Montipora Hirsuta

[Sabellafella]

Apologies in advanced if I seem a PITA, however I’m still learning and know there are plenty of people with a wealth of knowledge here who I can take from and gain experience..

If I have to then I will just toss the frag. Would my others mentioned above now be a risk to my display also? Do I just throw all the frags in observation tank away :/

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Oh your on the best aquarium forum in the world, theres no such thing as a PITA here. It's important to understand the hobby, questions are what got all us fine hobbiest here today.
So when you see(or atleast when I see) plumped up flesh against dead skeleton, is a sign if healing. But then again sometimes it can just be something unknown like stripping.


I took an edit to your photo, this looks sketchy. It took me a while to take a dremel to some of my prized corals, but it does work. Hopefully a long time hobbiest would chime in with me, maybe show some more insight as to what it could be.

 

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Oh your on the best aquarium forum in the world, theres no such thing as a PITA here. It's important to understand the hobby, questions are what got all us fine hobbiest here today.
So when you see(or atleast when I see) plumped up flesh against dead skeleton, is a sign if healing. But then again sometimes it can just be something unknown like stripping.


I took an edit to your photo, this looks sketchy. It took me a while to take a dremel to some of my prized corals, but it does work. Hopefully a long time hobbiest would chime in with me, maybe show some more insight as to what it could be.

Thanks for the reply, we’ll work it our together for sure.. I think my dodgy lighting made the image like that as you’ve circled, however I will soon get the top down so you get a clear image

Thanks,
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[KrisReef]

The coral is under a TMC tile, the observation tank has other sps frags all came from same tank. Others are slimmer and stylo both holding out looking fine... The Hirsuta colouration seems the brown/green hue with bright green polyps which appears like others I’ve googled. I would imagine under my radion on my display it would look more vibrant etc.. On the healthy part of the Hirsuta, polyp extension is good!!!!! As pictures show.

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Sometimes a neighboring sps will send out stinging tentacles or extrude their stomachs to eat neighboring corals. Montipora are a favorate food for some sps. I've known folks who would grow montipora just to feed it too their sps for a snack. This feeding activity often happens after the lights go out and the corals start looking for planktonic food.

 

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Not sure if it’s obvious, however you may be able to make up the blister/bubble area marked red

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[hotashes]

Bump

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[KrisReef]

I reread this thread today and you originally indicated that you noticed the edges had looked damaged possibly by frag glue during mounting in the OT. I do think this frag was injured somehow during the process of collecting, transporting, dipping, toothbrushing, and finally super gluing the frag onto the plug for observation.

The puffy edge you see is probably the live coral trying to grow back and encrust over the damaged skeleton before algae starts growing over the injured area.

If you cut away the exposed skeleton the coral will not have to recover so much area, but at this point with a frag that size I would just leave it alone in the observatory until it is fully healed. While you wait for the healing to finish you can decide where in your DT you want to place the frag when it has recovered.
When you move it into the DT, carefully glue it in place so it can readjust to the light and current present in that new setting. You should be able to make frags for other reefers down the road. GL.

 

[hotashes]

So you do not consider this STN? I’ve no knowledge of sps coral to be honest.

I’m just worried in case the is monti related pest and if I put into my dt the my tropic thunder will go kaput.

I’m not sure it will stay live if I just leave it as is, I’m very tempted to use the dremel ASAP and cut away dead skeleton. Do you disagree?

If it was a pest if some form would the slimmer and stylo in same qt tank be effected?

Could lack of flow be a cause?
Could these few frags demand much as in water chemistry?

NOTE: the image below was when frags were first put into qt. notice the beginning of white patching in 2 areas?

The qt is 4 gallon/15L with only the frags in.

Thanks,

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[hotashes]

Also, if the case was I used the dremel to cut the monti, would it be best I deal the cut using superglue?

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I will add, the hobbyist who gave me the frags put them All in same small tub so could it have been stung by stylo, slimer or birds nest?

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[maroun.c]

Im more for monti eatin nudis. I can depict a couple in the pics u posted which are in the yellow circle a few posts above. Also it lools like the affected part is progressing in linear form which is typical of nudis. Id dip and ibserve with a magnifier under some good light