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I dont see what you are referring to. The developing corallites?
Modified, but based on ab+I knew it ..... AB+ right ?
Mother colony has relatively advanced hyperplasia...
That’s what it looks like. I’ll be keeping a close eye on her and see if resolved or advances. I’m not going to change my lighting that has been successful for all of my other corals because 2 corallites are experiencing this. If it gets worse I’ll take a different course of action. Thanks everyone.Could it be hyperplasia? Found this in a thread a few years ago...
I think this person is referring to these growths/bubbles on the coral:
Link to the thread:
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Did some research about this disease and this is what I found: (Note this is quoted from a website.)
Link to this website:
- Hyperplasia (hyperplasm): A biological process that leads to an increase in the number of cells in a tissue or organ, thereby increasing the bulk of the tissue or the organ (fig.35). A hyperplasm is a mass formed through the increase in the number of cells. It appears that such growth originate from a single budded polyp that undergoes localized, rapid growth, while retaining functional fusion of its tissues with those covering the normal colony skeletonas well as reproductive properties and are found in most coral species. Although, it originates from somatic cells (non sex cell) mutations, they may well be a source of instant new species development (Veron, 2000).
Based off of the definition given for the disease, I think UV could be a likely cause or like @jda said, a bacterial infection.
Hope this helps...
I think the AB+ program is a safe choice for most people and supposedly mimics Coral Labs’ spectrum and output that they were getting when using T5s or whatever (IIRC). It’s definitely blue heavy, but it’s a good starting point and pleasing to the eye for many. I think those problem threads you’re reading are coincidentally using AB+, compounded with other issues, possibly, but I don’t think it was the program itself.I only ask because I went dark from forums for 2 or 3 years and came back to alot of people running this AB+ , I only know this by reading post like yours and other "I have a problem" post's , radiation poising is cumulative , so I wonder if this new fad of spectrum setting is a good or bad thing , going on posts , its not looking good imho. With that said I think the lights are amazing , just offer a bit too much user control. Sunlight is sunlight . Ive never dove and saw the spectrum AB+ throws out lol , 15k yep ,20k yep , even 23k (deeper) but its all white looking to human eyes.... as a side joke , when I stopped posting it was only people with radions cooking coral, now its alot more , oh wait they copied the radion spec , I hope it all works out with your coral , its beautiful btw !