Cantusaurus
Well-Known Member
Hey, so I’ve had a slight rough patch with my tank the past couple months. Most things have been fine, but it all started when my pink hammer decided to start receding and 2 heads slowly died off. I dipped and removed the dead heads and now it is all healthy and good. It was not brown jelly, but it seemed like STN perhaps. But my other green hammer I’ve had for more then a year started having a worse issue, and it looked like it was trying to do polyp bailout. It looked fine, but suddenly looked terrible. It had looked like it was splitting so I was gutted by this since it had 2 heads and was not likely heading toward 4-5. I dipped it and everything, and it looked decent for a while, but suddenly… it did polyp bailout. It looked like it was splitting into 3 heads from 1, and it looks like 2 out of 3 survived and bailed out. There’s a bit of skeleton attached, but it fully detached on its own, and I dipped it and attached it to a frag plug (where knock on wood it’s looking decent).
So this is all insane to me, but some of my acans over the past couple weeks to month have slowly been receding. It’s weird though, because my acans have always done well, and my other 3 acans have look unphased. But this is similar to my euphyllias since my frogspawn I’ve had for about over a year, has looked amazing despite my 2 clowns hosting it. So strange to say the least. I think it’s maybe due to the corals not being glued down, but having large bases. So occasionally an urchin may knock the base a bit and maybe the corals weren’t happy about occasionally moving a bit here and there. Not sure about my acans though. But I feel like it’s due to stress and maybe hermits, I feel my hermits may be playing a part in some of this. Since I sometimes see them on or near my acans, and I think if they were slightly stressed, the hermits would start picking at them.
But I think it has to be them since my plate coral which has looked great just suddenly looked like absolute…. Well like this when I got home. It looks horrible. And I dipped it and put it back in the tank in a lower lighting location so it can hopefully recover
but I feel my hermits are looking very suspicious after the plate coral. Like this is super strange. I need to do more testing, but my Monti Caps look great, birdsnests, and Stylo.
Along with my Xenia, and my other LPS. So this is super strange, it’s not like it’s a lack of nutrients or whatever.
But I think it has to be them since my plate coral which has looked great just suddenly looked like absolute…. Well like this when I got home. It looks horrible. And I dipped it and put it back in the tank in a lower lighting location so it can hopefully recover
but I feel my hermits are looking very suspicious after the plate coral. Like this is super strange. I need to do more testing, but my Monti Caps look great, birdsnests, and Stylo.Along with my Xenia, and my other LPS. So this is super strange, it’s not like it’s a lack of nutrients or whatever.
