Trachy Recession/Bailout Help

[DJTJ]

Hey everyone,
My trachy is seemingly receding on one side even though it has been doing well for quite some time now. I don’t have any shrimp in the tank and don’t know why it would bail out on this side like this. Does anyone know why this could be happening? Thank you

 

[fishguy242]

#reefsquad

 

[fishguy242]

hi, 1st is flow to strong across right side of brain?
next would be looking into calcium and alk levels.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Moderate-medium light and water flow. I never place mine direct on sand as sand can irritate them and the fish going after food always gets sand on them.
Feed 2-3x per week- Mysis shrimp very good and assure your nitrate and phosphate are Not elevated and that temp hasnt gotten warm and last but not least, salinity at 1.025
Light important for production of zooxanthellae

 

[DJTJ]

hi, 1st is flow to strong across right side of brain?
next would be looking into calcium and alk levels.

Here’s a video of the flow. I haven’t changed anything regarding flow for the past six months so I don’t know if it is causing the recession. The flap is barely moving in the flow. I will test alk/calc/ salinity and heat and post results

 

[fishguy242]

cannot see video, but yes parameters will help.

 

[SaltwaterSky]

Odds are it is a water quality or coral warfare issue if you're getting bailout. If you really care about it, a few aggressive (20%) water changes could go a long way to both purge and DO warfare toxins and possibly reset elements/nutrients. IMO that's the best rescue plan. Were there any corals nearby that could have stung it?

Otherwise the next main culprit would be too intense/concsist of flow on one side/from one angle on it.

 

[SaltwaterSky]

Just watched your movie - 100% looks like a flow issue. Tissue is permanently raised on the side that's "bailing" (I would call it peeling back, bailout includes mesenterial filaments).

The biggest culprit here - it is way too close to the front glass. My guess would be you have flow sliding off the glass right into that spot on the trachy.

 

[Tcook]

Did you have a drop in alkalinity? What is your PO4 level?

 

[DJTJ]

Odds are it is a water quality or coral warfare issue if you're getting bailout. If you really care about it, a few aggressive (20%) water changes could go a long way to both purge and DO warfare toxins and possibly reset elements/nutrients. IMO that's the best rescue plan. Were there any corals nearby that could have stung it?

Otherwise the next main culprit would be too intense/concsist of flow on one side/from one angle on it.

Will do! This is the only coral in the tank other than a few sticks of acros. I will move it from the front glass

 

[DJTJ]

Did you have a drop in alkalinity? What is your PO4 level?

Last week, Alk was 7.6 and po4 was 0.1. I will test again and post them after!

 

[vetteguy53081]

Video shows coral moving just a little. Not enough to pull flesh. As stated before on phosphate, I see its elevated. You want .04 - .06 max
Alk range is 8-11dkh
Mag 1350
CA 400-450
Salinity 1.025
Temp 77-79
ph 801-8.3

 

[Lavey29]

I have like 6 trachys in the tank scattered around the bottom up against the glass. Periodically they look like tissue is receding and lot of skeleton showing at night then they come back bigger and better then before. If your parameters, flow and lights are correct then I think it is just a cyclical phase they sometimes go through maybe fending off bacteria or something.

 

[DJTJ]

The temperature is 76.1 and salinity 1.024. I do notice a little bit of the same skeleton on the left frontal side as well. Should I move it back a bit?

 

[Lavey29]

The temperature is 76.1 and salinity 1.024. I do notice a little bit of the same skeleton on the left frontal side as well. Should I move it back a bit?

If it's in a low flow area getting 100 par your fine as long as your parameters are consistent. What is your nitrate?

 

[DJTJ]

I found a culprit! It was living in the crevice under the trachy and there’s a full circle of irritation around the worm cave. I removed it and hopefully this ends the issue! Nitrates were only 10 and Phosphates .1!

 

[DJTJ]

Hey everyone,
It’s only been getting worse even after I removed the worm. It’s seeming to recede on all sides and melt a bit on the front. What should I do from here? The dip would only stress it further. I tested Mg and it’s low at 1100 but I don’t know if that’s the culprit. This is depressing

 

[DJTJ]

 

[gbroadbridge]

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[DJTJ]

Put it somewhere with low flow and low/medium light ( < 100 PAR) to recover

It’s in a really shaded spot with low flow at the moment