kartrsu
Well-Known Member
Bad news. Last night my torch coral fell onto my wall frogspawn and melted away a good amount of tissue around the septa. Super frustrating because I nursed the frogspawn back to good health after it was shipped to me with a good amount of tissue recession virtually past the septa. I've only have one prior experience with a wall hammer that got a bacterial infection which never made a full recovery. I'm hoping to save this coral via daily iodine dips and low light / flow + target feeding and document my progress along the way. I've managed to stop tissue recession and encourage growth on an aussie gold torch as shown below, so fingers crossed.
The immediate lesson for me is to ALWAYS secure corals with glue or epoxy. I had just moved corals over from another tank to my display, and wanted to let them adjust and figure out placement along the way. My torch was already wobbling a few days ago, and I thought to secure it, but got lazy. The price to pay for that mistake sucks! Secondary lesson is torches are bad butt stingers.
Treatment method: Daily iodine dips + low light / flow + target feeding. Using this thread as a reference: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-to-dip-with-iodine.59085/. Given the extent of the damage, and how serious it is along the septa, I go with a higher concentration of iodine, until I can barely see the coral.
Day 1: You can see the singed tissue in the middle with some additional recession towards the right. So far the coral is beginning to open as the lights turn on. It's in a new tank that is undergoing a diatom bloom, but I'm not going to move it to reduce stress. Will target feed today.
The immediate lesson for me is to ALWAYS secure corals with glue or epoxy. I had just moved corals over from another tank to my display, and wanted to let them adjust and figure out placement along the way. My torch was already wobbling a few days ago, and I thought to secure it, but got lazy. The price to pay for that mistake sucks! Secondary lesson is torches are bad butt stingers.
Treatment method: Daily iodine dips + low light / flow + target feeding. Using this thread as a reference: https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-to-dip-with-iodine.59085/. Given the extent of the damage, and how serious it is along the septa, I go with a higher concentration of iodine, until I can barely see the coral.
Day 1: You can see the singed tissue in the middle with some additional recession towards the right. So far the coral is beginning to open as the lights turn on. It's in a new tank that is undergoing a diatom bloom, but I'm not going to move it to reduce stress. Will target feed today.
