Goniopora peeling off?

[MarcosTacos]

Hello all,

I recently bought a couple of goniopora frags from a coral show. They are all retracted at the moment but the tissue seems healthy on all of them except one which looks like it is literally peeling off the skeleton. Any suggestions on what I should do?

Flow is moderate, definetly not strong enough to cause this IMO.
Lighting is around 100-150par
Salinity : 1.025
Alk : 9 dkh
Calcium : 480 ppm
Mag: 1440 ppm
Nitrate: 20 ppm
Phosphate: 0.05ppm
Temp : 78.2

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Bump for you!

I have not idea what to do…but hopefully someone can help!

Did you dip the corals prior to putting them in your tank?

Who did you buy them from (I’m curious)

I would pull it and do an iodine dip (but that’s me and again I really don’t know)

 

[MarcosTacos]

I did dip them. Bought them from Royal City Reef in Canada.
The frag that was peeling unfortunately got worse every day and I decided to throw it away.

All of my corals seem fine, acros, torch, hammer, acans, blasto, etc. But 3 of my gonioporas are closed up and one is partially open. I placed them In a lower flow and light area of my tank, hopefully they rebound in the coming weeks.

 

[Reefing_addiction]

Some people have a hard time with gonis. Can’t tell you specifically why.

@VintageReefer
@steveschuerger

They may have some input

I haven’t had issues except the one time I bought a softball size colony….didnt ship well and didn’t survive

 

[steveschuerger]

Some people have a hard time with gonis. Can’t tell you specifically why.

@VintageReefer
@steveschuerger

They may have some input

I haven’t had issues except the one time I bought a softball size colony….didnt ship well and didn’t survive

Colonies are hit or miss in my experience. If packed well they usually do fine. Most of mine were smaller to midsized frags. And I doubt it’s flow, especially if it’s one of the longer plyped varieties. A lot of mine are in fairly vigorous flow. And your parameters seem good. Gonis are fickle beasts in any case I seem to always have one or two sometimes that are pouting

 

[MarcosTacos]

I've had luck with just about every type of coral except goniopora, they seem to either do well and then die off after a while or literally never fully open up and die within a month or two.

I tried to dose iron and manganese, but that didn't seem to do much.

 

[Uncle99]

Here today, gonipora tomorrow.

I get these, they look great……and then they die.

No one else, just these and elegance….look great, then “poof”.

Nice looking corals though.

 

[steveschuerger]

I lost quite a few. Probably qualifies as mass murder. That being said I have a a few that are about 2-2.5 yrs old. This is my oldest that’s been with me since late 2021