scopus tang
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A friend bought me an very nice tri-colored open brain as a thank you for fixing a log bed he purchased. This thing was totally awesome! I left it in his tank for 2 weeks after he got it, to make sure it had stabalized after the initial shipping. It was open and glowing after two weeks ~ puffing up to about twice its original size. Brought it home, drip acclimated it very slowly for an hour, before placing it in my tank. All tank parameters (mine vs. his) were dead on with the exception of salinity (his is several points lower than mine 1.023 vs. 1.026). Two days later, it was dead
. Tissue sloughing.
Only thing several of us here could come up with was chemical warfare, but the only other corals in my tank are mushrooms, purple gongorian, zoas, palys, two plating montiporas, Xenia, and a colt coral. I added several frags at the same time; a clove polyp, gonipora (yah I know, but I couldn't resist ~ the thing has doubled in size since he got it in), a mushroom leather coral, and three zoa colonies (all very small, and all from the same tank), and all survived with no issues. Can't find anything in any of the texts that indicates any type of chemical war should have occurred between these corals.
Anyone have any thoughts on what I might have done wrong? or why it died? I really want a very nice open brain in this tank, but now I'm afraid to try another one, cause I don't want to kill it. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome, cause I really want to find an answer here. Thanks in advance for your input.
Only thing several of us here could come up with was chemical warfare, but the only other corals in my tank are mushrooms, purple gongorian, zoas, palys, two plating montiporas, Xenia, and a colt coral. I added several frags at the same time; a clove polyp, gonipora (yah I know, but I couldn't resist ~ the thing has doubled in size since he got it in), a mushroom leather coral, and three zoa colonies (all very small, and all from the same tank), and all survived with no issues. Can't find anything in any of the texts that indicates any type of chemical war should have occurred between these corals.
Anyone have any thoughts on what I might have done wrong? or why it died? I really want a very nice open brain in this tank, but now I'm afraid to try another one, cause I don't want to kill it. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome, cause I really want to find an answer here. Thanks in advance for your input.
