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I have a toadstool coral that hasnt really been expanding like it used to. I have tryed moving it around the tank to find an ideal location but it just doesnt seem to like anything ive tryed. It is even starting to get white around the edges. My question is should I pitch it? How do you know when its dead? Is it going to contaminate my water?
Hold on. What else is going on in your tank? If you could tell us about your water, maybe somebody here can figure it all out... I need to go to the fridge for a while. But I will return!
I recall have same problem with toadstool and colts in early days of my tank. Expect my water params were not as stable as they should have been before adding such corals.
But they would shrivel up and slowly disintegrate and I was never quite sure why.
Was simply a matter of the tank maturing a bit, and ones I put in later thrived wonderfully.
In fact, guess I have been through 3 or 4 toadstools that simply overgrew my tank. Had to cut them out, frag them and start new ones.
Have one now am facing same dilemma with.
Wish you best of luck with yours...but when it really starts to fall apart, get it out as fast as you can. Sorry
Those white spots are not necessarily dead spots. We have a toadstool that had what seem to be those same spots. He didnt open up for about a week. We gave it a dip in Tropic Marins Pro Coral Cure...We really thought he was a goner as well. He didnt open up for about 2 weeks after the dip. They also do not like being moved..We dipped him, put him back in the tank and left him alone. Now he is twice the size and is absolutely beautiful...
Here he is now...
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72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
2 Percs
1 Chevron Tang
Hippo Tang
Six Line Wrasse
Coral Banded Shrimp
Cleaner Shrimp
Starry Blenny
4 Lyretail Anthias
Long Polyp Toadstool
Montipora
Long Tentacle Anenome
Short tentacle plate
Pulsing Xenia
Green Star polyps
Frogspawn
Hi,
If i have to guess maybe your water is a little off, how much light do you have and what kind ,and whats your phos levels.
Even softies like pretty good water.
Doug
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55 GAL OP, 37 GAL SEA HORSE TANK, 5 CLARKI,
2 MARRONS,2 SERPANT STAR,1 RANDALL PISTOL,NUMEROUS HERMITS,2 SKUNKS,
4 PEPERMINT,1 ANAEMONE, SEVERAL SOFT CORALS, 2 ADULT W/C SEA HORSES,8 CHROMIS.
1 B 1 LM BLEEMY,1 WATCHMAN,1 TRUE PERCULA, 2 TANGs, 1 gold angel 1 ROYAL BEAUTY. 1 20 GAL SUMP WITH 1skimmer, 1 fluidized sand filter,
REFORGIUM, AND DSB IN MAIN AND SUMP, right handed hermits.
When do you give up? 
