fungia flesh torn

Hungriee · Mar 17, 2010

Tonight I found some horrible news about my fungia. It's shedding its flesh!

As of yesterday I still owned a happy and healthy orange/teal fungia which had tentacles. Tonight I was feeding my tank and noticed the fungia wasn't eating and its flesh was torn. Parts of the fungia were white and had no color, the other parts are still orange but no tentacles. It looks severly stressed. :sad:

I'm not sure what could have happened during the day to make this happen. Nothing really changed through the course of the day to my tank, all my other corals look absolutely happy and fine except for this poor piece.

*pic taken w/ iphone

korndogg091 · Mar 17, 2010

did it get stung? some chalices have long tenticles.

Hungriee · Mar 17, 2010

that could be it, i recently moved a chalice frag nearby it and the fungia seems like it lost a portion of the flesh.

anyway to revive it?

Maximus · Mar 17, 2010

Fungia tend to grow back pretty fast. I bet it got stung by the acan, however, I predict that within a few days, the skin will come back.

knucklehead · Mar 17, 2010

if it still has its mouth in the center i think you wil be ok..if the flesh is gone all the way to the mouth. its more then likely a goner

firsttime · Mar 17, 2010

+1 on challice stinging. Since its on the body I would suspect that something stung it.
Ususally when you have it on the sand and if sand gets covered on some portions you loose flesh on those portions.

Fungia recover quickly, give it 3-4 days and low flow and it should return to normalcy.

TwistedEnvy · Mar 17, 2010

Maximus said:
Fungia tend to grow back pretty fast. I bet it got stung by the acan, however, I predict that within a few days, the skin will come back.

I don't think so. My fungai got a very small half moon shaped stung by a ricordia that landed on it when the ric let go of it's rock. It took about a month but the fungai is totally dead now. IME fungais are not very resistant.

Hungriee · Mar 18, 2010

Tonight I noticed half of it is white but spotchy spots the other half still orange

I tried feeding it and noticed some slime but still didn't look great for Now but have moved it away from any other corals stinging it now

Hungriee · Mar 23, 2010

its been almost a week and my fungia looks like its not going to make it, i havent seen any fluffy flesh or tentacles in awhile. It looks like a big skeleton piece left with a tint of orange color.

Im thinking its almost dead, should I take it out of my tank and just throw it out before it contaminates my tank? Or should I keep it even if its dead and see if it grows babies?

I've heard that fungias reproduce once dead.

revhtree · Mar 23, 2010

It will not contaminate the tank. You need a bunch of coral going bad at once for that. I would stick it over in the corner and leave it for a couple months. They don't always reproduce, but they do sometimes.

Hungriee · Mar 23, 2010

revhtree said:
It will not contaminate the tank. You need a bunch of coral going bad at once for that. I would stick it over in the corner and leave it for a couple months. They don't always reproduce, but they do sometimes.

would you continue to target feed it? The mouth is somewhat white already though else i'll just hope for a miracle.