Coral change colors???

[ZigZagZombie]

I had this piece for quite a long time. It was allways been brown. Just yesterday it lost all it's brown skin, and now it's this green color. The skin just flaked off. Any opinions???

 

[Len]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think your coral RTNed and is dead. If the coral skeleton is now green, a very probable culprit is an green boring algae of the genus Ostreobium spp. This algae resides under the coral tissue and bores into the skeleton, eventually killing the coral I have heard of another recent report of this problem.

 

[Anonymous]

Oh no my friend, it looks like you had a tissue loss event.

When the skin flakes off like that, it is gone. Those sps corals can be very sensitive.

 

[ZigZagZombie]

WOW 8O Your kidding....It was alive just a few days ago. Could this infect my other corals? Frogspawn leathers???

 

[Anonymous]

Sps corals are usually more sensitive to thier environment than leathers or your frogspawn. I would not really expect them to have problems just because this coral did. But you should take a good look at your water quality and try and find out what happened.

I had this happen to me, and I believe it was because I was having phosphate problems.