I think Apstasia x fell in my frogspawn! What do i do??

lulu1228 · Dec 12, 2022

My frogspawn hasn't been looking good and I can't figure out what the issue is. It might he apstasia x, but I don't know what to do if it is.

KrisReef · Dec 12, 2022

Keep us posted. My torches may have gotten a bite that got loose? They lost a few heads and I stopped using the stuff. I got a Copperband Butterfly that fixed the aiptasia quickly.

mfinn · Dec 12, 2022

lulu0520 said:
My frogspawn hasn't been looking good and I can't figure out what the issue is. It might he apstasia x, but I don't know what to do if it is.

There isn't much you can do. Once a product like Aiptasia X hits a coral, it starts dissolving it very fast. If you would have been able to get it off with in a second or two the damage might have been minimal. But it looks like the one side is gone now.

Lavey29 · Dec 12, 2022

I have had that stuff land in a bunch of my corals with no negative affects at all. Just turkey baste it.

lulu1228 · Dec 12, 2022

Lavey29 said:
I have had that stuff land in a bunch of my corals with no negative affects at all. Just turkey baste it.

What will a turkey baster do?

vetteguy53081 · Dec 12, 2022

lulu0520 said:
My frogspawn hasn't been looking good and I can't figure out what the issue is. It might he apstasia x, but I don't know what to do if it is.

This is tissue recession due to stress. First thing to mention is Wall hammer is very very challenging due to calcium needs and easy to stress. Calcium should be 380-400 minimum and water flow should be subtle to moderate and well as the lighting. Too little light and they shrivel and too much flow and the polyps shrink. Too much flow and the polyps tear off the skeleton
Elevate this also off the sand as it gets stressed easily from sand grains.
Assure salinity and phos not elevated

lulu1228 · Dec 12, 2022

mfinn said:
There isn't much you can do. Once a product like Aiptasia X hits a coral, it starts dissolving it very fast. If you would have been able to get it off with in a second or two the damage might have been minimal. But it looks like the one side is gone now.

So there's nothing I can do now?

lulu1228 · Dec 12, 2022

vetteguy53081 said:
This is tissue recession due to stress. First thing to mention is Wall hammer is very very challenging due to calcium needs and easy to stress. Calcium should be 380-400 minimum and water flow should be subtle to moderate and well as the lighting. Too little light and they shrivel and too much flow and the polyps shrink. Too much flow and the polyps tear off the skeleton
Elevate this also off the sand as it gets stressed easily from sand grains.
Assure salinity and phos not elevated

The phosphates are definitely elevated but they've been coming down bcs we've been doing water changes. Is there anything I can do in the meantime??

mfinn · Dec 12, 2022

lulu0520 said:
So there's nothing I can do now?

I was thinking that you knew that you got aiptasia X on it, but after re-reading your first question, it sounds like maybe?, maybe not?
If it just up and shriveled up on it's own, it may come back.
A lot of the time when the flesh pulls back like that on a wall euphylia, they don't.