Big bubble on hammer head

[MrCrab]

Dose any one out there have one of these growing on there hammer head coral.

http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r183/Trevorgoettler/scan0004.jpg

[MrCrab]

Dose any one know what it is

[Jon123]

Ive seen some reports of this sort of thing in LSP corals, but all a search could find is this:

"The sudden mixing of cold and warm/hot waters can cause this condition (like an embolism). It is also caused by microbubbles that supersaturate the water as when aspirated through a pinhole leak in the return pump plumbing. It is also caused by excessive illumination (recent upgrade of lights or changing of an old lamp). And lastly, air is sometimes ingested deliberately by some SPS with or without food (perhaps for the proteins attracted to the surface of each air bubble). The last event is the least common and seems to occur most often captivity (not on a reef so much). All other explanations here are unfavorable but not fatal. We simply must give it some time to see if it will pass (week+) or lance it if necessary (interferes with normal polyp cycles)."

Hope that helps a little and sorry about the terrible sentence structure of the quote.

Jon

[rjc]

Mine did that...don't touch it! It eventually grew another branch and head from it.

Rob


Dose any one know what it is