Don Geddis wrote on 7/25/2007 12:54 PM:
I don't have a jet aimed directly at the
coral that died, but that rarely seems like a good idea anyway.


Don't *over* do it :-)

Yes when you get an infection in a coral with many polyps such as a small
polyp coral, cutting off the infected part by cutting where the colony is
still good, helps save the rest of the coral.

Yup, that's my experience too.

Just really tough to cut away enough, fast enough. Especially when the
infection gets to the base of the coral. The branches are pretty far apart,
but they all come together closely at the base. And once a base trunk starts
to go, nothing seems to prevent it eventually killing all the branches on that
trunk.

Very sad...


Yea it can spread very fast. One coral can be easily
killed in 2 to 3 days in this manner. It can also
spread to other corals. It can also get an infection
like this, and not kill the entire colony.

One thing that I've found with lighting is that the
higher light intensity it is used to getting, the
more vigor it has to overcome such killings.

Wayne Sallee
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