blasto help - now with freaky pics

Link this thread for background
http://www.3reef.com/forums/id/killing-my-blasto-71678.html


So I have a little growth of blasto alien stuff. It's now dangling from the colony. This dangling piece has blasto growing on it as well.

All that's connecting it now to the main colony is one blasto head. It's getting extremely stretched out and it is now (seemingly) making the other heads look weird and shriveled...

Thinking of just cutting this piece and letting that one head die (or maybe recover) and putting the little bulbous growth somewhere else to spread the colony.

Any ideas? I'll get a pic later when wife is home with good camera. You need the detail of that camera to really see what I'm talking about.

 

it looks wrinkled and you need to get the elasticity back in your coral. try this.


On a serious note, I would just cut it and hope the head heals. not worth risking your entire colony.

 

I am going to cut it today. Here are some pics to help explain.





And with notes.



A. This head is all that is holding this on. You can see how stretched it is. The rest of the colony looks stressed. I assume this is why.

B. This is the dangling thing. I can see this growth all over the colony, but not dangling like this.

C. There's another head on the dangling thing. I imagine once I cut it, I'll put it somewhere else and let these heads spread too. Letting the two colonies eventually meet... At least that's the idea.

 

You got foreign parasite that is coming from Australia. They attack mostly LPS corals. The only way to get rid of it is dose interceptor for dog heart worms.

 

R&R please expand

 

It's a crustacean parasite that comes on australian corals. It is like red bugs. They attack mostly LPS corals, most of the time coming in on chalice and lobos. I have seen them eat mushrooms and ricordea as well. Only way to get rid of them is dose the tank with interceptor and QT any coral you get from Australia before putting in DT. The large interceptor pill which will treat 380g tank. It will kill all your pod population when dosed in tank and will kill some other crustacean if your dose is to strong. When it attacks a coral, the coral will shrink up and then look as if was melting away and tissue separate from the skeleton. You will have a white line around the part that is receding. It will attack any LPS you have even if it wasn't a Australian coral. You have to crush the pill to make a powder then mix with R/O water and add to tank. Make sure you turn off your skimmer and any reactors you have running and leave off aleast 24 hours. Then you can run your skimmer. After about a week you can run carbon and do some small water changes every other day for a week. I usually use a double dose of interceptor. The parasites are really tiny and black or white color, if you have a microscope you can see them, and some with a magnifying glass.

 

holee crud

I've had this coral for oh i dunno, almost 2 years maybe. It's the only coral that exhibits this condition in my LPS dominant tank.

I will research this further, thanks! That is a whole new avenue for me to look into.