Favia vs Sun Coral

[Reef Pilot]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

It maybe also also that you harmed the flavia with the bottle and then the coral got infected with bacteria and protozoares.

Your pic is very bad but it seems that there is some brown jelly all over it, which would indicate a disease rather than a coral war.

No, I didn't have the bottle on overnight. That is just for feeding. But when I removed the bottle, I jostled the sun coral (not glued down) and it was too close to the favia. This morning, the favia was all white, and showing some skeleton on that side. The sun coral heads were extended and touching the favia, almost like it was trying to eat it.

On the far side of the favia, there are a couple polyp sections that are still alive, and even some blue showing, so maybe they will survive. But 80% of it is dead. The sun coral must have a very powerful sting to have it happen that fast. I noticed all the live rock around that area turned white, too.

This all happened overnight. The favia was fine yesterday evening.

Was trying to take the pic with my iPad, but it has a very narrow depth of field with the auto focus, and hard to get it just right. Need to get a proper camera,... one of these years....