Sometimes do corals randomly die?

[Longnose Hawkfish]

Hey everyone! I was just a little curious about corals and I was wondering if in general will corals randomly die. Like I had a trumpet coral and everything about my tank was fine and then most of it just decided to die on me. Thanks!

 

[Dog Boy Dave]

No, something was wrong or it wouldn't have died. If your water is right most of this stuff is almost immortal. As long as no predation or pathogen, if conditions are right they just keep on growing and spreading.

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

Ok thanks. Could it have been a disease? About 3/4 of the coral died and the remaining part looks perfectly happy.

 

[josh4107]

I'm not sure about trumpets but I do thing some corals do randomly die in perfect water conditions. For example zoas have been known to melt randomly on many different people. Trumpets are rather hardy though so something could have been wrong. Any other corals in the tank that aren't looking good?

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

Also the only part to survive was the part separated from the rest of the coral

 

[cdness]

I have had this happen too. I had a huge colony of hyacinth birdsnest. It was about the size of a softball or a little larger. Everything is great in the tank and one day the birdsnest bleached from the inside out. It was the only coral to do this. I had frags of it in other areas of the tank that were fine. Nothing changed and no parameters were out of whack...

Was there a hidden cause, probably. Did it seem like it died out of nowhere, yes it sure did...

So the moral of the story is there is always a reason the coral died. Whether or not you will ever get a conclusive answer is another story though.

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

All my other corals are looking fine and growing. :) the only other coral that is not looking to great is a colony of zoas but they were my first coral and went through quite a bit.

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

Ok, so my trumpet died of an unknown cause? And thank you all for your help! And while your hear can you help me id some of my new coral?

The picture is kind of bad but the one on the left is like a purple/pink coral and the one on the right is green with white mouths. Thanks! :)

 

[Dashiki]

left is a chalice and the right one is a favia.

 

[mike007]

Corals do die for no aparent reason sometimes. All water parameters can be perfect but sometimes they just die. As far as Birdsnest when they get big they sometimes don't receive enough light towards the bottom end of the coral and they bleach out. They as most corals like good flow.

 

[Kgedelian]

YES Corals do die for no reason.

 

[Longnose Hawkfish]

Ok thank all of you! :) and I recently bought a tiny birds nest coral and when I look at it I would guess it's receiving medium flow, should I move it to higher flow?