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coling
14-08-06, 16:44
Remember my 2 coloured Monti
http://freespace.virgin.net/colin.grainger/coral1.jpg
It has been choked by cyno/diatoms/algae and reduced to this
http://freespace.virgin.net/colin.grainger/monti.jpg
As you can see it has grown loads but when I came back from hols and cleaned it with turkey baster this was what was below. The bottom half was a different colour to top anyway. Is it doomed?
The tips are white as if they are still growing.
Paul
14-08-06, 16:45
frag it imo
Tristan
14-08-06, 16:48
I would keep an eye on it, if you see more die back frag it, but snap it of on the living bit.
wayne g
14-08-06, 16:48
i still find that piccy weird?
i remember when you first posted it and we thought it was half monti digitata and hals acropora milipora?
i wonder if the one coral attacked the other in the end?
:confused:
Tristan
14-08-06, 16:50
It does look that way because it is all orange that has gone!

But i would have expected something like that to happen straight away and not eventually.
coling
14-08-06, 16:53
Yeah all the pink/orange has gone. But note the tips on the branches still white like they are still growing.
wayne g
14-08-06, 16:54
It does look that way because it is all orange that has gone!

But i would have expected something like that to happen straight away and not eventually.


my feelings entirely...thats why i say 'weird'?
:confused:
jacksok
14-08-06, 18:09
It looks as if the 'orange' might have been an encrusting monti growing over the lighter one.

The lighter one looks fine, as you say the tips look like its growing. My inclination would be to frag it and post a sample to Rainham... ;)
Reef bloke
14-08-06, 20:27
I might be mistaken but there seems to be black bands between the two digi's or indeed an encrusting over an established digi as mentioned..I reckon its due to a very subtle battle between the two personally.Strange how they got together like that in the first place though.
ickypimp
14-08-06, 21:32
It just looks lika an orange digi to me that has had a hard time of it...., bleached from the base IMO
coling
14-08-06, 23:29
what causes bleaching?
ickypimp
15-08-06, 00:14
instability in the environment, that could be temp swings, ph swings, alk, salinity, could have been stung ...
Gav Cornwall
15-08-06, 00:33
Seems to me that its all one coral just the colour is effected by the age of the growth.

If it was covered in cyano it would have been starved from light and this would have resulted in the bleaching.

It still looks to me that it still has some orange colouration at the base of the stems, surely if the base was an ecrusting montipora it would have spread across the base of the rock aswell which it doesn't seem to have done.

Personally i would frag it, that amount of damage is going to take a long time to grow back and digitate corals aren't keen on growing downwards.
coling
15-08-06, 08:25
Gav
Here's a pic from when I got it a year ago
http://freespace.virgin.net/colin.grainger/coralaugust.jpg
Dave_P
15-08-06, 09:08
IMO If it's bleached and not suffering from tissue loss and the bleaching was due to being covered. I would leave it a few weeks to see if it will colour back. I can't see you have much to loose but waiting a bit.

Obviously if during this time the bleaching increases, then frag it.

Dave
Matt G
15-08-06, 13:06
That piece of pulse / xenia next to it wouldn't be annoying it would it?