Issue with a torch coral in a fallow tank.

[ReefKeeper666]

My tank has been fallow for almost 2 weeks. I had velvet. I have a Handful of corals, turbo snails, and 2 peppermint shrimp in the tank.
I also have 2 torches.1 looks just fine. The other looks like there is a chunk bitten out of his base. What should I do to try to save/fix the coral? Should I move it ? Dip it? What can in do???
In the pic check the right side and you can see the chunk missing. It wasn’t like that the other day...

 

[andrewey]

Are you able to take a photo with only white light?

 

[ReefKeeper666]

Are you able to take a photo with only white light?

 

[ReefKeeper666]

Actually under the white light it looks like maybe that’s just the natural shape of the thing....
Maybe I got paranoid?

 

[Sipec]

Are you sure they're peppermint shrimp and not camel shrimp? Sometimes the two get confused, and the later can eat coral

 

[ReefKeeper666]

Are you sure they're peppermint shrimp and not camel shrimp? Sometimes the two get confused, and the later can eat coral

They are peppermint shrimp

 

[ReefKeeper666]

Anyone?? Was I just worried over nothing? Or is that a problem?

 

[Maxx]

How is the coral itself behaving? Anything different? Closed up? Poor coloration?
If the coral is behaving normally, I would guess that you never noticed it before and are just being paranoid.
No worries, we've all been there before.
I'm not aware of any type of non fish critter that would devour chunks of the calcareous base of a coral, and leave the flesh untouched. Much less anything that would be able to tear out a chunk that large.
There are boring worms that will burrow into Tridacnid clam shells, but they look like pinholes in the shell. And while they can be a problem, I believe they are specific to Tridacnid clams. Also, they would leave behind chunks of the skeleton.

Honestly, I think you're probably all right, and just noticed something that has been there all along and got a little paranoid.

Use the behavior of your critters as a guide to what's really going on in your tank. If things are behaving normally, odds are, they are alright.

Hope that helps.

 

[ReefKeeper666]

How is the coral itself behaving? Anything different? Closed up? Poor coloration?
If the coral is behaving normally, I would guess that you never noticed it before and are just being paranoid.
No worries, we've all been there before.
I'm not aware of any type of non fish critter that would devour chunks of the calcareous base of a coral, and leave the flesh untouched. Much less anything that would be able to tear out a chunk that large.
There are boring worms that will burrow into Tridacnid clam shells, but they look like pinholes in the shell. And while they can be a problem, I believe they are specific to Tridacnid clams. Also, they would leave behind chunks of the skeleton.

Honestly, I think you're probably all right, and just noticed something that has been there all along and got a little paranoid.

Use the behavior of your critters as a guide to what's really going on in your tank. If things are behaving normally, odds are, they are alright.

Hope that helps.

it def does. When I put on the white light took the pic and looked at it and it just looked more like a curve than a bite my first though was “I’m a dumb butt”! This coral always worries me a bit because he gets so dang small at night and about an hour after my lights are at full he’s huge again.

 

[Maxx]

All good my man.