dieing coral

[reeferRob]

I bought this beautiful "Intense Blue" Montipora feom Extreme Corals. It was doing great for the first few days then about 1 week ago it fell on top of 2 large BTAs and could possibly have stayed there most of the night. Now it is dieing rather rapidly, the polyps have not opened up for 6 or 7 days. Did my anenome sting it to death? All my other sps are doing great, both color and growth wise. Parameters are:

PH 8.3
Amonia 0
trites 0
trates 20 -40 (i know high but nothing works I think it may be the test kit)
Ca 450-480
dKh 10-11.5
temp 79
Sg 1.024

35g water change bi-weekly

[Ram_Puppy]

it very well could be the anemone put the whomp on it.

is there a pattern to the death? are you seeing any tissue necrosis?

I am not advising this, but I wonder if fragging it out would increase your chances by 'compartmentaliznig' localized damage to just a few frags.

another thought is that having been stung the coral might have been doing some chemical warfare, and that might have set off some other corals doing it, possibly the anemone too and you may just have a slightly more toxic environment than usual...

carbon maybe?

dunno... just thoughts and ramblings of a bore mind.

[reeferRob]

ramble on dude! yeah I didn't think of fraggin it. Yeah the tissue is dieing back like crazy, in fact last night it was actually looking better but then this am it looks really bad. There are a few small spots of ok looking tissue althoough there are still no open polyps. I may just frag it and see what happens.

[Bill S]

PRobably the anemone. Chemical warfare. Really, the only option is to frag. You will likely still lose it.

[erick]

Also, having nitrates that high could be keeping the sps from healing. I.e., having to fight the serious sting AND battling high nitrates....not a good environment for healing. I would do water changes to bring the nitrates down for sure... Also at least frag 1 good piece so if the rest dies, you dont loose everything.

[Texreefer]

100%the anemone,, they are mean.. i had a piece of hydnophora fall into an anemone once. the anemone ingested it and spit out nothing but the skeleton.. no ill effects to the anemone :blink

[reeferRob]

well i didn't frag it, i just left it and it seems the die off has ceased, however the polyps are not opening. Any suggestions

[erikharrison]

I would still frag it, the idea being that the new piece won't be battling regrowth. It should grow out better/faster. That's a slammin Vette BTW!

[reefingood]

Do you see any red bugs?

[aprilmayjune]

I moved my powerhead once and it blew my anemone onto my clam for just a few minutes. I thought I was lucky enough to catch it in time but my clam still died. Evil anemones!

[reeferRob]

Do you see any red bugs?

I did see what looked like microscopic (I mean REAL small) lil things running around on the base at one time

I dunno if they are red bugs