White fuzzy spots on my Sunset Monti?????

[Dowtish]

So I noticed yesterday that these white spots were popping up on my sunset monti, they look like a little tiny piece of cotton, but I have not touched the coral yet. Has anyone seen this before? sound familiar? Do I need to dip this guy? in revive or coral rx??? This is a bad pic, but you can clearly see the white spots.

 

[Ian]

they look like monti eating nudis

 

[Dowtish]

like the spot itself is the nudi? or this is the aftermath?

 

[SDguy]

They do sort of look and sound like monti nudis. But I'm not sure how they would appear, in such numbers, sprinkled throughout the colony, among healthy surrounding polyps...

 

[Dowtish]

They do sort of look and sound like monti nudis. But I'm not sure how they would appear, in such numbers, sprinkled throughout the colony, among healthy surrounding polyps...

I don't think it's nudi's personally, I have had this colony in the tank for at least 5 months and I dipped it. You would think they would have shown there face before now. I am going to go ahead a dip it again and see how it looks.

 

[Murfman]

Is it close to any chalices? I saw something similar on mine and it was my Hollywood Stunner, stinging it.

 

[Aquaph8]

I don't think it's nudis either but don't count them out. When I got mine I hadn't added anything for months and I dipped too. Do you have any caps cause nudis hit those first in my tank. Murfmans stinging suggestion sounds like a good place to start also.

 

[dakotasreef]

Any pest can hitch hike on another coral. I have seen monti nudis eat in this fashion, but usually they just eat it like a corn cob.

 

[gar732]

I don't think it's nudis either but don't count them out. When I got mine I hadn't added anything for months and I dipped too. Do you have any caps cause nudis hit those first in my tank. Murfmans stinging suggestion sounds like a good place to start also.

I noticed they like caps also, I had caps that were being completely devoured and my sunset was completely untouched. In my experience they would start at the edges and never showed up in the center of a colony.

Have you had any alk fluctuations at all?

 

[UCedumacasion]

I have had a colony for years that has occasionally done this with the white stringy things. I have never had nudis and the piece has never suffered any real damage from it. I've seen them when its gotten burned from ALK, when I've accidentally dropped it, or something on it (don't judge, it happens! :wink. If you've already dipped it and nothing came off, examined it and didn't see that you missed anything, and then continued to keep an eye on it and watched it go back to normal (as I did), I wouldn't be concerned. I'm sure that there is a lot of things that our corals do that we don't understand...

For example, My larger acro colonies looked like they were hemorrhaging for a couple of weeks and I looked for bite marks, I looked for nudies, I looked for red bugs, etc... Then I looked at it a couple of weeks later and I noticed that the parts of the acro that had looked bad had bulked up a lot. My gf panicked and thought it was going to kill it but I've always had the mentality that if its not dying quickly, I kinda let things roll

 

[Dowtish]

Ive got 3 other monti caps and all look great. and there is nothing close enough to be stinging it. I just pryed it off the rock and dipped it and blasted it with a turkey baster on both sides. the white stuff came off like dead flesh. I didn't see anything strange except for what looked like a small anemone on the bottom of it, that was yellow and green. scraped it off and it's back in the tank. I did have a an alk boost in the tank recently, but every other coral looks great....we'll see

 

[Dowtish]

I have had a colony for years that has occasionally done this with the white stringy things. I have never had nudis and the piece has never suffered any real damage from it. I've seen them when its gotten burned from ALK, when I've accidentally dropped it, or something on it (don't judge, it happens! :wink. If you've already dipped it and nothing came off, examined it and didn't see that you missed anything, and then continued to keep an eye on it and watched it go back to normal (as I did), I wouldn't be concerned. I'm sure that there is a lot of things that our corals do that we don't understand...

For example, My larger acro colonies looked like they were hemorrhaging for a couple of weeks and I looked for bite marks, I looked for nudies, I looked for red bugs, etc... Then I looked at it a couple of weeks later and I noticed that the parts of the acro that had looked bad had bulked up a lot. My gf panicked and thought it was going to kill it but I've always had the mentality that if its not dying quickly, I kinda let things roll

Thanks, missed this post before posting my previous one.

 

[gar732]

I'll bet the alk was the culprit. My montis usually react first to changes in alk.

 

[Dowtish]

I'll bet the alk was the culprit. My montis usually react first to changes in alk.

Well the alk spike causing this is what I would prefer. It did really seem like small spot of just dead flesh, and the rest of the monti was out and happy. so as of now, I'm going to be on the lookout late night, and let my alk drop a bit naturally.

 

[mallorieGgator]

My sunset monti was doing the same thing when my alk was low.