HELP Dying Coral??

[starla]

I showed this picture in a previous thread its a Mushroom coral bought at the LFS they hosted it under metal halide lights in a 24 gallon nano cube.

I got it....and it hasn't done well from day one and today..its got this heavy heavy white slim coming from the one big coral at the top of this picture (there is three on this piece)http://www.starlasdesigns.com/coral3.jpg

the one that is sliming is the one at the top. Testing my water parameters as we speak but everything else seems to be doing well. This piece has struggled since being introduced to my tank.

So what do I do about this slim ? Its gross, is making the water dirty and more importantly is it dying and if so can I save it?

I have it in a low current area I left it at the top of my tank since I don't use MH on T5HO

Ok husband jsut test water
Amonia is o
No2 0
No3 0
Ph 8.2
Water temp is 78.5
salinity is 1.024

We are testing the others now also.

so help what do I do? I thought about moving it to the QT tank but the QT tank only has regular lights and this rock has two other corals along with a few hitchhiking corals (a single polyp and a feather duster and a zoo)

thanks
starla

[Grins]

I see where you mean I think but it just looks like is shifting to reproduce. You say it is fouling the tank though? Can you provide a closer photo?

[starla]

Hi Grins
I will try to get a closer picture I had to rest (chronic illness). Can the move from metal halide to T5's be the culrpit?? That and our lights are on 7 or 8 hours compared to 14 to 15 hours at the LFS?

Let me see if I can get a recent pic

starla

[starla]

Ok got a picture its not as clear now for a big piece of slim came off it and my two clowns chased it around and up the filter it went but I think you can see what I mean still, and if you look at the first picture taken a week or so ago and this one, it looks worse.
http://www.starlasdesigns.com/coral5.jpg


The above is a close up my husband held it for me and below is before I cropped it

http://starlasdesigns.com/coral6.jpg

so what do you think??

[Grins]

It may be trying to separate to reproduce. That can be brought on as a survival tactic and the light change could certainly have stressed it.