My first dead coral

vucious

vucious

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Sigh, so after only a few months in the hobby, I am experiencing my first dying/dead coral. My wife picked out the sun coral a few weeks back and I've been feeding it every day using a dome or putting it in a separate container. It was opening and eating okay. However, in the past couple days, I see that one sub-colony is dying (bottom of pic). The other sub-colony (top of pic) seems to be okay. Both colonies are on the same rock. My question is can I just let the dying colony die or do I need to take it out of the tank? Will this cause some water quality issue like a dead fish?

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Ive only seen few people keep those alive so dont feel bad. Dieing coral does cause some isses but think its only if huge die off think u be ok with one dieing or give it away to somebody maybe they can save it.im sure if im wrong someone will chime in
 
Thanks, I'm kind of sad. Sigh.

madjoe said:
Ive only seen few people keep those alive so dont feel bad. Dieing coral does cause some isses but think its only if huge die off think u be ok with one dieing or give it away to somebody maybe they can save it.im sure if im wrong someone will chime in
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I'd just keep it in a shaded area, it can just as fast bounce back as fast as it started to die.
 
When I go scuba diving, I only see them under rocks & growing on the very shaded parts of shipwrecks. Keep feeding it, it should come back. Are you adding any vitamins to the food?
 
Flow is also a key part to their health in my exerience. They've done best in areas that get medium flow that'll bring them detritus on the current such as the overflow box. Offspring actually settled and are growing in my overflow. The parent colonies are in the a laminar flow area by the base rock near a cave and corner of the tank. This is a bottleneck for the water keeping the flow steady and carries the detritus, it’s a BB tank. They also do best in shaded areas, I've placed them under larger overhangs so they get no direct light.

The backside of one of my parent colonies looks like yours and have not noticed any negative affect in the tank. It’s the side of the colony that’s up against the rock and gets low flow. The colony is feeding on its own tissue to survive and is not likely to harm anything else in the tank.

Other than moving it to a better flow lower light area, just keep feeding it. Even if only one polyp survives the colony will rebuild in time. There is no need to use vitamins, gut loaded brine is all I use and they're happy enough to reproduce.
 
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