LOBO CPR needed (1 Viewer)

[steveb]

Had an urchin knock my pectinia frag over on top of my lobophyllia.

while the pectinia took a hit one of its branches (no big deal), the lobo got nuked. Ever since it has slowly declined.

Any ideas on how to stop the tissue death/loss?

 

[Seaworthy Aquatics]

Bummer, looks like it was a beautiful piece. As long as it still has an intact mouth it can be saved in my experience. My go to now for tissue loss is polyplab Primer, seems to stop or severly slow most forms of necrosis. I've had luck with STN, RTN and even brown jelly with this stuff. Revive is also pretty good but it doesn't seem to help with bacterial problems which might be present now with tissue loss like that, but it will get rid of excess dead tissue and whatnot that could be bugging it. I'd give it a good dip in something like those to clean up any junk and lightly feed it if it looks hungry, the extra energy usually helps but too much food can be the opposite. Probably just a wating game besides that though. I only have moderate experience with lobos so maybe someone else has some better tips. Hope it bounces back!

 

[steveb]

yeah it sucks was one of my favorite pieces

 

[webster1234]

A Lugols dip has worked for me. Pectinas are usually pretty tame as lobo's tend to be aggressive. I'm surprised the lobo was the one that suffered the most

 

[steveb]

yep it sucks. The pectinia lost a branch but thats it. already starting to regrow over it. The initial spot on the lobo was about 3/4" but has just slowly spread over time. I should have addressed this last week.

 

[steveb]

I’m sure this has nothing to do with it...

y’all move along nothing to see here

 

[foos]

Do you use amino acids? Apparently wwc uses them to help coral recover. May want to look into how they use them and give it a go.

 

[H-D-Fatboy-16]

So what happened to it. Did it survive?

 

[steveb]

Still hanging in. Revive and Lugals arrived this afternoon. Planning on dipping it tomorrow probably in the lugals.