What Happened to My Spaghetti Leather?

[idrum]

Have (had?) a beautiful creamy white spaghetti leather which grew rapidly and became the showpiece of my tank. Noticed this morning it was slumped over badly and appear to be losing some of its flesh - put my hands in the tank to move it - before I did that though, I sort of whisked the water above it to potentially shake loose any detritus - as I did this, a good portion of its 'flesh' flaked off into the water.

Now the coral is still slung over and has lost a bunch of its 'flesh'

Any idea what the cause is? I'm assuming perhaps stung by another coral - the closest is a green hammer. My Galaxea and Elegance are over 6" away from him.

Or, is it some type of water parameter poisoning?

Also, should I worry about this affecting the health of my fish - i.e. ammonia spike as when a fish dies.

Thanks in advance

 

[Anonymous]

i just wanted to bump this back to the top because i'm considering ordering a sinularia flexiblis from petwarehouse.com one of these days and just want to hopefully get some more input on the coral. Sprungs Corals a quick reference guide has a quick little description. any chance i could get some nitty gritty details from fellow reef keepers?

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