Something growing on my alveopora

[Wowkuh]

Can someone tell me what's growing on it? When I first got it, it was doing good. But all of a sudden it started closing up and I noicted this crap that I haven't seen before. And ever since then, it hasn't fully came out. What can I do?

 

[DSC reef]

Possibly bryzoans or sponge? It looks to me that the alevapora is severely bleached and dying. It might be recieving to much light and they like occasional small particle feedings now and then. I'd move into lower light. What's growing on the skeleton is not what's killing the coral IMO.

 

[Wowkuh]

OK will do. Low light and low flow Spot feeding. Is it true that they like skimmer less systems? If so I might be getting rid of it. I cannot run my system without a skimmer I plan to have a good amount of fish in there.

@DSC reef

 

[Retro Reefer]

Once you have algae growth on the corallites of these especially in the central part of colony it’s almost impossible to stop and will aggravate fleshy parts leading to further recession until it kills off coral.. unfortunately treatment methods such as using toothbrush and hydrogen peroxide tends to be very hard on these and Goni’s, your best bet would be to frag off the healthy sections but you need a water cooled band saw for that.

 

[DSC reef]

Low to moderate indirect flow.

 

[DSC reef]

OK will do. Low light and low flow Spot feeding. Is it true that they like skimmer less systems? If so I might be getting rid of it. I cannot run my system without a skimmer I plan to have a good amount of fish in there.

@DSC reef

It doesn't matter if you have skimmer, I've never ran a tank without one and we had 5 at one point, lol. Given the right conditions that coral can be a fast grower.

 

[Wasakie]

Can someone tell me what's growing on it? When I first got it, it was doing good. But all of a sudden it started closing up and I noicted this crap that I haven't seen before. And ever since then, it hasn't fully came out. What can I do?

unfortunately these are montipora eating nudibranchs. The same thing happened to me with an alveopora. I noticed it was stressed out and hasn't bloomed in awhile. I was doing some tank maintenance and wanted to iodine dip it, but noticed these "things" on them. THEY WERE NUDIBRANCHS. I didn't know monti eating nudis could eat alveos. I ended up battling for about 4 months constantly checking for eggs and nudis that spawned and manually removing them. the only solution I found to help was reef glue. Just glue the eggs and the dead skeleton parts.

unfortunately the alveo did not survive.

I Know its a LATE reply but it will be out here for people looking for knowledge on this. I couldnt really find anything on "alveo eating nudis" , so hopefully this helps with someone struggling.