What's on my elegance???

[Dalmatia]

Need some help, my elegance isn't doing so good?

150 gallon test

Specific Gravity- 1.027ppm
Nitrate- 10ppm
pH- 8.3
Phosphate- 0.0ppm
KH- 9.9
Calcium- 490ppm
Mg- 1470ppm
Nitrite- 0ppm
Ammonia- 0ppm
That was yesterday's pics

 

[bigkai]

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/showthread.php?p=944423

Here what happen to mine it did the same thing it was being eating from the inside out

 

[Dalmatia]

Thanks,,, I'll keep an eye on it. I did a dip before I posted this and it seems to be doing better (yesterday) ,,,, hope it's ok today. If not I'll really have an eye open all night looking for the "tick" lol
We'll see after work, my fingers are crossed!

 

[Dalmatia]

Ok so at my LFS, his elegance,,, all of them same thing??? What can it be? All at the same time?

 

[Connie]

Dip it in Bayer. Look in all its cracks and crevices for critters. Remove any that you can find. Put the coral back in your tank and just wait it out...don't throw it away. When I first got mine, it was starting looking really bad and was dying. I dipped it and got two Gall Crabs out of it. I thought it was a goner, but I left it in the tank anyway...low and behold a few months later, it comes back better and bigger than ever.

Here is a pic of what I got out of it:

 

[bigkai]

It looks like the same crab I got out of mine but it was to late.

 

[Dalmatia]

I don't think it's a crab? I got the elegance maybe a month ago. Was doing really good, doubled in size (from what it was at the LFS). The best thing is he has maybe 12 more nice sized elegance corals and all including mine and from some other customers did the same thing around the same time???

 

[Dalmatia]

I thought it could be something that laid eggs and they hatched? That's the only thing I can come up with considering they all shrivelled up at the same time (last week). I just can't find anything. Me and the LFS owner want to dissect one and look inside?

 

[Connie]

If you can't find anything, it may be a bacterial infection

 

[Dalmatia]

If you can't find anything, it may be a bacterial infection

Would that bug just the elegance? Cause there is nice big goniporas, anemones, acros a lot more corals in the same tank?

 

[Dalmatia]

I'll buy some bayer today and try it on my elegance and he can cut one up for closer look?

 

[Connie]

The elegance is new to your tank...it may not have had time to spread to your other coral yet. I think you have a pest somewhere though.

Would that bug just the elegance? Cause there is nice big goniporas, anemones, acros a lot more corals in the same tank?

 

[miyags]

Any luck with the bayer dip?

 

[Dalmatia]

No,,, sent the wife to buy it?!?! She couldn't find it. So I did a melafix dip using the double recommend dose something like 4ml on 400ml of water. So far it's looking a bit better but I think it's not gonna survive. I should put it in my 40g reef in my spare bedroom? Or?? What do you guys think???

 

[Dalmatia]

Sorry 4 times the recommend dose. It's like 1ml for every 400ml normal

 

[Connie]

I'd leave it be. It may recover months from now.

 

[Dalmatia]

Here is the pic from my LFS

That was today
This is mine today

 

[Connie]

Seeing all of them in the same condition, it makes me think they were exposed to something during collection.

 

[fishroomlady]

I certainly hope it does survive. I don't know a lot about elegance but yours is a beauty! Keep us posted on what happens!

 

[Dalmatia]

This was the first couple of weeks, ya it was beautiful