Bubble Coral Looks Burnt

[aquacat]

I have had this bubble coral for 2 months and it looked great. It fell over the other day and the left side of it now doesn't open up. Is this normal and do you think eventually the coral will be in full bllom again? It's my centerpiece and it doesn't look great right now.

 

[rujelus22]

is the bone on the left exposed or is it just really really closed

 

[aquacat]

It looks exposed I think. Does this picture help?

 

[rujelus22]

It's dying

 

[alyssia]

My bubble fell on my heater about 4 months ago, and it looked fine for awhile. About two months later it started to look exactly like yours (don't know if it was related to the fall or not). It did start to recover recently, the bubbles in the bare area are coming back.

 

[rujelus22]

yeah they can come back but you need to find what made it mad or what caused the proplem and fix it

 

[aquacat]

I think it landed on a frogspawn. Would that cause this problem?

 

[alyssia]

I guess if the frogspawn stung it....that is a VERY nice looking tank, BTW!

 

[jacknjill]

yep, the frogspawn would do that. It will eventually grow back in that area of the skeleton

 

[trikonreef]

I had a collector crab in my reef and he trashed mine badly. It looked a litle like yours but worse. I just let it recover on its own and before I knew it (about 2 months) I had dozens of little starts all over the skelleton. I've just recently started remove the little individuals and now I have more of these than I know what to do with. :notsure:

 

[alyssia]

Originally Posted by trikonreef
I had a collector crab in my reef and he trashed mine badly. It looked a litle like yours but worse. I just let it recover on its own and before I knew it (about 2 months) I had dozens of little starts all over the skelleton. I've just recently started remove the little individuals and now I have more of these than I know what to do with. :notsure:

What do you mean by remove the individuals?

 

[alyssia]

bump

 

[alyssia]

bump again

 

[biker364]

Is that a sun coral next to your bubble? Looks like it. If so you need to move it to a very shaded spot, or a cave would be ideal.

 

[alyssia]

I learned on here that sun corals needing to be in the shade is a myth.

 

[trikonreef]

like little starts on the skeleton. little clusters of bubbles. I guess you could call 'em frags. Anyway they're small, smaller than a dime to the size of a quarter.