Fungia Tissue Recession

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Anything I can do to save this coral? LFS recommended melafix dip could help if it's bacterial but couldn't say without knowing the cause. Anything I should do to find out why it happened? I have it on the sand bed off to the side, it moved itself all the way to the corner of the tank over a few days. It's been in my tank for almost a month and has been having great PE until recently. Parameters have been good. All other corals are happy and growing.

Nitrate- 1ppm
Phosphate- .25ppm
Calcium- 420ppm
Alkalinity- 8dkh
Magnesium- 1470ppm
SG- 1.026
PH- 8.4

 

[Katrina71]

Is it the orange kind? Our nitrates stay at 10. If it is the orange kind, ours went through a rough patch too, but fully recovered.

 

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Is it the orange kind? Our nitrates stay at 10. If it is the orange kind, ours went through a rough patch too, but fully recovered.

Yep, the plain old orange one. I read that even if it looks dead, leave it in because it might grow back or grow little babies out of nowhere. Hope mine recovers as well.

 

[Katrina71]

Try target feeding with some nutrimar ova. I recently adding that to our menu and noticed the orange fella got very happy. I can say our fungia like frozen foods over any of the coral specific ones. I target feed them with a pipette once a week.

 

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Try target feeding with some nutrimar ova. I recently adding that to our menu and noticed the orange fella got very happy. I can say our fungia like frozen foods over any of the coral specific ones. I target feed them with a pipette once a week.

I'll check that out. I've been feeding it Mysis and the small Coral Frenzy pellets.

 

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[Katrina71]

FTS? Curious if he had been on a frag rack before you got him.

 

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He wasn't on a frag rack when I got him but I did have him on the rack the first night in QT but moved him to the glass in the morning. Maybe he got injured from the rack and has been receding ever since and I just never noticed because it was starting from the bottom. If that's the case would an iodine dip be in order?

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[Katrina71]

I think frag racks really irritate those guys. Mine was the same way. I think it will recover. Mine had the same issue for about 2 months.

 

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I think frag racks really irritate those guys. Mine was the same way. I think it will recover. Mine had the same issue for about 2 months.

I hope you're right. Deffinately one of my favorite corals.

 

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Mine was white like that all the way around. Took about 3 months to start coloring up. I worried the same way. Try not to move it around much. Btw, don't look for a puffed up feeding response on him. Never seen it on our orange one. The best feeding response I've seen is nutrimar ova target feeding. The other 2 we have are less picky.

 

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