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Originally Posted by
GeoJ http:///t/389507/montipora-didgitata-help#post_3444206
Holmes don't put the magnifying glass away...
You only have a hypothesis, until you see a nudi or move the coral and have it recover you know nothing. We would not want to fool are selves or others we talk to. You should follow this through and let everyone know how it works out...
+1. I couldnt agree w/ GeoJ more. Nudi's and redbugs are nothing to mess with. Just a few of these things can decimate systems and cause long-term re-build woes for any hobbyist that naively turns their back on them. I would take an ich outbreak over these buggers any day.
GeoJ: looking at the picture, it appears that the tissue death started at one end and evenly worked its way up the stalks. If this were nudi's, wouldn't there be lines throughout the frag, because the nudi's don't work systematically from bottom to top? Wouldn't they just plow lines through the flesh? When I thought that my monti death was secondary to nudi's, this was one of the indicators that it wasnt. Here's a pic of a monti cap that i experienced this with. On the other side of the cap the tissue death began towards the middle of an unshaded layer and worked its way out.
this was taken on 3/15/2011
I spent a lot of time looking for unwanted hitchhikers but because I was so convinced that that was the problem that I didn't consider anything else and nearly lost the entire colony. I ended up snapping off all the viable parts and glued them to a rock and changed the positioning of the coral.
Here it is on 7/21/2011
And here it is as of 5 minutes ago.
This digi used to be three times the size it is here. Tissue death started at the base and I kept an eye out for hitch hikers (need to learn to QT
) I accidentally broke branches off a few times while cleaning the glass and let the pieces sit in the sandbed b/c I was too lazy to get them. I epoxied them to this rock and the coral looks better than ever. The color is more rich and overall the coral just looks healthier.
