any thoughts on this first issue?
second issue is that I’ve been noticing some frogspawn tentacles are short and darker. And some others are not opening at all. Short polyps throughout.
Pictures :
Euphyllia rock scape