Scolly coral expert help please!

Tray333 · Feb 12, 2017

Today I noticed what appears to be coraline algae growing on my (cherrie coral's) bloody blue jean scolly's outer edge closest to the live rock. It is not touching the live rock just very close to it. Is this a major issue? Is it possible for coraline algae to attach to it? If it is bad thing please advise of what I can do to keep my scolly alive please..

Roy 9121 · Feb 12, 2017

I don't think Coraline would grow on that, it could be cyanobacteria.

Nick92515 · Feb 12, 2017

Can you pull it away from the rock and spin it around, better pic, and away from the rock?

Tray333 · Feb 12, 2017

I just moved it away from the live rock and it appears the fleshy part is separating from the skeleton and perhaps that is where the purple color is comming from. It is tragic that I am losing this one.

Salty1962 · Feb 12, 2017

Try to clean any algae from the edges of your scoly, they won't grow over algae.

Roy 9121 · Feb 12, 2017

I agree with salty, try to clean it off, and move it a little farther from the rock.

Tray333 · Feb 12, 2017

What do I use to try to remove this from Skelton that won't hurt the flesh?

Tray333 · Feb 12, 2017

Should I isolate this coral to keep Cyanobacteria possibility from spreading? How can I be certain it is cyano?

Nick92515 · Feb 12, 2017

I think its just the skeleton of it showing, red because of the blues

Tray333 · Feb 12, 2017

Thanks for everyone's help, I think I will try a child's soft bristle tooth brush and see if I can remove the red purple color, and relocate it far from any live rook. And hope for the best..

Nick92515 · Feb 12, 2017

You could try a baster first. More gentle.

sc50964 · Feb 12, 2017

The soft tissue is receding. Scoly seems easy but is actually very hard to care for in a long run. It needs to be fed but it almost seems like too much or too often is a problem.

dbassan09 · Feb 12, 2017

I've found that sometimes their skeleton is purple don't try to brush it off...
I would get it off the sand onto a low rock and light blow with a baster to keep sand out... Usually when they're receding they are trying to heal up but fighting constantly to keep sand out loses them the battle...
So help it keep clean and feed quality lps pellets when you see those tentacles asking for it # I use fauna Marin lps pellets # they love it...
And it should come back...

Tray333 · Feb 12, 2017

Again thanks to all for the guidance. Going to find a low rock to relocate him off the sand. Going to increase feeding also, perhaps that why he is receding. I have been cutting back trying to lower po4 for sps that is at .016 per Hana.

bblumberg · Feb 13, 2017

Tray333 said:
Today I noticed what appears to be coraline algae growing on my (cherrie coral's) bloody blue jean scolly's outer edge closest to the live rock. It is not touching the live rock just very close to it. Is this a major issue? Is it possible for coraline algae to attach to it? If it is bad thing please advise of what I can do to keep my scolly alive please..

I would take it out of the tank, into a small jar or beaker of tank water and feed it with mysis, rotifers, etc. Pipet the food over the scoly periodically so that is has a chance to eat. I have left mine this way (with the jar immersed in the sump to keep the temp) for overnight. My candy apple scoly got some sort of infection (from a Pectinia that later died) and had shrunken down to just the skeleton with a bit of fluorescence showing. Treating with Cipro once overnight and feeding every 3 days has nearly brought it back in about 2 weeks. Strangely, where it was mostly green in the beginning, it is coming back very red with only a few splashes of green.

Bruce

VelasCorals · Feb 13, 2017

Can you get a picture under white light? The blues makes it difficult to tell exactly what is going on. When scolys ship they tend to reseed and it's not a worry at all. It kinda looks like Cyno but hard to tell from the pics. It might just be the lighting or it could be Cyno covering the newly exposed skeleton. If its Cyno and you can blow it off with a turkey baster, then you want to continue to blow it off every day and place it in a spot with greater flow. Also less light on it will help and slow no the Cyno growth. No need to panic yet. I would post your current parameters. Could be something else going on to make it reseed other than shipping damage. High or low alk?

Tray333 · Feb 14, 2017

bblumberg said:
I would take it out of the tank, into a small jar or beaker of tank water and feed it with mysis, rotifers, etc. Pipet the food over the scoly periodically so that is has a chance to eat. I have left mine this way (with the jar immersed in the sump to keep the temp) for overnight. My candy apple scoly got some sort of infection (from a Pectinia that later died) and had shrunken down to just the skeleton with a bit of fluorescence showing. Treating with Cipro once overnight and feeding every 3 days has nearly brought it back in about 2 weeks. Strangely, where it was mostly green in the beginning, it is coming back very red with only a few splashes of green.

Bruce

Bruce,
Thank you for the suggestion of jar, never thought about doing that. I will try this tonight and mix up a food cocktail for him and see if this helps. I did target feed him and his mouth stayed open for while last night so I hope it got a full stomach. I will let everyone know if I have success bringing him back.
Tray

Tray333 · Feb 14, 2017

Incredible Corals said:
Can you get a picture under white light? The blues makes it difficult to tell exactly what is going on. When scolys ship they tend to reseed and it's not a worry at all. It kinda looks like Cyno but hard to tell from the pics. It might just be the lighting or it could be Cyno covering the newly exposed skeleton. If its Cyno and you can blow it off with a turkey baster, then you want to continue to blow it off every day and place it in a spot with greater flow. Also less light on it will help and slow no the Cyno growth. No need to panic yet. I would post your current parameters. Could be something else going on to make it reseed other than shipping damage. High or low alk?

I/C
I will try to get a non blue picture tonight. I tried blowing it with turkey baster last night but it appears that color is strongly attached, also I noticed that the other side of the scolly was nor receding and red is showing on the new exposed skeleton there now also. This happen with 12 hours. I will try to cut his light also a bit, and see if that helps. Thank you for your advice as well sir. As far as my parameter the only one out of the standad is phosphates which is .017 and the only thing I have been doing different to the tank in the last 2 weeks is dosing nopox. not sure if this is related or not, no other corals seem to have any outbreaks.