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04/12/2017, 12:19 PM | #1 |
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Sun coral shedding/dying?
Looks like my sun coral is dying. I removed it from DT and hoping to bring it back. Looking at different forums about it but nothing shows a picture of this shedding.
The sun coral was doing well for 3 months but it stopped coming out to eat the last 3 weeks with target feeding using plastic bottle (Reef Roids and mysis). This morning I saw yellow bits of skin like shedding. Anything that I can do to help it recover? First picture was in February 2017, second pic is today. |
04/12/2017, 07:31 PM | #2 |
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Hi DPal,
I would try taking your sun coral out in small container of tank water and try with some stinky food (mysis shrimp) and see if it will open. I would try the for a few day, the same time each day. Barry |
04/13/2017, 05:51 AM | #3 |
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That is a stress indication which you often see when they have been shipped. Has anything else changed in the tank?
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04/13/2017, 07:21 AM | #4 |
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Looks like a WC issue. Also lose the Reef Roids and feed only meaty foods.
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04/14/2017, 09:26 AM | #5 |
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A few years ago I had something that looks similar happen to my sun coral colonies. I had about 6-8 colonies that I had for a couple of years (some much longer) and overnight most of them developed a condition that looked similar. They began losing tissue and I lost most of them. No other corals were affected.
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04/14/2017, 06:18 PM | #6 |
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Nothing changed in the tank, even my the picky Flowering tree coral is happy. Well the sun coral wouldn't come out and died (smelled). It was my favorite I wanted to start a collection of yellow, orange and black sun corals.
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04/18/2017, 05:57 PM | #7 |
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My sun coral had a small spot of yellow skin it shredded about a month ago but it went way. mine has went 3 or 4 days without opening up before but usually opens every night
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