I have an Acan Echinata colony that has fully encrusted the fist sized rock it’s on. I purposely isolated it on my sand bed away from other corals because the Echinata is fairly aggressive. The colony fully encrusted the rock a little over a year ago but it’s been in a slow decline and has now suffered tissue regression. This decline seems to have begun shortly after the colony could no longer expand. Lighting, water parameters, flow, location, etc. have not changed.
I have a frag from this colony, taken before the mother colony fully encrusted it’s isolated rock, that is doing well and continuing to grow on my main rock structure where it has space to expand.
Could the mother colony be dying because it’s isolated and can no longer grow?
I have a frag from this colony, taken before the mother colony fully encrusted it’s isolated rock, that is doing well and continuing to grow on my main rock structure where it has space to expand.
Could the mother colony be dying because it’s isolated and can no longer grow?
