well, I think I am experiencing my first bump in the reef road.
The other night i noticed that one of my little zoa colonies had a stray polyp that was very thin at the base, kinda wavin in the flow. I moved the frag down to a lower flow area and the polyp just fell off. Later that same night another polyp on that same frag did the same thing. I noticed what looked like some sluffing around where the heads were glued to the plug.
Today I noticed that one head, from that same colony (i had glue it to another piece of live rock). had turned completely white. When I touched it the top disintegrated. The remaing polyps look alirght and have nice thick stems. Did I do something wrong. Were the improperly glued? This little colony had been expanding, but now I only have three of the polyps left (out of 7 when I got it). Water parameters are good. Haven't tested calcium or phosphates yet (but I bought a kit last night and added some carbon just to be safe (thought maybe my pesking toadstool (which has disappeared, again, might be poisoning other things). The other corals, duncan, sun, staghorn, palys, zoas and mushrooms alll look pretty good (still have a few heads that haven't opened up from a colony I bought on Saturday but I think that it is just acclimation blues). Any suggestion on coral diseases that this could be... I can't take pictures because they are gone. It is important to note that the polyps that fell off were not dead. They just got very narrow at the base and fell off ... with the exception of the one that melted when I touched it obviously.
The other night i noticed that one of my little zoa colonies had a stray polyp that was very thin at the base, kinda wavin in the flow. I moved the frag down to a lower flow area and the polyp just fell off. Later that same night another polyp on that same frag did the same thing. I noticed what looked like some sluffing around where the heads were glued to the plug.
Today I noticed that one head, from that same colony (i had glue it to another piece of live rock). had turned completely white. When I touched it the top disintegrated. The remaing polyps look alirght and have nice thick stems. Did I do something wrong. Were the improperly glued? This little colony had been expanding, but now I only have three of the polyps left (out of 7 when I got it). Water parameters are good. Haven't tested calcium or phosphates yet (but I bought a kit last night and added some carbon just to be safe (thought maybe my pesking toadstool (which has disappeared, again, might be poisoning other things). The other corals, duncan, sun, staghorn, palys, zoas and mushrooms alll look pretty good (still have a few heads that haven't opened up from a colony I bought on Saturday but I think that it is just acclimation blues). Any suggestion on coral diseases that this could be... I can't take pictures because they are gone. It is important to note that the polyps that fell off were not dead. They just got very narrow at the base and fell off ... with the exception of the one that melted when I touched it obviously.
