Sick Elegance

[Dave-T]

I've had this very large elegance that I got from a tank breakdown about a year and a half ago. Up to now, it's been happy and healty. It will very rarely shrink up a bit for reasons I've never understood, but that usually doesn't last for more than a few hours. I got home from a two week vacation on Sunday to see it like this, and it's been like this since. I don't know when it started, but my maintance guy had come by a week ago and said it looked fine. I'm concerned that I'm going to lose it. Nothing has changed chemistry wise in my tank, but one of my 4 gyres had stopped working at some point and I think that might have been the cause. I blew detritus off of it two days ago, and fixed the gyre, but it hasn't improved.

Any suggestions as to what is going on and how to save it? Here are two pictures, one of how it normally looks, and one of how it looks now.

Thanks!

 

[Uncle99]

It’s maybe just coincidence, but each time someone posts that they just got back from vacation, somethings looking not well.

During vacation, did everything you normally do happen on time?

When the gyre stopped, did temp increase?

Elegance very delicate coral IME, doesn’t take much flux.

 

[Dave-T]

Yes, everything was done normally. Like I said, I've had it for a year and a half, and it's been pretty bulletproof up until now. Everything else in the tank is doing fine. It's a 240 gallon mixed reef, and I have a lot of coral.

At this point, my focus is on how to revive it.

 

[Dave-T]

Here's a video:


You can see tufts of white junk on it. Signs of a bacterial infection? I'm considering a cipro dip, but have also heard that a freshwater dip can help - if this is the dreaded elegance coral syndrome.