PAGODA help.....

I have had a pagoda frag in my tank now for quite sometime. I noticed a couple of months back that my clowns rubbing on it and not allowing the polyps to fully extend at stressed it to the point where it's flesh was receeding and the skeleton was showing, so after a few weeks of a half a pop bottled placed over the frag the clowns moved onto a frog spawn.

My question is, the skeleton that was showing got covered in GHA, now the flesh isn't growing back over it and it looks healthier than ever just no new growth? it's been clown free for 2-3 mths now.

What should I do to get it to grow? the skeleton still has a little GHA on it, but I am getting that under control with 0tds ro/di water and some chaeto in a fuge.

Thanks,

Mike

 

Typically any algae will out compete tissue growth over dead skeleton. I would deal with the algae issue and expect growth or new skeletal structure from areas not already dead. Pagoda are not fast growers.

As always an image will be of assistance.

 

i guess i missed a big detail, the receeding started from the center of the bottoma and work it's way up and now the remaining flesh is completely surrounded by dead skeleton so i has nowhere to go.

 

Keep the algae off of the skeleton and feed the coral often. Keep you water quality up and it will over grow the exposed spots. My Pagoda was able to do that with the above regimen.

 

ok cool! I was told that it will not over grow the algae sections.

 

If there is still algae on the skeleton then I would be surprised if it grow back over. The skeleton has to be free of algae.

 

You will need to keep it algae free.