What’s wrong with this chalice?

[MarkEJS]

Hi the edge of this chalice seems to be dying. Any ideas what’s wrong?

thanks

Mark

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Can you describe your concern in more detail?
How is it different than it was before?
How long have you had it?
What are your parameters?
Any other info?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

And a pic under white light would help

 

[Dburr1014]

Hi the edge of this chalice seems to be dying. Any ideas what’s wrong?

thanks

Mark

Hmmm.
Blue pic, no information.
What's wrong with the Chalise?
Low par. To high flow. Water parameters are off. A fish is bothering it. Coral warfair.
To high par, to low flow....

I don't know, did I guess one of them right?

 

[MarkEJS]

Here’s another pic. On the right side, it looks like there might be a couple of little white worms?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Here’s another pic. On the right side, it looks like there might be a couple of little white worms?

The flesh is receding from the skeleton... How long has it been like this?
What are your parameters, how stable have they been, and what type of light and flow is the coral getting?

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Here’s another pic. On the right side, it looks like there might be a couple of little white worms?

While it was out of the tank, did you remove the "worms"?

 

[Dburr1014]

Here’s another pic. On the right side, it looks like there might be a couple of little white worms?

My best guess... It's starving.
Look, to help you, we need a list of all parameters. You ask a month ago what's wrong. We asked for parameters.
We are not there to test for you.
I bet your no3 is low and po4 is low.

What lights are you using? What kind of flow do you have? Where do you keep your alk? Calcium? Magnesium? Tank mates? Do you have a skimmer? Salanity?

I can only guess without any information.
You really need to give us something or it's just a stab in the dark.

 

[Dburr1014]

Here’s another pic. On the right side, it looks like there might be a couple of little white worms?

Looked at this again today.
Is this what your talking about?



This looks like a vermetid worm bothering it. Best thing for you to do is to break the pieces off of with those worms. Or you could just dab some super glue on the opening. Either way it'll kill it. Your Coral should heal just fine.

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

Looked at this again today.
Is this what your talking about?



This looks like a vermetid worm bothering it. Best thing for you to do is to break the pieces off of with those worms. Or you could just dab some super glue on the opening. Either way it'll kill it. Your Coral should heal just fine.

I'm not sure I agree; vermetid snails aren't usually white, and I don't see anything that looks to me like a vermetid shell.

However, even if the circled area does have a vermetid snail attached, I would not recommend trying to break the chalice skeleton... Having tried my hand at fragging these corals I found the skeleton to splinter easily and you're likely to damage the healthy part of the coral if you try to do this.

(@Dburr1014 maybe I misunderstood your post... when you said "break the pieces off of with those [snails]", did you mean remove the white growths from the skeleton? That would make more sense...)

 

[Dburr1014]

I'm not sure I agree; vermetid snails aren't usually white, and I don't see anything that looks to me like a vermetid shell.

However, even if the circled area does have a vermetid snail attached, I would not recommend trying to break the chalice skeleton... Having tried my hand at fragging these corals I found the skeleton to splinter easily and you're likely to damage the healthy part of the coral if you try to do this.

(@Dburr1014 maybe I misunderstood your post... when you said "break the pieces off of with those [snails]", did you mean remove the white growths from the skeleton? That would make more sense...)

I mean break it, bone cutters.
This Chalice in my tank I have to break the bottom of it every couple months or it grows out of control. I take a scalpel to the top side where it's growing on my blue ridge coral. Scape it right down to seperate the coral. Looks like it needs to be done now infact.
I see a small tube on his and by his description, I assume vermetid snail. I do see a white tube ending. It's circled in my pic, not quite on center.

But, as also stated, it's a guess with zero other information.