HELP PLEASE I have some kind of worm or Parisite on all my lps

kefer · #1 07/02/2007, 12:33 AM

I dont have a picture but it looks like a white large speck a few died and kinda look like spaghetti it spread in one night to all my brain corals anyone have any idea what it is

MarineGirl411 · #2 07/02/2007, 03:26 AM

Did you post in the LPS forum? I would. I can't tell by your description what it looks like. =/

Scuba_Steve · #3 07/02/2007, 07:28 AM

Are you sure it isnt their sweeper tentacles?

Frick-n-Frags · #4 07/02/2007, 10:00 AM

or mesenterial filaments being put out by an extremely upset coral

drummereef · #5 07/02/2007, 10:10 AM

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Originally posted by Frick-n-Frags
or mesenterial filaments being put out by an extremely upset coral

That would be my thought. Sounds like it was stressed and is expelling its guts.

kefer · #6 07/02/2007, 12:08 PM

thanks for the feed back any way to get rid of it

seapug · #7 07/02/2007, 12:22 PM

You have 15 tanks and sell corals but you've never seen them extrude mesentaries?

Let me guess-- your LPS were stressed or adjusting and extruded some mesentaries (usually no big deal), you thought it was a parasite worm and started picking them off, which injured the coral and made them extrude more, which made you in turn panicked and literally picked the corals to death. The rotting dead corals have stressed all the other corals and made them extrude mesentaries which you have interpreted as an "infestation."

Please tell me I'm wrong.

BMW///M3 · #8 07/02/2007, 12:53 PM

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Originally posted by seapug
You have 15 tanks and sell corals but you've never seen them extrude mesentaries?

Let me guess-- your LPS were stressed or adjusting and extruded some mesentaries (usually no big deal), you thought it was a parasite worm and started picking them off, which injured the coral and made them extrude more, which made you in turn panicked and literally picked the corals to death. The rotting dead corals have stressed all the other corals and made them extrude mesentaries which you have interpreted as an "infestation."

Please tell me I'm wrong.

Yeah, remind me not to buy coral from you. If you sell coral you should know a little more about it and the diseases.

RobSW1 · #9 07/02/2007, 01:25 PM

you guys are jumping to conclusions and you dont even know what is going on. Everyone is just jumping on the band waggon.........the truth is without a DETAILED picture and some water parameters, stocking, and types of corals, we cannot really understand whats going on

seapug · #10 07/02/2007, 01:47 PM

I made the best guess I could based on the info presented....and stated that I hoped I was wrong!

kefer · #11 07/02/2007, 01:57 PM

the day before MY 1000 watt halide broke and the glass tube fell off and the light stade on. which in turn lowered my alkalinity I will
be sending pictures later today. hay if it is not a parisite my is it on the tip of a tooth coral

kefer · #12 07/02/2007, 04:51 PM

Here are detailed pics of the white plague on his coral:

and

GraviT · #13 07/02/2007, 04:54 PM

If your MH bulb broke, your tank inhabitants suffered a period of very excessive UV levels. What you're seeing may very well be cooked/burned flesh.

kefer · #14 07/02/2007, 05:26 PM

this was in a totally different tank out of the fifteen tanks whose lights were out. That was over the 300 gallon tidepool.

RobSW1 · #15 07/02/2007, 06:22 PM

that is like nothing i have ever seen before.......looks like strange tissue growth, but then that doesnt make sense as the tissue around the edges are dying.

I would dip into Tropic marin Pro coral Cure.

HTH
Maybe someone has had experiance with this.

kefer · #16 07/02/2007, 07:05 PM

ya I have been doing this for 4 years never seen anthing like it it looks like some kinda worm but I raised alkalinity and it seems to be slowely disapering it atacked aprox 45 lps corals through out my 1000 gallon prop system. I tried dipping them and that did absalutly nothing.

kefer · #17 07/03/2007, 01:03 AM

I think it was all do to stress and water conditions

kefer · #18 07/03/2007, 01:10 AM

OH by the way sea pug i didnt panic and try to pick them off thanks for the info, I think you were right,about Mesentrial filaments

Hormigaquatica · #19 07/03/2007, 03:13 AM

Yeah, those are just mesenterial filaments. There is something seriously stressing those corals out. It may have to do with the light, might not. You need to do a thorough check of all your chemistry parameters, get your lights back in order, and keep a close eye on things. They arent happy, but there is a chance the lobo will come back around- I think your scolymia/cynarina is done for though

btw- dont dip them anymore! theyre already seriously stressed out; dipping will just make that worse and speed up the recession process

Peter Eichler · #20 07/03/2007, 04:28 AM

I think it's safe to say the Scolymia was going down hill long before the mesenterial filaments became so prevalent.

elegance coral · #21 07/03/2007, 05:55 AM

Corals only do this under severe stress. If Kefer has been dealing with these corals for 4 years and has never seen this reaction, wouldn't this be the type of place you would want to buy your coral from? The dealer that says, "Ya I see this all the time." would be the dealer I wouldn't want to do business with.

kefer · #22 07/03/2007, 07:25 PM

Thann you elegance for the complement I have 600 diferent pieces of coral and Inverts kefer

Scuba_Steve · #23 07/03/2007, 11:06 PM

I somewhat agree with elegance, with the somewhat only applying if you have shut down shop completely on all corals in this tank till you get things under control.