[mothergoose]

Hey Ed,
shopping was good. Had to go to toy store to pick up a darth vadare light sabar for seven year old. You know it is kinda fun being santa. Not too many long lines when we went. I was disappointed in the selection that was availiable at the fish store though I did still ended up spending 80.00. Purchased a pair of clowns today (My fourth set, cant seem to keep them alive) and some food. The bubble ate some mysis again !!!!!!! I'm hoping it keeps feeding this is definatally a positive sign. I was able to talk to the gentleman that help through Premium Aquatics on line chat, he was happy the bubble was doing better. Did more testing this evening and things are looking up. Calcium 400
KH 13
PH 8.3 at least
everything else 0
Thanks for your support and concern.
Dont forget to vote for me in Nov. tank of the month contest.
See you on other post.
Nina

[Fishhead Junkie]

dude, that bubble coral is a hop, skip, and a jump from the graveyard. there is no way it will survive as far gone as it is in the pics you posted. once a bubble coral starts deteriorate like that, in the end..you'll have a nice piece of rock with some thin discs on it for stuff to climb on, thats it. sorry.

steve

[mothergoose]

Steve,
Thanks for the straight forward answer I'm afraid you my be right. It has its days when it looks promising but I'm with you I am going to end up with a 40 dollar unique rock for the tank.
Nina

[Fishhead Junkie]

so, how is your bubble doing? i hope that it made it but i am guessing the progress report wont be great. i had a small piece myself a few months back..it kept getting knocked over and one day it got knocked over, laid upside down on the ground for too long before i noticed and it just never recovered. now that you mention it...i gotta find that piece of FANCY rock...i think i tossed it in the back of the tank and forgot about it. would make a nice base to glue a piece of coral ot it, get some zoos growing all over it.

steve

[mothergoose]

it is still hanging in there. cant say that there has been much change in the appearance since last pics. It still eats on a regular basis so I'm hopeful it will do something but it is taking its own sweet time. that would look cool with zoos on it. I will have to keep that in mind if mine ever decides to go the dead route.

[chuck rayburn]

ive been following this thread and was wondering how is the bubble doing?

[mothergoose]

Chuck,
This is what it looks like when it is waking up. Throughout the day the bubbles come and go. Sometimes I am really optimistic because it looks good other times I want to cry because it looks so pathetic. I think I need to take it out and rise it off because it has more red gunk on it. This makes me very nervous I will need to do some more reading on how to do this. Do you have any other ideas on how to help the little guy?
Thanks, Nina

[chuck rayburn]

i have had this esperience with bubble coral too.

[mothergoose]

Yours still alive? if so how and what did you do to help it?

[emccullough1]

Nina: I try to keep up with you here but missed a few days. could you rig a hose to one of your power-head or pump and blow the red stuff off. I don't think stressing it out by taking it out of the water would be a good idea. Maybe gust move it to a spot with stronger flow for a day. I had one rock with 11 xenia's on it get real serest out and I thought I was going to loose them. I move them to a spot with stronger flow and they have came back. But on the other hand my trumpet coral has really started to look good now that I moved it to a slower flow area. I guess I should read up more on bubble corals before I make any recommendations.

[emccullough1]

Nina: have you seen any change for the better yet. ( Fingers Crossed ) On my end.

[mothergoose]

No, He looks worse than it did. Going to do another Iodine dip today and hope foe the best.

[mothergoose]

Well I do believe it is finally over for the bubble. It only has hard scales on it now and there are absolutally no bubbles any more.
Thanks for all your help.

[emccullough1]

I did not want to hear that.

[mothergoose]

Sorry ed I'm sure I will have better luck next time. Thanks again for your help