What killed my Trachy?

[waldospe]

This is my first expensive LPS and it seems to have died straight away. Wondering if the dark colored growth had something to do with it?

Params are all stable and in range - I use an apex.

I’ve lowered my light and got the coral in some pretty slow current.

I don’t think it’ll be able to come back but I got rid of that dark colored growth and dropped it back in the tank.

 

[i cant think]

This is my first expensive LPS and it seems to have died straight away. Wondering if the dark colored growth had something to do with it?

Params are all stable and in range - I use an apex.

I’ve lowered my light and got the coral in some pretty slow current.

I don’t think it’ll be able to come back but I got rid of that dark colored growth and dropped it back in the tank.

What fish are in the tank?

 

[KQuillan]

Funny to see this as I just got my first one the other day and it's dying too. No problem with anything else in the tank.

 

[JoJosReef]

Would be a miraculous recovery if that trachy comes back. Do you have peppermint or sexy shrimp? Fish that like to nip fleshy corals?

 

[Lavey29]

Need complete tank parameters including age of the tank and par. Trachys can be difficult corals.

 

[VintageReefer]

How long did it take before it declined. Was it healthy looking for a while ?

 

[Doctorgori]

I don’t see a good prognosis for that trachy TBH

not a solution but sometimes you might get a rash of LPS dying…I’ve had this happen more than a few times.
Not exactly BDJ but I suspect something bacterial, I dunno

Right now I loose a euphillia head 1x/week or a trachy or a Lobo or a elegans, whatever…..

Not saying this applies to you, but it happens… Again not sure of the cure protocol either: ABC dip (or whatever) Cipro, Oxalic acid or whatever…. Luckily we got resident graymatter and I’ll follow to see what folks say