Sinularia Tissue Necrosis?

[SlimKrin0920]

I have a “white” sinularia that looks green now. But I think it was suffering from Tissue Necrosis. I cut off the affected region. Is this tissue necrosis? It would not blow off and an affected piece easily came off with tweezers.

 

[Timfish]

I've seen that a few times over the years on Sinularia I've had since '97. It appears to be a black type of cyno that gets embedded in the tissue causeing local dieoff of the tissue. It can be very carefully siphoned off or gently brushed off. Unfortuantely, from your description it sounds like your colony was badly bleached. Coloring up does suggest it's recovering but it's probably got a long way to go. You might try dipping it but if it was in my tank I would just leave it alone and maybe once a week gently remove the affected areas.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Oi. Seen that before. Just blowing it off. Has never worked for me. I've always had to cleanly remove any affected parts. Replacing into high flow has worked well for me. The lower the flow. The more of these issues I run into with this leather.

 

[SlimKrin0920]

I've seen that a few times over the years on Sinularia I've had since '97. It appears to be a black type of cyno that gets embedded in the tissue causeing local dieoff of the tissue. It can be very carefully siphoned off or gently brushed off. Unfortuantely, from your description it sounds like your colony was badly bleached. Coloring up does suggest it's recovering but it's probably got a long way to go. You might try dipping it but if it was in my tank I would just leave it alone and maybe once a week gently remove the affected areas.

 

[SlimKrin0920]

I cut off the affected tissue since leathers are easy to chop up. It was sold to me as a white sinularia and only recently changed after 2 months of being in my tank. Heres a better representation of what it looked like when first introduced.

 

[Timfish]

Ok, based on the pictures you've posted it looks pale in hte secodn set but not what I would call or label "white" although they do "appear" paler than I typically see for brown Sinularia. The picture in hte initial post does look bleached and with some recovery. Again, based on hte pictures posted I would think there was a big difference in environmental and lighting condtions from the conditions it was growing under in the pet shop and the conditions it's in now. But it's impossible to guess without having water and lighitng paramters for both systems. Cutting off the affected parts isn't what I would have done initially but it's certainly a good option for dealing with it.

 

[SlimKrin0920]

Ok, based on the pictures you've posted it looks pale in hte secodn set but not what I would call or label "white" although they do "appear" paler than I typically see for brown Sinularia. The picture in hte initial post does look bleached and with some recovery. Again, based on hte pictures posted I would think there was a big difference in environmental and lighting condtions from the conditions it was growing under in the pet shop and the conditions it's in now. But it's impossible to guess without having water and lighitng paramters for both systems. Cutting off the affected parts isn't what I would have done initially but it's certainly a good option for dealing with it.

Thanks for your help/experience!