black spots on leather tree coral..

[siptang]

once sprouting and wavy leather tree has withered up for last week. It does this every once in a while so I didn't really pay attention to it but last night as I was maintaining the tank, I realized that there were black dots on the darn thing... If I recall, those things are bad. Should I carve it out and also does it only effect leather? or does it effect other lps and sps corals?

 

[meowzer]

Do you have a picture?

 

[siptang]

coming tonight when I go home.

 

[meowzer]

Are they new polyps??

 

[siptang]

nope no new polyps..
black marks actually all over the darn thing.. I just scraped it off the rock with the razor blade and threw it away... I was googling it yesterday and I saw that it was some kind of coral disease found on leather types of coral and I didn't want it to spread to my other leathers on that rock...

 

[meowzer]

WOW....I would have dipped it in Lugols...LOL....and tried to treat it......Don't you have a qt?

 

[siptang]

I do but I have whole lot of that coral and it was 1 in the morning and I accidently overflowed the garage with my ro and dealing with that, wife, fatigue, I just gave up and scraped it off completely instead of carving the infected part off... I wasn't aware that ypu can clean it off..

 

[florida joe]

Dark spot disease is believed by many to be seasonal; the spots can result in tissue loss. Corals have been known to recover with regrowth of tissue and skeleton

 

[siptang]

Ahhh freaking hell... now I just feel bad... well I do have a whole bunch of it but still... I could have fixed it, cured it and donated to someone new in the hobby. :/

 

[novahobbies]

Ya know, I think you were dealing with enough. Don't beat yourself up too much about it. Frag a bigger one, grow it out, and give that to some new guy. It'll balance your karma.

 

[siptang]

Thanks and will do so. I have already fragged up some of my over growing zoas and donated to those around me. Next time, I will try trimming my xenia. :/