PotatoPig
Well-Known Member
I’ve had this Moseleya in my tank a couple weeks now and until Wednesday morning it was doing great. Fully inflated through the day, fully opened for feeding through the night on Tuesday.
Then Wednesday afternoon it was heavily deflated and didn’t open in the evening after lights out. This continued through Friday, when I moved it to an area of the tank where my other LPS are doing well - low flow, about 90 par. It’s on the sand now, but was on rock when it deteriorated, putting it on a rock shortly.
LFS I got them from run their LPS at about 70-90 par so I try to mostly match that. It opened a little for feeding in the evening, but not much.
On one side of it there are a number of small white dots, and it’s starting to brown in the same area these are present.
Other LPS are two hammers and an acan. All nicely inflated through the day, torches have good tissue extension down the stems, one has recently split at a surprising growth rate across the split… so those all seem fine.
My initial thought is the original location, (also where a torch, my first LPS, died…) was directly below the return and so was constantly being hit with flow direct from the sump and I’m worried this either resulted in too fast baring parameters or brought down detritus and so on that got into the external tissue and ticked the coral off / infected it.
Any thoughts?
Photos below with blues on and whites only.
Then Wednesday afternoon it was heavily deflated and didn’t open in the evening after lights out. This continued through Friday, when I moved it to an area of the tank where my other LPS are doing well - low flow, about 90 par. It’s on the sand now, but was on rock when it deteriorated, putting it on a rock shortly.
LFS I got them from run their LPS at about 70-90 par so I try to mostly match that. It opened a little for feeding in the evening, but not much.
On one side of it there are a number of small white dots, and it’s starting to brown in the same area these are present.
Other LPS are two hammers and an acan. All nicely inflated through the day, torches have good tissue extension down the stems, one has recently split at a surprising growth rate across the split… so those all seem fine.
My initial thought is the original location, (also where a torch, my first LPS, died…) was directly below the return and so was constantly being hit with flow direct from the sump and I’m worried this either resulted in too fast baring parameters or brought down detritus and so on that got into the external tissue and ticked the coral off / infected it.
Any thoughts?
Photos below with blues on and whites only.
