[dmachog]

Purchased plate coral, montipora. In tank for a month and fluorishing. Saturday noticed a brown/dead spot on edge,about 1/4 inches in diameter. Sunday it was an inch in diameter, and by Tuesday progressed to half the plate, and finally today the entire plate is dead. No other problems in tank, fish fine, mushroom, cabbage, and finger corals fine......bacterial infection? Can it be treated in future-or could I have avoided it? Thanks.

[RyanG]

List your tank parameters, what type of lighting are you using and flow

[Kevin W]

i had the same prob my long tentical plate coral was huge after i put it in my tank doing really really good and over night it stopped coming out and started to die it went so fast i couldnt save it i had my water tested and everything was fine i have no idea why it happened but it did and it sucks now i bleached the plate and its on my end table as an ornament
i know a couple students in marine bio they said...??i might have had to much nutrients at first that it swelled real big and used up alot of the food in the water and when the food depleated it went into shock and died??? but i have know idea what happened

[dmachog]

Good idea; I will bleach mine and put it on my bookshelf. Just ticks me off.
thanks.

[dmachog]

Originally Posted by reefbuilders

List your tank parameters, what type of lighting are you using and flow

46 bow, corallife 120 watts, water checked out fine-I and my aquarium shop tested it.

Good flow from prism skimmer and Tetratech 300 filter, airstone. temp constant 78.