Elegance coral giant bubble

Triggreef · May 25, 2016

Anyone ever see anything like this? Been getting bigger for about a month. Was seemingly quite happy for along time prior to this. Not sure what's up with it. It still gets inflated quite a bit during the day and deflates at night but it only gets about 70 percent as big as it used to.

I am debating trying to pop it.

Tahoe61 · May 25, 2016

Yeah do not pop it. I see numerous post regarding LPS exhibiting this, no concrete explanation has thus been provided. It may be unsightly but I have yet to see an adverse reaction.

Ashley L · Jun 4, 2016

I would not recommend popping it. I've had three elegance corals over time and my biggest one did that. Then half of him suddenly died, so keep a close eye on it. I really don't know what to do once part of it dies. Is yours from Australlia? This is how mine looks now, after having a similar look to yours. I have no idea what happened.

Ashley L · Jun 4, 2016

Here is mine.

Triggreef · Jun 4, 2016

Ashley L said:
Here is mine.

Nah mine is indonesian but its captive by at least 10 years and has been fragged many times. I didn't pop it but I did notice that a few days after this it seemed to have ruptured where the bubble is. I have since been dropping carbon dosing and it is looking better so I'm thinking it has a lot to do with that. I'm going to be trying to figure out how to maintain my high bio load tank without carbon dosing. I've been dosing so long I don't really know how else to keep up with po4 other than that but I'll have to figure something else out.

Tab28 · Jun 4, 2016

What i have noticed. When a lps like elegance or trachyphyllia get this over ballon look. It is on borrowed time. Not sure if it is some sort of desease or virus but when any of mine of this type of coral has it. It took a wrong turn within a month or so.

Wiz · Jun 4, 2016

I had a frog spawn that does this intermittently. I don't think it is that big of a deal. The Frog spawn seems fine. I would leave it be.

Tab28 · Jun 4, 2016

Wiz said:
I had a frog spawn that does this intermittently. I don't think it is that big of a deal. The Frog spawn seems fine. I would leave it be.

Not the same as euphyllia bubble. Elegance and trachyphyllia bubble is different. It really isn't a bubble. The entire body looks like a balloon.

Wiz · Jun 4, 2016

What makes you say so? They are vvery similar corals. And the bubble is extremly similar. Not saying your wrong. But what makes you say its defanitly different?

Tab28 said:
Not the same as euphyllia bubble. Elegance and trachyphyllia bubble is different.

Tab28 · Jun 4, 2016

Wiz said:
What makes you say so? They are vvery similar corals. And the bubble is extremly similar. Not saying your wrong. But what makes you say its defanitly different?

I have had euphyllia with a bubble and trachyphyllia with balloon body. Euphyllia have always lived. When i have a trachyphyllia with it. It has never lived. Euphyllia do it and seem to branch after a bubble. Trachyphyllia and euphyllia do not branch. It you see the bubble in person. You can just tell it is not a good thing by looking at it.

Wiz · Jun 4, 2016

Oh.

well my green frog does it sometimes. And it has not branched yet. So i dont think thats it. But admitedly my year old elagans has never done it. So i will defer to your knowledge.

Tab28 said:
I have had euphyllia with a bubble and trachyphyllia with balloon body. Euphyllia have always lived. When i have a trachyphyllia with it. It has never lived. Euphyllia do it and seem to branch after a bubble. Trachyphyllia and euphyllia do not branch. It you see the bubble in person. You can just tell it is not a good thing by looking at it.

Triggreef · Jun 4, 2016

Its not the whole body just fyi it's only that one location. And although there was some sort of rupture that bubble is actually still there and inflates and deflates with the rest of it.

Now that I think of it I have a red branching blasto colony that has had a similar bubble before and continues to grow well. I'll have to check and see if that bubble went away I don't remember seeing it lately.

Tab28 · Jun 5, 2016

Triggreef said:
Its not the whole body just fyi it's only that one location. And although there was some sort of rupture that bubble is actually still there and inflates and deflates with the rest of it.

Now that I think of it I have a red branching blasto colony that has had a similar bubble before and continues to grow well. I'll have to check and see if that bubble went away I don't remember seeing it lately.

I hope you have better luck than I. Whatever the outcome. Please keep updated. A lot of people will search these posts years from now and would like to know others issues and outcomes.