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    Posted: May 15 2013 at 8:02am
Hello again... my huge green coral has some weird white cotton ball lookin thing on it.. .Here are some pics... Should i take it out of my tank? Im worried its going to kill my livestock! Could it just be upset from the temp raise yesterday or is this something to actually be concerned about?


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That looks like the coral is rotting. I'd dip it in a good coral dip and clean it off as much as possible. It shouldn't spread, but the ammonia spike from it as well as the initial cause may cause other corals to do the same.

It doesn't look like mesenterial filaments or a sponge....
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I'll do that as soon as I get home from work. Think it will be ok the next 8 hours?
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If it is rotting, it's not ok and will continue to rot. You may have to frag the coral (think amputation) to stop the infection. The sooner you can deal with it the better.
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Headed home at lunch to throw it in a bucket with some tank water to keep until i can take care of it

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Or if anyone wants it near the west valley area you can come get it TONIGHT
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I can get it tonight. 830-9 OK?

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Will return a frag if/after it survives.
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Oh you are amazing totally come and get it tonight! I will PM you my phone number! Headed home in half an hour to get it out of the tank and into a 5 gallon bucket with some of my tank water... or should i just use fresh salt water? Either way i think i should get it out of my tank right!
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Yes. Use tank water. Not recent mixed.
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Sounds good, WIll put it in a bucket with water covering it... since its not fish do i need to have an air pump in there? or will it be ok just in water?

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I would add a powerhead to the bucket
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Doing that now
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Originally posted by justchillinuno justchillinuno wrote:

Sounds good, WIll put it in a bucket with water covering it... since its not fish do i need to have an air pump in there? or will it be ok just in water?
Coral is a living animal(s) that needs water circulation as much as, or more than, fish because it cannot move to breathe. LR and LS are the same. It's the water circulation that brings oxygen to the sessile(unmoving) animal(s) and carries off waste. Otherwise, they suffocate in their own feces. Shocked

FYI, moving coral from tank to tank can be stressful, the same as a fish.

I know it's after the fact, but I would have said to leave it. It's probably not an infection. That looks like a fuzzy mushroom. The overheating caused it to expel it's zooxanthellae algae in a ring around it's mouth. That's why the loss of color. I probably would have left it alone to recover on it's own. If it started to look like it was decomposing/rotting, there is a chance I might have cut off the good and brushed/cut off the dieing flesh before attaching it to a piece of rubble with bridal veil netting and replacing it in the tank. Coral are more resilient then we give them credit and they can heal just fine when left alone, in good conditions of course.

That's my 2 cents. I'm not looking for an argument, just saying from the look of it in the pic, that's what I would do.

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thanks for the input! Its with DMower now and fingers are crossed... and your right it was a mushroom not a sps coral.... my bad im still learning all of this fun stuff!!!
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