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    Posted: July 07 2004 at 2:04pm
Recently I bought a very cool green millipora coral from another member of the club and put it in my tank. After about a months time the coral does not seem to be doing well. It is definaltly not as green and it seems to be bleaching/dying from the underside up. It is just now reaching up into some of the branches.

My levels are all good (380 calcium and 2.5-3.0 meg/ltr Alk I think) and it seems to have good lighting and ok water flow. It is in the middle of a 250W 10k XM and a 250W 20k XM.

I don't know why it is unhappy but I definatly don't want to lose it altogeather.

Also I have a clown goby that is in it 24/7

Any ideas on what is wrong?

Should I leave it where it is and see what happens, Move it, or frag it to pieces in hopes of a piece living through the ordeal?

Thanks.
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Personally I would frag a few pieces off and hope that you can save the coral.  No idea what's wrong though.
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i would sell a frag ot two also... that way you have a "backup" in someone elses tank.
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Here's a couple pics of the milli in question.

Backside (notice the missing tissue)

 

This is the top of the coral
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Looks to me like a lack of flow on the back side.  I would relocate it and see if it recovers.  The color changing could be nothing more than the different environment it's living in.
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That was my suggestion too.  More current.  There were small air bubbles trapped under the coral too.  Normally, I'm not too concerned about bubbles in the tank unless they become stagnate and congregate in one spot.
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