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Coupe_Girl
10-06-07, 21:11
I noticed damage to the tentacles of my torch coral. I have a photo of the damage and the location in my tank.

Help pls

Thanks - CG

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j128/bradden1/2007_06100013Medium.jpg


http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j128/bradden1/2007_06100017Medium.jpg
kevo66
10-06-07, 22:10
Ooh nasty, I think the Branching Hammer has give it a good old sting, seperate them ASAP, they shouldn't have been so close really :(

If its frag-able, frag off the dead bit, Im sure it is, but not 100%
Fungia
10-06-07, 22:15
Wouldnt the torch have stung the hammer if anything?


Jeff.
kevo66
10-06-07, 22:16
Wouldnt the torch have stung the hammer if anything?


Jeff.


whys that mate??
Fungia
10-06-07, 22:17
Maybe I'm wrong but I always thought that torches were the most powerful of the euphyllias, is this not the case? :o


Jeff.
kevo66
10-06-07, 22:26
Maybe I'm wrong but I always thought that torches were the most powerful of the euphyllias, is this not the case? :o


Jeff.

TBH mate I cdouldnt tell you, but thats certainly how it looks from the positioning, and the hammer is far bigger too :eek:
Fungia
10-06-07, 22:35
Yeah I think your probably right.


Jeff.
simon garratt
10-06-07, 23:34
Looks more like a Frogspawn rather than a hammer imo. but as others have said, chances are the other coral has damaged the Torch..

fwiw you can mix Hammers and frogspwans together but not Torch.

My best advice would be to move the injured coral into a different location after giving it a fairly vigorous shake in a bucket of tank water (chuck away afterwards and dont add back to the tank) to get rid of any loose or severly damaged tissue. keep it in a moderate flow to stop it stagnating and with any luck it may recover. If you do loose one of the heads or you get a brown jelly infection setting in. simply break off the good heads where they branch off from the main colony and ditch the infected section.

Regards

Si.
Nikolai
11-06-07, 00:08
That doesent look too good, if it gets worse you have to frag it and make sure that you dont let any of the "rotting tissue" float in the tank, from my limited experiance if its brown jelly it can spreaad to all your other euphylia's - i had a similar thing earlier this year and lets just say i dident move fast enough....