scoly not making it :(

[Supreme Reefs]

Im dont know too much about scolys but i think one of mine is a goner... tissue is ripping apart and becoming thinner and it moves a lot in the current (even though its very little current)

Should i leave the body in the tank and maybe it will come back? does it do anything like the plates do?

 

[MarvinsReef]

Im dont know too much about scolys but i think one of mine is a goner... tissue is ripping apart and becoming thinner and it moves a lot in the current (even though its very little current)

Should i leave the body in the tank and maybe it will come back? does it do anything like the plates do?

yikes... sorry to hear Ben... can you possibly get a pic of the scolymia?

 

[Supreme Reefs]

yikes... sorry to hear Ben... can you possibly get a pic of the scolymia?

Yeah i will try to in a little bit, lights are still off :/

 

[johnnymu]

Just out of curiousity, what do you think caused your scoly to lose it's tissue? Did you have it near a soft coral? By chance was it flipped on it's backside? Water parameters? Scolys are pretty hardy, they tend to get damaged during shipping but still able to recover fully. I have seen scoly lose as much as 75% of it's flesh and still make a full recovery, it does take awhile though.

 

[Supreme Reefs]

Just out of curiousity, what do you think caused your scoly to lose it's tissue? Did you have it near a soft coral? By chance was it flipped on it's backside? Water parameters? Scolys are pretty hardy, they tend to get damaged during shipping but still able to recover fully. I have seen scoly lose as much as 75% of it's flesh and still make a full recovery, it does take awhile though.

Well before it was shipped to me it was already receding because it had too much flow from a power head. It never really fluffed out all the way from the day i got it and its tenticles never extended. I did try to feed it but it wouldnt accept the foot :/. I can see through the holes in the scoly and see its skeleton.

Now when you say you have seen it lose that much flesh was the skeleton just bare as well?

 

[Supreme Reefs]

Heres the pic, when i picked it up i saw some stringy stuff come out... i think that was its guts... you can see the holes on it and i can see right through it.

 

[ladyreefer1983]

oh wow..look how nice that scoly is...and yeah it looks like a goner....i had a bleeding apple that did the same...flesh was coming off..dipped it and everything but it still died...the flesh will just come off and theres nothing u can do...doesnt accept food either..

 

[Supreme Reefs]

oh wow..look how nice that scoly is...and yeah it looks like a goner....i had a bleeding apple that did the same...flesh was coming off..dipped it and everything but it still died...the flesh will just come off and theres nothing u can do...doesnt accept food either..

:cry: this was the brightest scoly i have ever seen and it had the colors/pattern i wanted... so it wont come back to life?

maybe i should leave it in the tank and see i guess....

 

[ladyreefer1983]

i am not sure...but IME mine died and did look like that....just the flesh came off...it is weird because the colors are still bright and nothing is changing...colors is there but its ripping and coming off...it was painful to see it day by day...heres my scoly that died and did the same as yours...
the one on the left

 

[BuyTheReef]

In my experience once they get like that there is no stopping them. Worth leaving in the tank to try for sure. Not sure what caused it to do that. Like the acans, scolys sometimes have things living inside the base that die off. You can usually see white fungus underneath and it and the coral itself will smell. This could have caused it or it could have torn from high flow. Sorry to see. Looks like that was an amazing scoly.

 

[NVTE]

Ben, sorry to hear about your Scoly

I got same experience with my Unknown Scoli. It suddenly has holes in it and the skeleton is shown. I checked the water and got low ALK. I brought ALK back to normal and it was recover really well. I don't know if ALK has to do with it.

 

[johnnymu]

Heres the pic, when i picked it up i saw some stringy stuff come out... i think that was its guts... you can see the holes on it and i can see right through it.

No, the ones I've saved the flesh is not hanging on the skeleton like your's. Mine would actually show the skeleton but the meat is still on the floor. That looks really bad man. I really hope it works out for you though. GL

 

[Emoney]

Check you ALK!

 

[143gadgets]

Sorry to here bro. I had a few that looked the same and all of them died. Good luck with it.

 

[hwntunda]

try keeping it in the lowest flow possible... mine did that to me once but eventually came back but still wasnt as nice as before...

 

[Supreme Reefs]

i am not sure...but IME mine died and did look like that....just the flesh came off...it is weird because the colors are still bright and nothing is changing...colors is there but its ripping and coming off...it was painful to see it day by day...heres my scoly that died and did the same as yours...
the one on the left

Wow that one is nice! sorry to hear about that as well

 

[Supreme Reefs]

In my experience once they get like that there is no stopping them. Worth leaving in the tank to try for sure. Not sure what caused it to do that. Like the acans, scolys sometimes have things living inside the base that die off. You can usually see white fungus underneath and it and the coral itself will smell. This could have caused it or it could have torn from high flow. Sorry to see. Looks like that was an amazing scoly.

Yea i guess it wont hurt to just leave it in there. I think it is the high flow that killed it, i was told that so i put it in the lowest flow possible. Ever since i got it i put it right next to the one i got from you (which is doing great btw). Yes it was an amazing scoly

 

[Supreme Reefs]

Check you ALK!

ALK is 9.6 i guess that is at the OK level? :/

 

[Supreme Reefs]

Sorry to here bro. I had a few that looked the same and all of them died. Good luck with it.

Thanks bro

Man that sucks sorry to hear about your loss as well. You dont have any scolys left right now?

 

[Supreme Reefs]

try keeping it in the lowest flow possible... mine did that to me once but eventually came back but still wasnt as nice as before...

Yup it is, ah man i hope it comes back