Trachyphillia fungus

[bkwonnn]

Hi Guys,

My trachy has been struggling for a while now. A replaced it to less flow, Les light, at one point it looked like it was recovering l. Then it ate a shrimp molding en now it’s struggling again.

It looks like there is growing some fungus in there, and a hole maybe from pests? Anyone now what this is, and if that is the reason it’s closed?

I’ve dipped the coral this week to sea if something came out but nothing really.

My water values haven’t been great but now it’s quite steady

Phosphate 0.05
Nitrate 10
Ph 8.2
Kh 7
Salinity 1.024
About 50 par now

 

[Reefing Madness]

 

[bkwonnn]

I’ve dipped the trachy in coral dip, and dosed all for reef in the tank. I also added Seachem reef plus to the tank and the fungus appears to disappear and the trachy is more inflated / fluffy. Let’s see how it goes in the longer run

 

[GlassMunky]

That just looks like a sponge on the skeleton to me.
IMO the coral looks healthy and nothings wrong.

 

[bkwonnn]

Only it did not inflate for months, I assume that that is not how they normally are.

 

[GlassMunky]

What makes you say it’s struggling? It looks perfectly healthy to me. It’s got color, it’s puffed up no tissue recession.
It looks puffed up and healthy in this picture

 

[bkwonnn]

Oke thanks.

 

[GlassMunky]

I mean I’m no expert on Trachys but I do love LPS, and if I saw that for sale right now I wouldn’t hesitate to buy it.

 

[bkwonnn]

Beautiful compliment thank you

 

[bkwonnn]

Funny enough it inflated for 1 day, and after that business as usual. I was thinking maybe it has some sort of pest living inside it, and it was killed but not the eggs , maybe something like that? Maybe Try a few days of dipping after one another?

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Maybe Try a few days of dipping after one another?

Absolutely not.

Can you post a new pic of what it looks like now?

50 par to me is very low. Mine is under metal halides, it does need some light, although it doesn’t like flow.

How old is the tank? It will do better in a more mature system. It doesn’t like any change at all.

 

[Goaway]

I have to ask. Is the clown fish loving the trachy?

 

[bkwonnn]

Absolutely not.

Can you post a new pic of what it looks like now?

50 par to me is very low. Mine is under metal halides, it does need some light, although it doesn’t like flow.

How old is the tank? It will do better in a more mature system. It doesn’t like any change at all.

This tank is about 3 years old. How much par are you giving the trachy?

 

[bkwonnn]

I have to ask. Is the clown fish loving the trachy?

Good point! Yes they used to host it, and never seen it inflated with them trying to host is. I moved stuff around and the clowns now host an anemone. They do consider the trachy their timeshare I think, because they still visit it a little bit.

 

[Goaway]

Good point! Yes they used to host it, and never seen it inflated with them trying to host is. I moved stuff around and the clowns now host an anemone. They do consider the trachy their timeshare I think, because they still visit it a little bit.

Yuh, they could be the issue on preventing it to puff up. Trachy looks healthy, just agitated.

I blame clowns.

 

[bkwonnn]

How about these holes in his skeleton?

 

[Goaway]

looks to be a sponge of some kind

Edit: might just be me, or angle of the coral. But, looks more like a lobo species, rather than a trachyphyllia.

 

[reef guy 56]

Mis IDENTITED coral.