|
FAQs about Faviid Coral Pathogenic Disease
FAQs on Faviid Disease:
Faviid
Disease 1, Faviid Disease
2, Faviid Disease 3,
Faviid Disease 4, Faviid Disease 5, Faviid Disease,
FAQs on Faviid Disease by Category:
Diagnosing,
Environmental (Pollution/Poisoning, Lighting...),
Nutritional, Social (Allelopathy),
Trauma,
Predatory/Pest, Treatments
Related Articles:
Coral Pests and Disease; pests, predators, diseases and conditions by Sara
Mavinkurve,
Faviid
Corals,
FAQs on Stony Coral Disease: Stony Coral Disease 1, Stony Coral Disease 2, Stony Coral Disease 3, Stony Coral Disease 4, Stony Coral Disease 5, Stony Coral Disease 6, Stony Coral Disease 7, Stony Coral Disease 8, Stony Coral Disease 9, Stony Coral Disease 10, Stony Coral Disease 11, Stony Coral Disease
12, Stony Coral Disease 13,
Stony Coral Disease 14,
Stony Coral Disease 15, Stony Coral
Disease ,
FAQs on Stony Coral Disease by Category: Diagnosing:
Environmental (Pollution/Poisoning, Lighting...),
Nutritional, Social (Allelopathy),
Trauma,
Pathogenic (Infectious, Parasitic, Viral)
Predatory/Pest,
Treatments
FAQs on Stony Coral Disease by Type: Brown Jelly Disease, RTN,
|
|
Possible Parasite on Favia Frag... acting sans reading...
3/11/10
Hi,
<Hello Ben>
Thank you firstly for all the brilliant sound advice I glean regularly
from your excellent site, almost always if I have a problem, somebody
else has had the same and asked for help.
Almost always.
I have a Favia frag I recently purchased, however it at first seemed to
be doing fine attached to a rock down on my live sand bed.
<Most Faviids don't "live" on the sand>
But, I noticed recently a spot of dyeing
<And dying?>
flesh with bare stonework showing through, this is getting gradually
larger over the past 2/3 days and has now spread to 2 spots. I have
noticed that as well as it's normal feeder tentacles, the Favia has
much longer darker tentacles coning from underneath the rim, where the
Favia stops and the old skeleton/rock starts. Is this normal, or is it
likely that some kind of parasite has burrowed in and is sending out
tentacles to feed, as well as feeding off my Favia possibly?
<Can't tell from here; but whatever it/this is it not likely
parasitic>
Do you think the two are linked?
<Might be>
I have tried to kinda clean out round the rim of the Favia with
tweezers
<I would not do this>
(but to be honest I don't know if I'm doing more harm) and I
have used epoxy resin to seal all the bare rockwork so only the actual
Favia is now showing,
<Nor this>
again, is this correct or is it likely the 'thing' will now
either feed solely from my Favia, or burrow through it?
<... what thing?>
I have moved it to a different base and I will keep an eye on it to see
if this creeping disappearing flesh continues, any advice you have
would be most welcome.
<Read here: http://wetwebmedia.com/faviidae.htm
the linked FAQs file for the family, above... You haven't given any
data re water quality, other tankmates, the system, foods/feeding...
Nor a photo illustrating what you're getting at. Time for you to
read>
Finally, again, great work on the site, I think most of my corals/fish
have benefited from your experience at some point.
Ben.
<Please use it. Bob Fenner>
HELP !! Candy Cane Coral and Parasites <Not> 4/29/05 I've
recently ran into a problem with a Candy Cane Coral Frag. It
has been in my tank for a few weeks now and one of the polyps was
damaged when I got it. The rest looked healthy and after a
few days in my tank began developing good color and inflated
polyps. The damaged polyp even seemed to be coming back.
However, about a week ago I noticed white "things" (I'll
refer to them as parasites from here on) all over the damaged polyp. I
kept my eye on them and they would come and go but always
overwhelming the polyp. <from the image these are clearly not
parasites but instead are mesenterial filaments from the coral being
stressed> So last night I decided to do a freshwater dip for 30
seconds, making sure to match pH and Temp. The parasites seemed to
shrivel up and I thought I got them. However within minutes they came
back in full force. <because of the stress of the
dip> As I watched them seemingly come out of nowhere I noticed them
begin to show up on the healthy polyps too. I watched this happen very
slowly, too slowly to see these things moving. As far as I could tell
they came from between the polyp and the skeleton and in some cases
looked as if they were pushing through the tissue in the middle of the
polyp. I documented the take over at the following site (thumbnails are
clickable to a larger version) The first pic in the series is before
the freshwater dip. http://users.arczip.com/manfrotto/images/Photohost/candy%20cane.html
And this link will take you to the photograph I took of it this morning
http://users.arczip.com/manfrotto/images/Photohost/candy_morning.jpg
I've asked around and can't figure out what these are and I
don't know what to do next. I appreciate you opinions
and comments very much on this. Sincerely Michael <do a keyword
search on our website and beyond for "mesenterial filaments".
Continued good water quality and feeding/water flow will recover this
coral in time. Have patience my friend.
Anthony>
HELP !! Candy Cane and Parasites II 8/31/04 Thanks Anthony
for getting back with me. I'm glad to hear that these
aren't parasites, I thought I was in for a
plague. I actually considered that these
may be a part of the coral but I always assumed, more or
less, that any defensive posture was expelled from the mouth
not from the sides of the coral < a common/understandable
assumption> and that they (the mesenterial filaments) would sway in
the water instead of clinging to the polyp. I've not
messed with the coral since that first FW dip and it has begun to come
back again, although I did lose the one already damaged
polyp. Not too worried about it though since I know I can
work on growing this frag without concern. Thank
you again for your help. By the way, feel free to
use any of those pics as helpful reference if you'd
like. Michael <thanks kindly, my friend. Anthony>
|
|
