colt coral help

[afss]

Hi all.. my colt coral in my tank is looking bad. It has started "sheding" tissue for some reason. My salinity and temp seem fine, all the other corals in the tank look great. Any ideas on what the problem might be and how to fix it?

BTW the colt has been in the tank for over a year.. looked great till yesterday. some of the areas look whitish, the coral is in decent light, decent current, and has looked great and was growing good till
yesterday

Thanks
Scott

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Scott, I just recently went through the same thing you are describing. I had three colt corals in my tank, over a period of 5 weeks they slowly parished. None of my other corals were affected, my water parameters had not changed, I spent many a night with a flash light trying to see who or what was attacking my colts. One by one they died, to this day I am still not sure what the problem was. These corals are hardy, this was the first bad experience I have had with them.

Good luck,

[stephane]

Sorry to heard that

Did you feed your tank enought maybe he have starved to death?

Do you add any phito and do you have a reugium?

and do you have a good maintenance shedul (water change)?

Where is you alk and calcium?

What additive do you used ?

Most of the time those lost are due to one of those reason lack of food or accumulation of some substance due to lack of water change or chemical warfare between two coral .

This is assuming that all your visible parameter are ok!

And finaly sorry to tell you this but most of the time when that happen you better fix the problem fast because it is praticaly to late:(

[afss]

i do dose DT's. I have 2 refugiums with loads of pods as well as pod piles in the tank.
Calcium is OK as my acros are growing fine, and i does kalk.
The water parameters are fine (i don't test for much i go on the corals are extended and growing then all is good). all of the other corals are great and the second (other stalk of colt isn't bothered)

Only things i add are kalk and iodine.

I have heard from a few people on RC that have had the same thing happen for no apperent reason.
What i have done now is to cut the dieing parts off, and place it up closer to the lights and then into a bit more current. I don't have a Q tank or i would put it in there... time will tell
thanks for the replys
Scott

[stephane]

Everyting is top notch and you made your home work
probaby a mysteri like the flower pots secret
but you maybe could try a calcium test if you have a bunch of acro
kalk adding is not enought (unless you have a kalkwaser reactor)
maybe you calcium level is realy low. Acro and coraline could eat the calcium as soon as you add so the more efficient
win on the other.

just a last ting how about you water change shedul?

if those to ting are ok it is a other mystery lost like all the flower pot secret :(

[Andy]

Scott

I had a football size colt that was doing great in my 125 reef then all of a sudden it started to lose its colour (got lighter), went limp then started to deteriorate, all for no apparent reason. All I could determine was that the colt was attacked by some type of infection. I still haven't been able to figure out what caused the problem. All water parameters were bang on. Here's a pic of the colt when it was doing well.

http://reefmania.homestead.com/files/Colt.jpg

If the coral deteriorates any more, I would take it right out of your tank before it pollutes your system.

Good luck.

Andy