Anthelia lost?

[craigb315]

I have had a small colony of Anthelia for about 2 months now. It appears that the colony os beginning to crash. I have seen other posts with simlar problems (have discovered this can be quite common) ie. change in color from a pale pink to an ash white, hands of the colony have fallen off and the extension of the hands has dramatically decreased. Is there any chance that Anthelia with these symptoms have been known to make a comeback? Or should I remove it from my tank? Can the hands that have fallen off start new colonies?


Here are my conditions:

40 gallon, 2 x 65 watt PCs
50 lbs of live rock, DSB, 15 gallon sump
temp 79
salinity 1.023
Ca - 400
dKH - 9.9
pH - 8.35
NH3 - 0
NO3 - 0
NO2 - 0


I currently have the following corals:

toadstool leather
finger leather
branched hammer
yellow polyps
hairy mushroom
red mushrooms
green zoo's

[EricHugo]

It ispossibly that tentacles can form new colonies, though unlikely. It is more probably that some residual tissue remains and recolonization occurs from the "stumps". I probably wouldn't remove it unless the colony is disproportionatley large compared to the system volume and that carbon and/or skimming were not employed.