Well Rick came by last night and we did a full water test regime and his water quality is in perfect check with the exception of phosphates being a tad on the high side. We came to the conclusion that the dead trumpet coral poisoned the scuba steveo. All of the exterior polyp flesh was gone, some of the polyps were completely dead and gone but over half looked like they have a very small chance of rebounding. Apparently he wasn't able to catch the dead or dying trumpet in time.

The big mystery here is what happened to the trumpet coral. His weekly water change routine and tank stability pretty much rules out the possibility of water parameters out of whack and he doesn't dose anything so nothing was over or under dosed. He did say that he had recently moved the colony bare handed so we were entertaining the thought of there possibly being something on his hand that poisoned the trumpet.