My poor brain coral

[vng]

Could someone please tell me what happened to my Brain Coral? Is it death? If not what can I do to restore its color? It used to have a beautiful green color when I brought it 3 weeks ago. The green color then slowly disappeared. When this happened one night I saw the peppermint shrimp ate a piece of it.

I tried to post pic but keep getting "File Too Large. Limit for this filetype is 97.7 KB. Your file is 1.49 MB. " Is there away around?

Thanks

 

[paine43]

if you have to resize the file open it in paint ,photoshop or something like that and change the size of the picture and save it again

 

[jango]

what kind of light's do you have? how are your water parameter's? where is it placed in the tank (top,bottom,high flow,low flow)? and what was the lfs using for light's?

as for the image did you try and wrap the url with img tags ?

 

[vng]

I have two 250 mh. I placed at the bottom of the tank. Water condition very statble 79 - 81 Degree. PH 7.9 - 8.2. Cal 410 - 450. No ammonia, no nitrate/nitrite.

Herei is the pic.

 

[Daragon]

Can't see the picture, but, is it just losing its color? That will happen when put under new (different) lights. My Wellsopylia bleached out but is now starting to color back up.

 

[Scarfish]

(insert sarcasm here)

 

[RobboT]

vng could you get us your tank parameters and a picture that's a little more in focus? We'd love to help out but we need more info and possibly a better picture.

 

[etszoo]

That's what my tank looks like after a 12pack.....sorry..had to.

 

[vng]

I will take more pics and post it after work today

 

[vng]

here is the pics I just took. It had more neon green last week.

 

[Mr. Slippery]

It looks like just a skeleton to me.


FWIW, I got a skeleton of a small brain coral as a hitchhiker on some LR, and like 5 months later it is a lot larger and very fleshy. All the skeleton is now covered in flesh.

 

[Daragon]

IMO, that is dead... Sorry.

 

[vng]

What?s causing it? Is there anything I should do to prevent it happen again in the future?

 

[Mr. Slippery]

What are your tank parameters? What else do you have in the tank and how are they doing. It seems strange to me that the flesh would recede overnight without something fouling up the water.

Also I thought i remember you posting something about a missing anemone. Did you ever locate it? If that were to die that would surely cause deaths.

 

[Chris A.]

Did it have too much flow?

 

[mikestod]

That is a bleached coral skeleton! Was it just greener before that? Or did it actually have some flesh on it? Likely if it was partially like that when you got it it was already dying off. there can be multiple reasons. Where did you purchase it from?

 

[dz6t]

Looks very very dead to me. But it still looks pretty good. Very interesting shape. May be should just leave it there. The plate coral looks very familiar.

 

[vng]

Everything else in the tank are fine. I have green tree, disk coral, stick polyps, star polyps, Purple Montipora digitata, Porites.
I don?t think I have too much flow (2 maxi Jet 1200 powerhead, a return from SCWD)

 

[Chris A.]

I meant if you had lets say a powerhead blowing right at it or very close to it?

 

[vng]

I brough it at Sea Creature Aquarium in R.I. It had a lot of flesh and very green before.