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FAQs about Faviid Coral Trauma
FAQs on Faviid Disease:
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FAQs on Faviid Disease by Category:
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Environmental (Pollution/Poisoning, Lighting...),
Nutritional, Social (Allelopathy),
Pathogenic (Infectious, Parasitic, Viral)
Predatory/Pest, Treatments
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FAQs on Stony Coral Disease: Stony Coral Disease 1, Stony Coral Disease 2, Stony Coral Disease 3, Stony Coral Disease 4, Stony Coral Disease 5, Stony Coral Disease 6, Stony Coral Disease 7, Stony Coral Disease 8, Stony Coral Disease 9, Stony Coral Disease 10, Stony Coral Disease 11, Stony Coral Disease
12, Stony Coral Disease 13,
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Stony Coral Disease 15, Stony Coral
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FAQs on Stony Coral Disease by Category: Diagnosing:
Environmental (Pollution/Poisoning, Lighting...),
Nutritional, Social (Allelopathy),
Trauma,
Pathogenic (Infectious, Parasitic, Viral)
Predatory/Pest,
Treatments
FAQs on Stony Coral Disease by Type: Brown Jelly Disease, RTN,
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Recovering from Sandy - Is my coral dead?
11/11/12
> Hi
> I appreciate you reading my question. I lost power for a week due to
Sandy. My only loss was my fish tank so I am very lucky. I have a 30
gallon reef tank with live rock, two brain corals (Favites or Goniastrea and
a Trachyphyllia geoffroyi), some soft button and leather corals (Zoanthid,
Protopalythoa and Rhodactis) and two Damsel fish. The tank is 8 years
old and I have kept the coral for at least 6 years. Prior to the power
outage, I changed 25% of the water every two weeks and during the weeklong
power outage I periodically tried to circulate the water (with a cup) and I
performed two 2.5 gallon water changes. Despite my efforts, the tank
suffered from lack of filtration, light and warm water. I have
attached two photos: the first taken in 2007 when the coral was very new to
my tank, the second taken today, one week after power was restored to my
house. My questions are simple. Is my brain coral dead?
<Not quite all the way dead>
Should I remove them from the tank
<I would not move>
The fish, button and leather corals all seem to be OK.
> Thank you again. I appreciate your expert advice.
<Keep the faith... as long as there is some attendant tissue, just white
(not algae covered) skeleton, these Stony corals may well come back. Bob
Fenner>
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Re: Recovering from Sandy - Is my coral dead?
11/15/12
Thank you for answering the question so quickly. The open brain coral is
recovering nicely. I am not sure about the other one. I will continue to
monitor.
<Ah good. BobF>
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Pineapple Coral, bleached coral
4/1/07 Hi, <Hello Christina, Mich here.> First I'd
like to say thanks for having such a wonderful website! <Thank
you for your kind words.> I started a saltwater tank 2 years ago
- and it has become a wonderful hobby. <Happy to hear this.>
I couldn't have done it w/ out your knowledge & expertise.
<Glad you have found helpful information.> My problem is that
I bought a pineapple/brain coral a couple months ago from Live
Aquaria.com. It was cold out when they shipped and the heat packs
didn't stay warm. Well, I acclimated the brain coral anyways in
a low light spot and a couple weeks later, I noticed that the back
part that wasn't getting any light had turned almost white (but
still completely fleshy). I thought it was dying and one evening I
saw very small sweeper tentacles (about 1/4 inch coming out of it).
Then I moved it to a more lit location (see pics).
<Oh yes, the photos are not showing a pretty
picture. This coral appears rather
bleached. Needs more light and some supplemental feeding
with foods soaked in the vitamin supplement Selcon.>
One of my fish nipped at it once out of curiosity and the nick
completely healed in a just few days - which was surprising!
<Quite, with how bleached the coral is.> So I know it's
still alive. I don't know why the color is so washed out in the
back. It's been in it's new location for almost 3 weeks now
and no change. <Takes time, but this coral is not happy.> I
have only seen the sweeper tentacles that one time. Any
suggestions? <Supplemental feedings and slowly, gradually, place
it higher in the tank.> Thanks,
<Welcome, Mich>
Christina |
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Re: Candy Cane...the polyp stands alone.
1/3/07 Hi Crew, <Hi there! Mich with
you again.> I wrote in about a week ago about an accident with
my candy cane. I have a glass cover which fell into the tank and
cracked off one branch with 3 polyps. At that time I took the
branch and put it into a small hole in a rock. What remained on
the original piece was two branches, one with nothing alive on it
and the other a fairly large polyp. There is hair algae on this
piece so from time to time I take a brush to it. Well, this time
while I was brushing, the remaining polyp came off just at the
point where the new growth attaches to the skeleton. I will
explain how this polyp looks. It has a brown ring with a teal
inside. The brown part (which is smooth) goes down the branch
about an inch till the point where there is a hard rough
skeleton. I am not sure how much of the brown part is soft since
I try not to touch it. In any case the whole brown part came off
the branch. I put it in the sand and last night after the lights
went out the tentacles did come out. Is there anything else I
should do? <Hmm, Not such a good
situation. The fact that the tentacles are still
expanding is a good sign. Though it is possible that
this polyp could survive, it is does not have a favorable
prognosis. They best you can do at this point is try
to feed it and keep it clear of debris. Good
luck. -Mich>
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02/22/07 Hi Crew, This is an update to my candy cane polyp that
fell off. It is about 8 weeks later and it is still alive. The teal
color went away for a couple weeks and now it is back. Also the
tentacles which used to be about 1/2 inch and had at least 50 of
them are now few in number but very long, over an inch. It is in
the sand as is about an inch tall but it has not grown as far as I
can tell. But it is a very large plump polyp. It is in the center
of this picture. <Thank you for this update. It
appears to be in decent shape. Looks like there is some
skeleton formation under the polyp which would be a very good
thing! -Mich> |
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Torch or Candy Cane coral Hello Crew, Another
day in this excellent hobby. Another day to worry about things huh?
Quick question. Do Candy Cane corals recover from damage? I have a
cluster with 9 polyps but recently I was on vacation for 3 days and one
of my triggers damaged 3 of the polyps (1 now has tissue only in the
middle - and the other 2 were partially bitten). Will they grow the
stony part back (assuming they will not get damaged again? I made the
mistake and left the lights on every day and the trigger, which was
left unfed, turned against it. I have previously left my fish unfed for
a weekend or so but with no incident. I've had this coral for a
year. I am adding iodine/calcium/trace elements as per direction. I can
see the tissue on the coral trying to connect but I'm not sure if
the stony part will grow back? >>The coral should recover and the
stony part may or may not grow back. The important part is to make sure
there is no further damage. Are you testing for iodine and calcium and
other trace elements? A good rule of thumb is to only add what you can
test for because otherwise you can easily be overdosing or just wasting
money. I am not a big fan of adding anything other than a two part Ca
solution regularly, and with regular water changes your trace element
levels should stay at the correct level. Rich>> Keep up the good
job - I always consult your site when in doubt. It is an excellent
source for reference. Have a nice day.
Dimitri
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