Hello everyone. I left for a few days and came home to see my Green Goniopora Coral covered in a mucos which I blew of with a feeding stick quite easily but next morning it came back. Any clues as to what it might be?
The mucos is white and completely encompasses the coral. I don't believe that their is any way that it would have gotten hurt since the coral is far from anything within it path and has been fully extended for weeks now. I also give daily target feeding of Cyclopeeze. I really don't know what else is wrong. My other goniopora are acting fine as normal.
fish_ what fish do u have in the tank? if u have a clown fish they can transmit through contact damaging mucus from an anem. borneman has done a study on this at one time i believe!
also where is the specimen place in the tank. common placement is towards the bottom if im not mistaken!
the problem also can be uptake of the coral needs, sometimes they are tempermental, even with correct lighting & proper feeding the nitrogen & carbon needs are for what ever reason....> not met individualy though by the specimin & they release what ever photosynthetically fixed carbon they have left within their tissue as mucus
or it could just be a factor of growth or over stimulated water flow!
ZeroKoolNYC, is the mucous layer still coming back? The only thing I can think of that would cause a mucous layer to form over the entire coral while you were away is a bacterial bloom; or something else being released into the water that would irritate the goni. Food can sometimes cause a mucous layer, but usually not with cyclopeeze.
Either way, a couple of water changes (using RO water) should help. Running some fresh carbon should help too.
Just an extra note.....
If the mucous becomes localized in a small area on the coral body, then check to make sure food, sand, or detritus isn't settling there. If the tissue covering the body of the coral is inflating properly, then the settling of "junk" on the tissue shouldn't be an issue. The coral will move it off.
The symptoms resemble more of a reaction to an irritation in the water as opposed to an infection though.
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