Matthew5664
Fish Herder
Form the front look ok but on the back branch
Look as if there some skelington showing through cpould it be splitting or do you think it wise to cut the branch of and QT it?
Help With A Branching Tourch
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Form the front look ok but on the back branch
Look as if there some skelington showing through cpould it be splitting or do you think it wise to cut the branch of and QT it?
This is common and unfortunate in torches. Shriveling like that is a sign of one out of 3 things:
Expulsion of zooxanthellae (usually you see them "puking" up stringy brown stuff too)
Impending splitting of the mouth
Stress due to either coral aggression, too much or lack of light, or unknown factors. If the stressor continues for too long, the coral will go into an auto-immune attack known as "brown jelly infection" and likely perish.
Leave it until you see the swelling and rotting of brown jelly, then frag it. One of my heads on my green torch is doing the same thing right now, I've got my fingers crossed for both of ours.
Expulsion of zooxanthellae (usually you see them "puking" up stringy brown stuff too)
Impending splitting of the mouth
Stress due to either coral aggression, too much or lack of light, or unknown factors. If the stressor continues for too long, the coral will go into an auto-immune attack known as "brown jelly infection" and likely perish.
Leave it until you see the swelling and rotting of brown jelly, then frag it. One of my heads on my green torch is doing the same thing right now, I've got my fingers crossed for both of ours.
Mr Miagi
Veins are flowing with SW, now going back to FW!
Looks like stress to me, possibly caused by direct flow onto the coral? They like flow around the coral, enough to allow the tentacles to be agitated and move, but not enough they are forced to expel water like that and collapse. Hows the flow around the coral?
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Matthew5664
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its in the 'LPS' corner with what I like to call "light whispy flow" all the other LPS are fine but this one branch one this one coral is not to happy. seemed to purk-up after a feed of salifert coral food.
Ski I got it all crossed!
Ski I got it all crossed!
its in the 'LPS' corner with what I like to call "light whispy flow" all the other LPS are fine but this one branch one this one coral is not to happy. seemed to purk-up after a feed of salifert coral food.
Ski I got it all crossed!
Lol, nice, mine started coming back today too
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