damage and recovery temp spike plus 5 weeks
damage and recovery temp spike plus 5 weeks
Well its been about six weeks since the spike. The valida and nana's were hit hard. They all lost significant flesh around the base. They have all fully recovered. The Efflos also lost some flesh and have recovered. The PM lost some flesh on one branch. I fraged the limb and the colony recovered and healed the frag spot in about two weeks . The branches in the frag spot are over one quarter inch long. The only coral still showing stress are my Hawkins colonies. They both browned out imediately. They have been coloring back up but one of them rtned about a week ago, A couple of the tips held flesh and they are holding steady as frags. The other colony began to Rtn Tonight. I expect it to loose a lot of the browned our spots. Hopefully the tips will suvive and i will save a little of it. It seems the smooth skined corals were hit harder thn most of the others. This makes sense as one would expect them to come from deeper more temp stable parts of the reef. Here are some images that show what i am talking about.
This is an image of my big purple Stag. This guy lost a lot of base right after the event. As you can see it is almost fully recovered. There is some light spots around the base but I dont expec tthis coral to do anything but grow from here on out. If you look to the right of the stag you can see an efflo . If you look at the base you can see where the base has also lost flesh. The edges are sharp and there is no new loss. This coral is alsowell on the way to recovery and i dont expect anymore loss from this coral.
Here is an image of the back of the purple monster colony. I was really afraid I was going to loose this colony when i saw the flesh loss on one of the branches. However as you can see, the coral is fully healed and in less than a month the frag scar is healed and has quarter inch long branches.
Here is an image of the Hawkins that is curently loosing flesh. You can see the white spot where the flesh is gone. These images were taken this afternoon and the coral has lost more flesh since these were taken.
All in all, I feel very fortunate that the loses and damage were as limited as they have turned out to be. I expect to save some frags of the Hawkins and other than that I only lost one colony. The tank has recovered and the color is coming back fast. Some of the colonies seem to be growing faster than they ever have and the colors are getting more intense every day.