HELP!!! LT Plate Is Receding

[The Grizz]

I have tried everything to feed him with no success. I think it is doomed as I have noticed today that my Coral Beauty & Blue Tang is starting to pick on the loose dying skin.

[Carmen]

By dipping it, I meant with either an iodine dip or Revive coral dip, something like that. Not sure if that is suggested for plates but I have used it for LPS successfully in the past to deal with brown jelly infection.
If the fish are picking it you can try to cover it with a strawberry basket until it can heal.
I have had the exact same thing happen with my brain (see my thread) and it has not been successful but worth a try I suppose.

[The Grizz]

Thanks Carmen, that would help if I had a strawberry basket,. Sorry to see your brain is suffering. Mine don't do much, wont open up at all. If it makes the night I am going to build something out of egg crate tomorrow.

Do you have a QT that would give you time to find or make something that will work. try a mixture of food put it in a blender and when you feed make sure it is right in the mouth area if it is going to eat it will draw it in.

Bill

[The Grizz]

I dont have my QT tank set up ATM but was thinking of moving it to my sump for the night. The light's are off now and the Beauty and B tang are now behind the rock snoozing.

[cordeiro]

got this off the net maybe it will help u out a bit i dont know to much about them.....

This is from an article by Julian Sprung;

Husbandry requirements for Heliofungia

Keeping Heliofungia in a reef aquarium is not difficult. One should of course avoid fishes that may pester or feed on the coral. Various angelfish and butterflyfishes fall in this category. The aquarium should have a sufficiently large flat horizontal area on the bottom where the coral can be placed, on gravel, sand, or rock. The coral thus will be correctly oriented with respect to the light, and will have sufficient room to move around. There should be no other corals, soft or hard, that the Heliofungia might contact as it moves around on the bottom. An exception is that there can be other Heliofungia. Heliofungia normally grows and thrives in captivity, but as I previously described, it is prone to infections. If the coral develops a brown jelly infection it is important to remove it from the aquarium. The fouling tissue from a dying Heliofungia may spread the infection to other corals, killing them in an effect like falling dominoes (Delbeek and Sprung, 1994).


Here's the link (http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...003/invert.htm) to the article.

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by cordeiro

got this off the net maybe it will help u out a bit i dont know to much about them.....

This is from an article by Julian Sprung;

Husbandry requirements for Heliofungia

Keeping Heliofungia in a reef aquarium is not difficult. One should of course avoid fishes that may pester or feed on the coral. Various angelfish and butterflyfishes fall in this category. The aquarium should have a sufficiently large flat horizontal area on the bottom where the coral can be placed, on gravel, sand, or rock. The coral thus will be correctly oriented with respect to the light, and will have sufficient room to move around. There should be no other corals, soft or hard, that the Heliofungia might contact as it moves around on the bottom. An exception is that there can be other Heliofungia. Heliofungia normally grows and thrives in captivity, but as I previously described, it is prone to infections. If the coral develops a brown jelly infection it is important to remove it from the aquarium. The fouling tissue from a dying Heliofungia may spread the infection to other corals, killing them in an effect like falling dominoes (Delbeek and Sprung, 1994).


Here's the link (http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issu...003/invert.htm) to the article.

Cool this is a good artical, I am doing everything that this artical suggest. It has no brown jelly crud on it any where. Now I am at a total loss.

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by Carmen

By dipping it, I meant with either an iodine dip or Revive coral dip, something like that. Not sure if that is suggested for plates but I have used it for LPS successfully in the past to deal with brown jelly infection.
If the fish are picking it you can try to cover it with a strawberry basket until it can heal.
I have had the exact same thing happen with my brain (see my thread) and it has not been successful but worth a try I suppose.

This would be great to try if there was a LFS here that I could something to dip it in. This really sucks

[The Grizz]

Well I have some Revive coral dip on the way from Edmonton, going to set up my QT and hope it come's back.

[the marine apprentice]

the coral revive is in my car dude. ill see you when you getr home from supper