Dying or Dead

[rk4435]

Is this dying or dead? We bought it at the arc event at Gwinnett Center a few months ago. It seems to have white stuff coming out and cuc feasting on it.

My inclination is to remove it from the tank.
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[bycjoe]

Is that a Wellso or Scoly? If so it looks like it's pretty much kicked the bucket.

 

[rk4435]

Scoly sounds right.

 

[bycjoe]

I've never owned a Scoly but my Wellso will shrink down occasionally, although never that far. If the Cuc is going after it, especially shrimp I'd say it's toast, is there any tissue left at all? It's kind of hard to tell from the picture

 

[jfritts91]

It's dying, unfortunately. The Cuc and Shrimp combo isn't helping anything, lol. It's look more like a form of brain than a scoly to me

 

[rk4435]

I went ahead and took it out. It was in my 36 gallon tank and did not look well so I put it in the 29 bio cube last week because the coral in it seems to look better. First loss in a while, probably due to my own ignorance somehow.

 

[jdavid]

dang, I would have dipped it.

 

[jeffmuse]

rk4435;890290 wrote: I went ahead and took it out. It was in my 36 gallon tank and did not look well so I put it in the 29 bio cube last week because the coral in it seems to look better. First loss in a while, probably due to my own ignorance somehow.

That sticks, I am sorry it died.

 

[saltbubbles]

That sucks but if it still had a mouth I would have tried protecting it from flow and other animals and spot feeding for a few days. Sorry for your loss

 

[heathlindner25]

from the picture that sucker is toast.

 

[ksicard]

looks like a lobo, its a LPS of the brain family. But yeah that's pretty much toast, sorry to be bearer of bad news.

 

[rk4435]

I've been too busy trying to get the 90 gallon up and running, obviously.

 

[mc524]

That looked like a Peppermint shrimp. Mine pestered the crap out of my corals. They took care of the few Aptasia that I had. They now live in the sump after they butchered an Orange Plate.
So he might have been the culprit of that Lobo dying off.

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[dabo]

i also had a peppermint shrimp eat some yumas you have to watch those guys.

 

[rk4435]

Peppermint shrimp could have been the problem in the other tank. I had a whole gang of them to take care of aptasia, they may have aggravated the lobo. The two shrimp that are in the tank in the picture did not bother it until it was apparently dead.