Xj reefing Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 This afternoon I got home and I notice that one of my lobos had fallen on my acan. The acan looks really bad but the lobo looks fine. Will the acan Recover or is it cactus? Quote Link to comment
Xj reefing Posted February 1, 2021 Author Share Posted February 1, 2021 @tired @ajmckay Quote Link to comment
king aiptasia Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 probably, but give it a chance Quote Link to comment
ajmckay Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 It's hard to say. I think that as long as it was doing well before and not declining then it may stand a chance. It looks like there is still some tissue left so try to give it optimal conditions. In the first pic do you see those white squiggly lines? Those are Mesenterial Filaments. Those are digestive tissues so basically the lobo was in the process of digesting the acan. 1 Quote Link to comment
king aiptasia Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 20 minutes ago, ajmckay said: It's hard to say. I think that as long as it was doing well before and not declining then it may stand a chance. It looks like there is still some tissue left so try to give it optimal conditions. In the first pic do you see those white squiggly lines? Those are Mesenterial Filaments. Those are digestive tissues so basically the lobo was in the process of digesting the acan. i assume these guys don't spit their guts when they are extremely stressed? I know from experience some anemones will spit their own filaments Quote Link to comment
Xj reefing Posted February 2, 2021 Author Share Posted February 2, 2021 I just looked at the acan it now only has one tiny spot of flesh ,eft I do not think it will make it 😞 as you can see from my profile pic is was pretty nice for a 10 dollar coral Quote Link to comment
ajmckay Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 58 minutes ago, king aiptasia said: i assume these guys don't spit their guts when they are extremely stressed? I know from experience some anemones will spit their own filaments I was thinking it was more an attack by the lobo since they came in contact. Here's a cool shot I took a long time ago of a green scoly digesting part of a kenya tree that got too close... Ultimately the kenya tree was fine - I just cut off the section that was damaged. Quote Link to comment
ajmckay Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 3 minutes ago, Xj reefing said: I just looked at the acan it now only has one tiny spot of flesh ,eft I do not think it will make it 😞 as you can see from my profile pic is was pretty nice for a 10 dollar coral bummer! yeah that looked super nice. I was hoping that once the aggressor was taken away it would pop back - but if the acan is continuing to lose tissue then maybe it was too severely damaged. Some corals can be pretty aggressive. It's a mechanism to keep other corals from encroaching. Quote Link to comment
king aiptasia Posted February 2, 2021 Share Posted February 2, 2021 12 hours ago, ajmckay said: I was thinking it was more an attack by the lobo since they came in contact. Here's a cool shot I took a long time ago of a green scoly digesting part of a kenya tree that got too close... Ultimately the kenya tree was fine - I just cut off the section that was damaged. I've seen stuff like this before in time lapse. i notice all corals tend to have the exact same looking filaments, you'd probably need to do PCR testing to see if op's corals filaments are its or the others or maybe a little of both 1 Quote Link to comment
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