One of my
Blastomussa started showing receding tissue and exposing skeleton today. This is the second
Blastomussa I've had issues with this year. Last time this happened... had a nice 5-6 head colony that looked great for a week with good polyp opening and colour, eating frozen brine shrimp, and then it just started to expose skeleton and its tissue fell off the skeleton. That one died. I thought I killed it by putting it too close to the light off the start. My next two specimens, I placed deeper in the tank. About 8 days ago, I consolidated my two smaller reefs and put everything into a larger tank. I thought my
Blastomussa had adjusted, but one of the pieces I overlooked and again placed too close to the top of the tank. Now it looks like this...
Finally, now doing some web searching. I just read that
Blastomussa are actually surprising tricky... having very latent reaction to stress, and typically thought to be due to being exposed to bright light too quickly.
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It's been 8 days since I moved my 2 tanks into one big reef, and it was showing good health, eating brine shrimp, and good colour. But 8 days later it's showing stress. Bugger. I've just moved it to the sand bed, might be too late. Good thing my other big colony is in a dimmer spot and I didn't get too ambitious moving it into the limelight.
Anyone else with similar experiences with
Blastomussa?