New growth on Sun Coral?

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bayoubrian

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I have a Sun Coral in my new 24 gal. reef tank which seems to be doing real well..I am feeding it Mysis shrimp fortified with Vita Chem nightly and it eats about a cube's worth in two feedings (about 12 polyps). I have noticed some white lacey looking growth all around the perimeter of each polyp, am I looking at new growth or should I be concerned? Tank chemistry is great, I am dosing with Reef Code A/B and calcium is just under 500ppm. Anyone have any comments? Thanks...
 
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non-photosynt

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No, this is a sponge growing, it helps somehow with filtration. Or you may remove it with fingernail or rounded tweezers. New growth for sun corals looks like new small polyps budding in between the old big polyps, and the yellow tissue encrusting the base.

Sorry for the late reply :mrgreen:
 
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bayoubrian

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Thanks for the advice, after several weeks of watching the white areas grow larger I realized that it was bare skeleton showing while the tissue slowly died off....I believe my heater malfunctioning and raising the tank temp. to almost 90 F had something to do with it. I caught it right away but the damage was done...I did a major water change and after a few months of no progress, regular water changes and feedings it is growing back nicely. I lost a few polyps, but am starting to notice some new buds forming. In the mean time I have added another Sun Coral, the more common type that branches more and is bubble-gum pink. It is growing like crazy, I have at least 10 new polyps on it that feed every night and it looks great. My first Sun Coral seems to be a different variety, bright orange and growing in an almost perfect dome shape. The polyps are also smaller. I am looking for a Black variety now, if anyone has any leads do let me know...
 
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