Turbinaria patula

[KimPossible]

Hello,
I have a Pagoda cup coral. It appears to be doing well since I bought it 4 mo. ago. I have it under 260 total watts. In moderate crosswise flow. I spot feed it once a week and add a "reef stew" (abundant with life~phytoplankton, brine shrimp, rotifers, copepods, Nannochloropsis, Tetraselmis, and Isochyrsisto) to my tank bi-weekly.
It has what looks like white excrement coming from it's tissue. It appears in tiny white pin size dots, kinda looks like cotton.
I have seen it before, but it went away. This time there is more of it.
What's going on?
~TIA

 

[KimPossible]

anyone have a pagoda?

 

[Echinos]

Pagoda regularly will let off a slime coat to clean themselves. Just have good flow on it to blow it off.

 

[Jiddy]

Mine had that on the edge of the cup when i originally bought it, i assumed that it was healing from the LFS cutting it, i havent seen it since i put it in my tank once it healed up

 

[KimPossible]

Well, once again the "stuff" is gone.
I'm positive it'll show back up, I'm just trying to figure this coral out

 

[bc_slc]

I have one as well, and haven't ever seen what you describe. Sorry I am not more helpful. I have pretty good alternating flow directed across at mine from my seaswirl, so it may be that I don't see it because it gets blown away. My experience with this coral is that it needs more flow and more direct feeding than I originally thought. In fact I sold the mother colony to Les because it was struggling in my tank. The piece I kept was in a higher location, with more flow and easier to reach with the turkey baster, and it is super super happy now.

 

[KimPossible]

Thanks guys! I'm setting up a 115 in the next month for the inhabitants of my 55. I am going with a closed loop powered by a super squirt and Iwaki. Flow is definately in the fore front of the whole project.

bc, how often do you direct feed?
What are signs of this coral in stress?

Other than the pin point cotton like things there is tons of new tissue and polyp growth on my pagoda.