speckled trout
10/11/2007, 12:46 PM
I made a post about a month ago about my declining montiporas, digis, plating and whorling varieties.
None of my other corals are declining and this has been ongoing for 4 months now.
I have the following :
1. several acros
2. pocilliporas
3. 2 varieties of Birdnest
4. various zoo colonies
5. a couple of frogspawn colonies
6. candy cane
7. numberous varieties of mushrooms/ricordias
8. xenia
9. a couple of varieties of star polyps
10. purple plating monti - showed a slight tip bleaching but seems to have stopped getting worse a couple of weeks ago
11. orange plating monti - has slowly been losing tissue for over a month
12. various species of green plating monti - these have shown various degrees of bleaching, from completely(death) to a little or none
13. orange whorling monti - completely dead after the first month of problems
14. various green/orange/purple digis - the purple was the first to bleach and die. It took only a couple of weeks for this to occur. The orange digis bleached after a month or so, and the green tried to hold on. One of them still has about a cm of bleached polyps on one tip. This tiny section of living tissue has been holding on for around 4 months now.
15. A pink digi - it started bleaching almost immediately upon introduction into the tank. It was a large colony and only 2 tiny tips remain alive and still pink in coloration. They've been holding on for nearly 4 months.
I had a nudibranch infestation about a year ago. I haven't noticed a single one after a lengthy battle and the introduction of a 6 line wrasse. I have inspected them at length and even at night and have never seen another one.
My question is this, what pathogen/parasite is so host specific that it only attacks montiporas? Surely, someone has had this happen to them before.
None of my other corals are declining and this has been ongoing for 4 months now.
I have the following :
1. several acros
2. pocilliporas
3. 2 varieties of Birdnest
4. various zoo colonies
5. a couple of frogspawn colonies
6. candy cane
7. numberous varieties of mushrooms/ricordias
8. xenia
9. a couple of varieties of star polyps
10. purple plating monti - showed a slight tip bleaching but seems to have stopped getting worse a couple of weeks ago
11. orange plating monti - has slowly been losing tissue for over a month
12. various species of green plating monti - these have shown various degrees of bleaching, from completely(death) to a little or none
13. orange whorling monti - completely dead after the first month of problems
14. various green/orange/purple digis - the purple was the first to bleach and die. It took only a couple of weeks for this to occur. The orange digis bleached after a month or so, and the green tried to hold on. One of them still has about a cm of bleached polyps on one tip. This tiny section of living tissue has been holding on for around 4 months now.
15. A pink digi - it started bleaching almost immediately upon introduction into the tank. It was a large colony and only 2 tiny tips remain alive and still pink in coloration. They've been holding on for nearly 4 months.
I had a nudibranch infestation about a year ago. I haven't noticed a single one after a lengthy battle and the introduction of a 6 line wrasse. I have inspected them at length and even at night and have never seen another one.
My question is this, what pathogen/parasite is so host specific that it only attacks montiporas? Surely, someone has had this happen to them before.