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Old 11-10-2012, 02:44 PM
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Default Is my devils hand soft coral sick?

This guy hasn't been looking up to much over the last week or two. Does he have a parasite or something? He was a nice yellow/green and now he seems to have some brown/red crap on his skin. Attached is a pic. Please let me know what he might have caught and what I should do about it.
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Old 11-10-2012, 02:49 PM
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could be shedding

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Old 11-10-2012, 02:56 PM
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i noticed it's close to the sand bed so it might not have enough flow to strip off the material.Try blowing it off manually with a turkey baster to help it out
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Old 11-10-2012, 03:00 PM
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It's shedding just leave it and it will puff up and drop the old skin when it's ready, perfectly normal
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Old 11-10-2012, 04:56 PM
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Thanks guys. I've only had him since September so I haven't seen his whole cycle. I'll move him to a better flow area. It is cool how they are big and polypy one day and then the next they look like someone let all the air out of them.
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Old 11-10-2012, 06:10 PM
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Here's a picture of my DH .Mounted half way up on my rock,he gets a upward flow of water and if you notice the blank spot on him ,that used to be a finger that fell off and grew a new colony

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