Help with my candy cane coral

[Zoa_Fanatic]

So the vendor, world wide corals says its a sponge? Anyone ever seen a sponge like this? Strange it is not depicted in their website advertising at the time of my order.

I mean it may be a sponge. I’ve seen white ones like that before but never within my coral. I’d scrape that sucker off or blow it off gently with a turkey baster. Not too hard or you’ll damage the candy canes

 

[Lavey29]

Does it still look the same after several days now? Sponges can be a variety of colors and some will encrust and potentially smother coral but I have never seen one grow over the middle of a polyp like that.

Are you able to get another photo and more closeup of the ? polyp

Here it is

 

[Lavey29]

Does it still look the same after several days now? Sponges can be a variety of colors and some will encrust and potentially smother coral but I have never seen one grow over the middle of a polyp like that.

Are you able to get another photo and more closeup of the ? polyp

Here it id

 

[Lavey29]

Does it still look the same after several days now? Sponges can be a variety of colors and some will encrust and potentially smother coral but I have never seen one grow over the middle of a polyp like that.

Are you able to get another photo and more closeup of the ? polyp

It has not got worse nor improved.

 

[Shirak]

Looks like just the coral skeleton without flesh to me. Maybe got damaged at some point after they took a photo of it and some tissue was lost there.

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

Looks like just the coral skeleton without flesh to me. Maybe got damaged at some point after they took a photo of it and some tissue was lost there.

That is not skeleton. Candy cane skeleton is hard and a darker color.

 

[Shirak]

That is not skeleton. Candy cane skeleton is hard and a darker color.

Uh ….

so what your saying is that even though all the other exposed skeleton below the tissue on all the other heads is white, the white on the damaged head isn’t skeleton because it should not look like the rest of the exposed skeleton and should be dark colored calcium carbonate?

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

Uh ….

so what your saying is that even though all the other exposed skeleton below the tissue on all the other heads is white, the white on the damaged head isn’t skeleton because it should not look like the rest of the exposed skeleton and should be dark colored calcium carbonate?

I am saying I have several candy cane colonies and that I have nearly killed two of them to prevent burrowing worms from killing them. An no time did any tissue damage appear like what you are seeing above and the skeleton of the coral does not look like that. When a head becomes damaged the whole head either dies or you can see the spiky skeleton that makes up their structure.

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

It looks like super glue.

 

[Shirak]

I am saying I have several candy cane colonies and that I have nearly killed two of them to prevent burrowing worms from killing them. An no time did any tissue damage appear like what you are seeing above and the skeleton of the coral does not look like that. When a head becomes damaged the whole head either dies or you can see the spiky skeleton that makes up their structure.

So just because you have not seen tissue damage like that on yours this can’t be tissue damage in the photo? Something that might have fallen on a head could cause localized damage and kill part of the tissue and smash the ridges of the skeleton below.
Hard superglue has a somewhat translucent look to it. It’s not opaque white like any of the visible skeleton on the rest of the coral. If it’s sponge or glue it would be easy to remove so let’s ask the OP is it hard? Does it look like superglue in person? Can it be scrapped off ?

 

[Lavey29]

I actually think both you guys could be right. It is hard like skeletal tissue but it is bleach white while other normal skeletal tissue under the heads is dull off-white obviously showing normal color variations from being in salt water. I am trying to see if it will go away over time or if the head that is separated by it dies off. It is in a wierd place to frag saw it so would probably have to use bone cutters.

 

[Lavey29]

I don't think it's glue but it does have the appearance of dripping down and covering the skeletal stock under the head.

 

[Lavey29]

On a side note, the other 2 corals this well known vendor shipped with this piece were dead or fully diseased with BJD and crumbled in my hands. I took pictures of them and emailed and called the vendor with my observations and still no affirmative response in a week now. They are allegedly still looking into it. I have previously purchased over $3000 in corals from this vendor also and this was the first major problems with my shipment.

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

So just because you have not seen tissue damage like that on yours this can’t be tissue damage in the photo? Something that might have fallen on a head could cause localized damage and kill part of the tissue and smash the ridges of the skeleton below.
Hard superglue has a somewhat translucent look to it. It’s not opaque white like any of the visible skeleton on the rest of the coral. If it’s sponge or glue it would be easy to remove so let’s ask the OP is it hard? Does it look like superglue in person? Can it be scrapped off ?

Dear Jesus. I have straight up killed one back to bare skeleton and had it regenerate. My name says zoa fanatic but candy canes are my passion. I can tell you 100% it’s not tissue damage. A damaged head would not heal and grow bsck around the effected area like that. The tears turn a brown color similar to brown jelly disease ans basically rot away leaving a small portion of tissue. They can regenerate from literally no tissue showing. If that was tissue damage with that much tissue remaining on the head then it would have at the very least begun regenerating by now.

If you LOOK at the skeleton beneath the heads you’ll note it’s not the same color. Newly cleared skeleton has a stark white color to it that this does not. Further, it’s called “trumpet coral” for a reason. The heads grow in the shape of a trumpet. That is not trumpet shaped. It’s some parasitic intruder

 

[ying yang]

Wwc are telling you its a sponge so if a sponge you will be able to just peel it off.it does look like sponge started growing up inbetween the colony then onto Skelton off that head and now into it so try peel it off is what i would be doing

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

Wwc are telling you its a sponge so if a sponge you will be able to just peel it off.it does look like sponge started growing up inbetween the colony then onto Skelton off that head and now into it so try peel it off is what i would be doing

 

[Lavey29]

Wwc are telling you its a sponge so if a sponge you will be able to just peel it off.it does look like sponge started growing up inbetween the colony then onto Skelton off that head and now into it so try peel it off is what i would be doing

Is this with tweezers or something? Should it come off in once piece or do I need to try and scrape it off little by little?

 

[Lavey29]

On another side note the vendor did just call me and offered a partial store credit for the cane and a full store credit for the other pieces that were dead so at least that issued is resolved satisfactory.

 

[Lavey29]

Dear Jesus. I have straight up killed one back to bare skeleton and had it regenerate. My name says zoa fanatic but candy canes are my passion. I can tell you 100% it’s not tissue damage. A damaged head would not heal and grow bsck around the effected area like that. The tears turn a brown color similar to brown jelly disease ans basically rot away leaving a small portion of tissue. They can regenerate from literally no tissue showing. If that was tissue damage with that much tissue remaining on the head then it would have at the very least begun regenerating by now.

If you LOOK at the skeleton beneath the heads you’ll note it’s not the same color. Newly cleared skeleton has a stark white color to it that this does not. Further, it’s called “trumpet coral” for a reason. The heads grow in the shape of a trumpet. That is not trumpet shaped. It’s some parasitic intruder

Everything sounded good until the "parasitic intruder" part