Help please - trachy skeleton showing.

[ezell_tonya]

My trachapillya had been doing beautifully. I've had it for 6 months. I did a water change on Monday, tested my water on Tuesday params were good. Wednesday during my normal tank review I noticed the trachy didn't look good. I was hoping when I came home today it looked better but it didn't. Nothing has died in the tank. The only thing out of the ordinary I did was I took a rock out on Monday during my 10 gal water change to clean off some bubble algae. Some of the bubble algae busted as I was pulling it off the rock. I wanted to make sure that no spores were in the rock so I rinsed the rock off with tap water. After I did that I knew I should not have so I soaked the rock in saltwater overnight on Monday. I took the rock out on Tuesday evening and put it back in the tank. 45 gal tank.
Salinity 1.023
ALK 9.9
Ca 395
Nitrates 1-2 normal for my tank
Temp 78 to 78.5
Mag don't know, I've never tested for it
Phosphate don't know, I've never tested for it. Any suggestion are appreciated. I love this coral!
Before

After

 

[CastAway]

Hmmm.

Personally, I doubt the fresh water rinse of the rock had any negative effect on the system. I would expect it to kill everything on the rock itself, but, placing it back in the system should not have caused any issues.

I don't see any exposed skeleton in the pictures. It looks pretty healthy to me, but, I've never kept one. My LPS in general however seem to inflate and deflate with no obvious triggers.

The only thing that jumps out at me is how close the trach seems to be to what appears to be an anemone. If it is indeed close, that may cause some deflation and/or reaction of some kind perhaps. Everything near my own nems recoils away, SPS, mushrooms, zoas, everything.

Tagging along......

 

[Mikedawg]

Doesn't look like the tissue recession experienced by a sick coral - I didn't notice any white skeleton. Maybe temporarily stressed by all the action in the tank and hopefully has re-inflated fully by now

 

[Empress]

How's the water flow? If the coral gets slammed with too much flow it can cause it to tear away from the skeleton. Are you feeding it?

 

[ezell_tonya]

How's the water flow? If the coral gets slammed with too much flow it can cause it to tear away from the skeleton. Are you feeding it?

Empress the water flow is low. No I don't feed it. I've had it for months and have never fed. It had a couple days when it's re-inflated at little but nothing close to the before pic I attached. I've stopped worrying about and just have my fingers crossed it will totally reinflate.

 

[Gil03]

I wouldn't be concerned with it until you start seeing it lose color or tissue recession starts in which case you'll start seeing very white skeleton around the outer edges. However the photo it looks fine, LPS will inflate and deflate naturally from time to time...mine do it regularly especially when expelling waste from feeding.