id problem with pagoda

[Guest iolani]

I left this afternoon no problems. I get home and there is the weird rust colored gunk on half of my pagoda and I blew it off and under it was stripped dead! what happened?

 

i'm trying to post a pic.

 

maybe/

 

ok my next question- how to post pics?

[Valeria]

Hi there,

I do not know how everyone post pictures but I upload them to photobucket, copy and paste the img code and post.

 

Carla

 

If you want email it to me and I can post it for you

[Guest iolani]

let me try again

 

thanks here is a close up.

[Guest iolani]

any imput would be great. Alohas.

[dhoch]

Looks like it lost a lot of flesh...

 

First question is always what are water parameters....

 

Has it continued or stopped?

 

How long have you had it?

 

Sometimes corals just up and die for seeming no reason (typically I'm sure it's some disease or parasite that we don't know a lot about).

 

Dave

[Caribbean Jake]

are you feeding it someting during the day or night?

it looks like it is starting to bleach, but not all is lost. so you have a chance to save it. Ttake it down to the bottom of your tank under your lights (not too intense). Provide normal flow through it's entire body

and sit back for few month and wait. they usually make a come back unless it is RTN then you are looking at a dying piece.

Hope it gets better

Jacob

[Rascal]

How long have you had it?

How long has been that high in your tank?

How much light do you have on it?

Have the polyps always been retracted like that?

 

Reason I ask is mine looked like yours (minus the tissue loss - but the same color and lack of PE) when I first bought it, then started to get spots of necrosis (although not as quickly or widespread as you are experiencing). I experimented with placements and, like CaribbeanJake said, I found that it did best on the bottom of the tank facing into moderate flow. Once in its "happy place" it started extending its polyps almost all the time and became nice and fleshy looking. It recovered lost tissue very quickly - less than 1 month. Here it is after 2 1/2 years:

 

In Oct:

 

 

Now:

 

Under Actinics:

 

If it was doing fine where it was until recently than I would look to other factors, but if not you might try moving it and seing how it reacts after a day or so. Oh, and be sure to gently blow any detritus/dead tissue off of it with a turkey baster a couple of times a day. If it recovers it will take care of this itself w/ mucus.

HTH

Edited February 1, 2007 by Rascal

[Caribbean Jake]

if you are looking for ID on this coral ? - This is a Turbinaria Coral also known as Cup Coral or Vase Pagoda. It is an LPS.

 

what type of lights do you have ? how far (distance from) under the lights is the coral?

[Guest iolani]

ok i've had it for at least 8 months.

it is at the top of the tank.

I feed in the evening.

it was dying a bit but came back and was growing.

Then at random yesterday it was covered in brown slime which resulted in the bleached look. I came home today and some more had been covered and susiquently killed by it. not near as much though. I think I'm gonna try to move it to the bottom of the tank. also should I frag off the small piece (seen below) to salvage something if things go farther south? (photobucket aint working right now or i'd post a closer shot)

[Guest iolani]

brown jelly something that does not sound good