Overfead Dendro...mods can move if needed

[dlux4life]

Hi Guys-
I have had two dendro's in my reef keeping carrer. The first one that i had seemed to melt infront of my very eyes. I am scared as my second one, now 7 heads strong is starting to do the same thing.
Each time this happened, i checked my parameters and everything seems in line. After doing some research it appears that you can overfeed your dendro causing a bacterial infection with in the digestive cavity.
I remember feeding my first dendro a large krill that it could barely get into its stomach. Shortly after that, the tissue started to melt off. Soon thereafter the rest of the coloney died. This is starting to happen to my second coloney after feeding a whole large krill. I cannot find a way to correct this. Only now am i able to put two and two together.
Does anyone have any input around saving my dendro coloney. I am ok with the fact i may lose my main head, but do not want to lose the 7 babies.
Any reccomendations on medicines / dips? Do I cut a large portion off?

 

[gill again68]

How often are you feeding these quantities? I have Duncans but would think that overfeeding, if thats the issue, would hurt both? Dont have an answer for you but was wondering about the frequency that you feed.

 

[dlux4life]

Yea, i very rarely feed an entire large krill to the polyp. I used to feed a homemade food mix of lots fish, shrimp, clams, mussle seaweed and vitamins.
With the first colony i had, I ran out of this food mix and fead an entire krill to the polyp. Shortly thereafter it died.
With the second colony, the exact same thing happened. Ran out of food, fead a large krill and melting two days later.

 

[dlux4life]

So i have started doing a nightly dip in API Melafix to try and combat the bacterial infection. The coral does not seem to be losing tissue as fast after the last two nights of dipping. I will try to post a pic later tonight.

 

[btldreef]

If the dip doesn't work, you may need to frag the head that is dying to save the rest. I recently had a sun coral start to do this and fragging the main head and the two directly adjacent to it saved the rest of the colony.