Guest reeffoto March 5, 2004 Share March 5, 2004 A couple days ago I noticed a few branches on my Purple milli had died. I cut it off past the dead area. Everything seemed fine till this morning. A large section was covered in a brown slime. I pulled the colony out and completely fragged it. Is there anything else I should do to help the frags survive. Everything else in the tank is doing fine including anenomes milli's acros clams LPS ect. I plan on doing a water change today. This colony was grown from a frag and is several years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sph2sail March 7, 2004 Share March 7, 2004 What was near this colony? Anything fighting with it? I notice this kind of thing when corals are in territory chemical warfare mode. just a thot... s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reeffoto March 7, 2004 Share March 7, 2004 It died from the center moving out. The colony was about the size of a nerf football. It all ended up dieing except fo a large stalk that grew wierd straight up. This section no longer had any tissue attached to the rest of the colony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chideloh March 8, 2004 Share March 8, 2004 I am sorry to hear that Ward. I hope you get some more flow in the tank. And I hope the frag lives and I think it will if you get some more flow to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flowerseller March 8, 2004 Share March 8, 2004 In the past. I had a similar thing happen to a piece of my coral. I too fraged some and then gave each frag a fresh water dip along with the colony. Had very good success with it and several times with a percula clowns and white puffy stuff. The only thing I do to the water is declor and temp match. I dunked each piece for as long as 30 seconds and fish slightly longer. Chip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reeffoto March 8, 2004 Share March 8, 2004 I had thought about the freshwater dip but wasn't sure. I will be taking care of the flow tomorrow. I picked up a GRI 15700 pump for the return and the 2 15 gallon tanks will run off the old return instead of out of the main tank. This new pump is rated at 35 gpm up to a 62 foot head. I should have plenty of flow with that. This pump is huge. I was somewhat worrie about noise but have heard they are very quiet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chideloh March 8, 2004 Share March 8, 2004 That's good. I hope that takes care of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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