green spot on staghorn
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Topic: green spot on staghorn
Posted By: laroc
Subject: green spot on staghorn
Date Posted: February 25 2014 at 1:20pm
Ok sorry no pictures but here is the situation. Get home last night and notice a bright green dot about a middle of the way up the trunk. A little bigger than a pin head. This morning the green dot I'm guessing exploded but now there is a open wound where the spot use to be and the tissue has receded a little bit. Any thoughts I know it is hard to really tell without a picture.
Thanks.
ca 460
alk 10.5
mg 1400
temp 74
no crabs only nerite snails, orchid pseudochromis
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Posted By: Bryce
Date Posted: February 25 2014 at 3:25pm
Could be a hammer coral head that came off, I find that my hammer coral sometimes have a head come off and float around the tank causing havoc...but if you do not have hammer, or frogspawn, or torch, I don't know what it could be.
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Posted By: laroc
Date Posted: February 25 2014 at 4:09pm
Thanks for the reply. I do have a branching hammer and a torch. As far as it causing havoc ( can it sting other coral if the head(s) break off) would it leave a creator in the staghorn. I might have to buy a camera.
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Posted By: Bryce
Date Posted: February 25 2014 at 4:19pm
Without a pic its hard to tell but yes they can sting and cause dead spots where they landed and stuck.
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Posted By: laroc
Date Posted: February 26 2014 at 4:08pm
Just want to say thanks again. After evaluating the situation I think your dead on. Brushed ( lightly) the remaining junk off the trunk last night and sure enough looks like a sting mark.
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Posted By: phys
Date Posted: February 27 2014 at 1:29am
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just try to get the area clear by blasting it with a little water.. if you let it sit, it may end up spreading more.. Some of my acros get stung and if i dont do this, it keeps going.
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