My chalice is dead!

[JGoslee]

Last night I checked all my stuff and this guy was fine. This morning I woke up and this is what it looked like.

Is this STN?

 

[twon8]

that isn't dead, not sure if chalices' can stn, i pretty much consider that an acro thing.

i would say move it out of bright light,

 

[mbunaman]

I agree move him out the light and make sure its gets a good medium flow. It will come back in no time. I had one a few years ago that a flame angel ate most of the flesh. I moved it to another tank let it heal up a little and fed it everyother night within a month I saw a major recovery. If you dont suspect a fish or critter eating the flesh monitor it. If it gets worst I would do a Lugols dip. Keep us posted.

 

[JGoslee]

Good to know that it can recover. I really like this piece. It definitely wasnt the light. I had this guy in the shade. It could have been the flow, but would it have been that fast of a recession? I have no fish in the tank. They are in QT. The only thing in the tank is a cleaner shrimp and a few peppermint shrimp.

 

[twon8]

it's possible the tank is too sterile for him, but i dont' have much experience with chalice's so I'll defer to those who keep them

 

[Zeppelin]

Looks like 1 of 2 things to me. either it got burned from too much light, or got swiped my someones sweeper tentacles.

 

[twon8]

was this in your 58? going by your signature, even in the shade you have a lot of light in the tank, good for sps, not so good for chalice

 

[Zeppelin]

I just thought of something else I did to a couple of mine last year. You didn't do any cleaning of salt creep last night did you? I had a chunk of salt creep from one of my lights get down and lay on top of a couple chalice frags last year and burned the snot out of them.

 

[JGoslee]

I actually did a small water change last night and when I was done pouring in the bucket of water, some unmixed salt did fall in the tank right in the area of the chalice. That makes me feel better. At least I know it was my fault and not something out of whack in my tank. Good call Larry!

 

[jimsflies]

Try giving it a melafix dip (in a bowl of tank water). That often helps ward off infections and speeds recovery.