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Old 11/10/2007, 12:58 PM
Kip Kip is offline
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Salisbury, NC
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Unhappy The Time has Come

A lot of people know thru posts here, etc that I've been having acro troubles since Feb this year. My acros have been painfully, slowly wasting away 1 by 1. The latest coral to become ill was my purple monster. I acquired this frag at ~ 1/4 " and it had grown to be a little larger than a golf ball since feb '06.

Today I decided I'd had enough and the illness was spreading throughout the base of the colony so that I felt this was my last opportunity to save it. I pulled it and fragged a dozen pieces.

Here are some pics of the sick coral... you can see in the shots the receded areas as well as the clipped areas for the frags. Hopefully the frags will pull thru and grow. They've been placed in another system I have running at my office.

Now that this coral is out of the system, it will be interesting to see which acro that i have left will become sick. I've already lost my huge cali-tort... i am betting my decent sized oregon tort will be next.

Shots of the sick/hacked purple monster parent:

Underside view from where recession started


"Healthier side" from which frags were taken


Top View showing how the recession had spread throughout the base of the coral
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