what is this killing my montipora?!?!?

xxoczukxx · Mar 2, 2021

This montipora is a new addition. Around noon it was fine, I fed some mysis and went about my day. Checked back around 5 pm and this was on it. I tried to blast it off with a pipette but it took a lot of effort and it blew some of the color of the monti away as well. I thought I got all of it at that time, I went back just now to check and it has spread and the dead section is even bigger in just a few hours! Does anyone know what this is or how to deal with it?

also im aware of the dinos, working on it at the moment

hds4216 · Mar 2, 2021

Do you have any better pictures? That could be melting flesh or something. Hard to tell.

ATAquariums · Mar 2, 2021

Looks like you may have some dinos.

xxoczukxx · Mar 2, 2021

hds4216 said:
Do you have any better pictures? That could be melting flesh or something. Hard to tell.

xxoczukxx · Mar 2, 2021

ATAquariums said:
Looks like you may have some dinos.

I know im working on it

renzema · Mar 2, 2021

Looks like dino found a spot to anchor and is now spreading. It’s toxic so it can kill the coral.

make sure to run carbon to help get a bit of the toxins out. Blowing it off can help but it will keep regrowing. Could also move it to a higher flow sport to keep the Dino from getting a good foot hold.

lights off for a few days should slow the growth of the Dino to help figure out how to get it under control. There is a lot of info on here about Dino.

ycnibrc · Mar 3, 2021

Sometime debris can settle on your montipora and create a dead spot. You can use a turkey baster and blow off the algae on the dead spot.

xxoczukxx · Mar 3, 2021

ycnibrc said:
Sometime debris can settle on your montipora and create a dead spot. You can use a turkey baster and blow off the algae on the dead spot.

this went from healthy to white with brown stuff in a matter of a couple hours, I think it was some kind of infection or something

Sabellafella · Mar 3, 2021

Definitely took a hit from something, still looks healthy. Suck the gunk off as religiously as possible, if it continues, hit it with glue, otherwise you'll have to cut it out to save it.

xxoczukxx said:
this went from healthy to white with brown stuff in a matter of a couple hours, I think it was some kind of infection or something

xxoczukxx · Mar 3, 2021

Sabellafella said:
Definitely took a hit from something, still looks healthy. Suck the gunk off as religiously as possible, if it continues, hit it with glue, otherwise you'll have to cut it out to save it.

I gave it a few hours and it kept spreading

fragged it already, it was a new colony i was planning to frag eventually anyway just didnt expect to have to so soon

Sabellafella · Mar 3, 2021

xxoczukxx said:
I gave it a few hours and it kept spreading

fragged it already, it was a new colony i was planning to frag eventually anyway just didnt expect to have to so soon

I mean hey you can always glue the frags back together when the issue clears up! Hope for the best. Definitely a bacteria infection of some sort

((FORDTECH)) · Mar 3, 2021

xxoczukxx said:
This montipora is a new addition. Around noon it was fine, I fed some mysis and went about my day. Checked back around 5 pm and this was on it. I tried to blast it off with a pipette but it took a lot of effort and it blew some of the color of the monti away as well. I thought I got all of it at that time, I went back just now to check and it has spread and the dead section is even bigger in just a few hours! Does anyone know what this is or how to deal with it?

also im aware of the dinos, working on it at the moment

What I do is I pull coral and give a 5-7 min dip in coral rx 4 caps per gallon and while it’s in the dip I use a very soft Brissel tooth brush and gently clean the area and rinse well with the dip to clean it. Of coarse do this at your own risk but I do it to any coral with issues

sculpin01 · Mar 4, 2021

You have Ostreopsis ovata dinoflagellates (brown strings on rocks). They produce a multitude of toxins that can kill corals in hours (including palytoxin, interestingly enough). The best way to deal with them is to stop amino dosing, run copious carbon and get a UV (the black plastic Jebao 36 watt on Amazon worked great for my outbreak). If you do this, the outbreak usually resolves within 2 weeks and your corals will stop dying.

BiGGiePauls33 · Mar 4, 2021

sculpin01 said:
You have Ostreopsis ovata dinoflagellates (brown strings on rocks). They produce a multitude of toxins that can kill corals in hours (including palytoxin, interestingly enough). The best way to deal with them is to stop amino dosing, run copious carbon and get a UV (the black plastic Jebao 36 watt on Amazon worked great for my outbreak). If you do this, the outbreak usually resolves within 2 weeks and your corals will stop dying.

Match your total water volume to the UV Sterilizer to utilize it's full potential.