Acans

HunterBryan said:
Looks like a candy apple favia! Is it light purple with a pinkish red center Greg1786?
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Yes bryan that is exactly what it looks like. well thats what it looked like. the centers are still pinkish red but the outside edged have become white. I moved it all the way to the sandbed and a bit off center. Is it possible ill be able to bring the color back by doing this? thanks so much for all the help everywhone
 
Yea that's one of my favorite favias but yea it'll take a lil time but I'm sure if your parameters are looking good and nothing picking at it, it will get it's color back in no time
 
To update this thread, the favia ended up bleaching so bad i thought it was dead. It turned snow white. The only reason i didnt get rid of it was because the red center had the faintest pink color about the size of a pin head. So i thought there MAY be hope. I moved it to the darkest corner of my tank and away from any turbulent flow. After about a week or more nothing happened. Im colorblind so i rely heavily on my gf to help with this sorta thing. About a week and half ago she noticed at the very base of the favias around the outside it was getting a light purple color developing. After a week i moved it into a little more light. Its gotten a tad more color since the move but is still pretty white. I got a very encouraging sign last night however. After I fed the tank i was inspecting everything and noticed this poor little favia frag had puffed up all three of its "mouths" like a ballon and was expelling waste from one! Im assuming this is a good sign because its literally the first time ive ever seen it expand or retract AT ALL. As i said before ive never had a favia but im assuming this is a good thing yes?!?
 
Also, it has yet to show any feeding tentacles. It has however begun to get a little sticky, my sandsifting goby spit sand around its plug last night and the sand actually stuck to the favia. When would be a good tome to attempt to feed it, and as small as it is do you think it will accept brine shrimp? If not I have some coral smoothie i could try
 
I know one of the 967 people who viewed this must have a suggestion for me?! Lol. Im just a little stumped here as to why its taking so long to come back around as ive brought a bunch of corals back from near death and theyve made a much much faster recovery. Including recently a wellso brain coral that was practically down to a thin layer of bleached skin stretched across an almost dead skeleton that has made an almost full recovery in less than three months. All my params are rock solid they never fluctuate in fact other than the favia my entire reef (mostly sps but mixed reef overall) is thriving. I just feel like i must be doing something wrong for the favia and could really use some words of wisdom. Any and all advice is welcome whether good or bad! Thanks -greg
 
Favias of that type grow very slowly and would prefer low to moderate light.
They will not show the strong feeding response of fleshier LPS and arent easy corals to feed in a tank with hungrier mouths. Leave it where it is and give it time, if you want to see improvement take a pic and check back in a week because any changes will be sloooow
 
Thanks for the response. Ive been taking pictures about once a week to document change. The only problem is that it got so bleached that the light it reflecting off of it making it near impossible for me to get a quality picture. I tried taking about 20 photos yesterday so i could give you guys an idea of what it looks like but none of them were worth posting up. Ill just be patient and continue the course im on.
 
I've had a similar size frag of a different colour for about a year and it has only doubled in size in that year so you may have a long wait.
 
This thread has been dead for a little while but Im reviving it in hopes for some new answers. About two weeks ago I placed the favia in a small cup inside the tank. This way I can remove the cup, keeping the favia submersed in tank water still, and target feed it while isolated. Ive been doing so by squirting coral smoothie in the cup every other day while out of the tank. Ive been allowing the smoothie to float in the water column of the cup for about 20 mins so the favia has chance to eat before returning it in the cup to the tank. The favia is still very very bleached but excretes waste every few days. Still no feeder tentacles and barely any more color added. Should the process be this painfully slow? Shoiluld i try a new feeding method? Should I shade it more from the light? How long can I expect to wait before it regains its color? Thanks-Greg
 
Why not just try one small pellet over each polyp and see if that does anything. When I target feed lps I try for smaller pieces than can be easily grabbed and eaten rather than a smother with food technique.
 
I recommend keeping it way from blowing sand, it will irritate it. Try putting it in a shallow cup in some shade. Some corals take months to regain color. I wouldn't focus too much on feeding
 
I will try the pellets. I tried them a while ago to no avail but perhaps another attempt at it will work. Also I have had it in a cup for a few weeks now so it is isolated. Its not in shade though, i will try that thanks. Are favia slow growers? Has anyone had to try and recover one from injury? If so how long did it take? I just feel like some reassurance that its just a really slow process with favias to make me feel comfortable i guess. None the less thanks for all the responses up to this point they are much appreciated
 
So I took a shot with the NLS pellets and in 25 minutes it showed zero response. I dropped them directly onto the mouth with a piece of airline. On a better not just in the last three days since I moved the favia into a much more shaded area it has appeared slightly more "puffy" and it seems as though its gotten a shade darker in color according to my gf. I rely heavily on her for this sort of thing with me being color blind or 'deficient' i guess is a better word
 
To be honest man I've never fed a favia. Not that it can't be done, but the ones I have had of this variety had short feeders and I didn't even bother.

Also the one you posted earlier isn't that puffy when It's happy as far as I've seen...

It'll be fine.
 
Yea, when I would target feed the coral smoothie in the cup, its mouths would open but no tentacles. Then with the NLS pellets nothing at all. I am just going to keep it shaded, maybe use the coral smoothie method once a week or every other and just see how it goes. Ilike I said I noticed a little improvement since in the shade so hopefully that will do the trick.
 
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