Coral Dying?
Started by Blakey, Sep 27 2014 10:54 AM
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#21
Posted 13 October 2014 - 02:33 PM
Looks like it is starting again... Far out man.
Might have to turf this chalice and break that bit of xenia off.
Does anyone have a quarantine and want to try and save it?
#22
Posted 21 October 2014 - 05:02 PM
So this had progressively gotten worse and although I thought I had fixed it, I clearly had not.
What baffled me though was what ever it was had not spread to any other coral - yet - so I decided today to make the sacrifice and to turf it. Before I did that I was going to remove the xenia piece and attach it to a frag.
To my surprise though I found underneath the coral a huge cavity of parasites (well they resembled parasites) one was like a long centipede and had burrowed in to the exoskeleton of the chalice and seemed to be attacking it from the inside out - it was skinny but it absolutely horrified me when I removed it with tweezers and it was about 15cm long. I was seriously shitting my pants as it went mental as I pulled it out.
There was also these weird ass cricket looking lice things and some baby crabs in there, all I would assume would have been eating the decaying coral from the inside out like a family of coral killing savage bastards.
So I removed it all, cut off the tube worm things (as I heard they can affect the calcium levels in some corals) and also found 3 mussels underneath which i detached, assuming they may also be contributing.
So the coral lives to fight another day - but we will see if I have fixed the problem or not. Only time can tell.
To be continued..
What baffled me though was what ever it was had not spread to any other coral - yet - so I decided today to make the sacrifice and to turf it. Before I did that I was going to remove the xenia piece and attach it to a frag.
To my surprise though I found underneath the coral a huge cavity of parasites (well they resembled parasites) one was like a long centipede and had burrowed in to the exoskeleton of the chalice and seemed to be attacking it from the inside out - it was skinny but it absolutely horrified me when I removed it with tweezers and it was about 15cm long. I was seriously shitting my pants as it went mental as I pulled it out.
There was also these weird ass cricket looking lice things and some baby crabs in there, all I would assume would have been eating the decaying coral from the inside out like a family of coral killing savage bastards.
So I removed it all, cut off the tube worm things (as I heard they can affect the calcium levels in some corals) and also found 3 mussels underneath which i detached, assuming they may also be contributing.
So the coral lives to fight another day - but we will see if I have fixed the problem or not. Only time can tell.
To be continued..
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