Help with my Scuba Stevo

[rickrutland]

I had a candy cane die on me…. removed it did water changes/carbon... the Scuba Stevo below it got really sick…. showing white skeleton and polyps not coming out.

I did a dilute iodine dip, moved it to an area of lower light/flow

I see a few green heads barely peeking out, but other heads seem to be shedding brownish stuff.

Should I try to cut off any really bad heads? I've never tried to frag anything before...

Thoughts???

Thanks

[Dkray944]

The few heads that are shedding they are pretty much gone and are in the process of dying. Personally I would cut them off and remove them however its not always nessacary.

[kkiel02]

What's your magnesium levels? My mag got low and my Lps didn't expand like this.


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[Cammed_02]

Cut off the heads that are expelling the brown jelly like substance. If it's not too late the other heads that are still extending should be ok if you remove the infected heads.

[Dean]

Rick do you have any idea why the candy cane died? It sounds like you may have some water chemistry issues. I will be home tonight if you would like to swing by with some of your water and we can pull out the test kits to see if we can figure it out.

[Justin]

Were going to need some more info like your current tank parameters.

I think someone mentioned Mg levels. I have found that my corals PE tends to be really low and all my stuff is a bit PO'd when I am at less than 1400. I'm banking that this has something to do with it but I'm leaning more toward an ALK swing to be honest. I had a bad one awhile back when my probe malfunctioned and I couldn't get my ph or Alk to stabilize. I would do a big water change if you haven't done so already and test your Alk and Mg level. Once you know these guys, I'm betting its your Alk, I would slowly dose to the right amount over the course of a week or 2 weeks.

More importantly, corals like stability and we *most of us* want to correct the situation immediately, which causes further injury to our corals. A water change should fix most things and then test your parameters.

[Bill S]

Scubasteveo polyps shouldn't affect one another. Iodine dip seems to help a lot with these - assuming everything else is OK. They tend to tolerate a LOT of water abuse. Usually their problems are from getting hit, or attacked from other corals.

[Dean]

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.

[Bill S]

I would probably agree with the above. The Scubasteveo is a very hardy coral, as long as it's left alone.

The trumpets can be damaged with handling - a tear on one piece could kill it, and then run to the rest of the colony.

[rickrutland]

Thanks to everyone…. fingers crossed, but it doesn't look good :-(

Rick