Blastomussa wellsi recovery
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They need zooplankton or other meaty foods. 
pnsnowboard
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good job guys
xinumaster
reef addict
Thanks for sharing your experience.
tippy.... One my blastos that were injured and have lost a pie shapped peice of flesh there is algae growing on the coralite that is currently bare. would you recommend cutting this part of the coralite off or just leave it alone? I could also try to scrape off the algae but I'm worried about damaging more flesh on the polyp.
It like a rusty colored short hair type, I have it on a few rocks in my tank. Been trying to get rid of it, none of the antialgae additives have killed it. SO I got a rabbitfish and some crabs that have been slowly weeding it down. It is not slime alge.... everyone says that when I tell them that it is red. Its really hard to get it off the rocks, not sure how hard it would be to get off the coralite.
TippyToeX
Premium Member
This the exposed skeleton pretty covered in this algae?
Glad that the rabbitfish and crabs at nipping away at it. Be sure to control any nutrients in your tank. That is what the algae is feeding off of. It's more a matter of starving the mico algae out to win the battle.
Glad that the rabbitfish and crabs at nipping away at it. Be sure to control any nutrients in your tank. That is what the algae is feeding off of. It's more a matter of starving the mico algae out to win the battle.
yes there was quite alot of it on the coralite, so much that you could barely see the coralite. I sprayed some of it off last night and treated my tank for red slime algae. We'll see how it looks tonight that I get off work to see how they look. The algae that I blew off yesterday had caused a healty section of a neighbor blasto to recede back off it's coralite. At least i think this is an algae. What would a brown jelly infection look like?
TippyToeX
Premium Member
tippy,
I have read that blasto's like med. to low light and that they will not open in high light. I have my blasto. colonies out in the open and a couple high in the tank. Now I only have 65 watt x 4 power compact. but all my blastos open fully and seem to have no problem with this light.
But I have read that some people get a new polyp or two a month and I have seen no new polyps on my colonies, just the same polyps getting bigger. Another site I read on said that one reefer was also not seeing growth and moved his colony to low light and then saw many new polyps sprout over the next couple of months.
I want my colonies to grow and sprout new polyps, what has been your experience with getting the best propagation?
thanks
jeff
I have read that blasto's like med. to low light and that they will not open in high light. I have my blasto. colonies out in the open and a couple high in the tank. Now I only have 65 watt x 4 power compact. but all my blastos open fully and seem to have no problem with this light.
But I have read that some people get a new polyp or two a month and I have seen no new polyps on my colonies, just the same polyps getting bigger. Another site I read on said that one reefer was also not seeing growth and moved his colony to low light and then saw many new polyps sprout over the next couple of months.
I want my colonies to grow and sprout new polyps, what has been your experience with getting the best propagation?
thanks
jeff
Jeff, They do like lower light. Compacts fit into that catagory, high light is a 400watt MH in addition to what you have. (that's what I have on a 92corner. I have some blasto in there (on the bottom) but, I think they grow better in my 20gal with 130watt of PC. PC lighting is not considered intense lighting for an SPS/LPS coral. If your blasto has huge polyps and they are getting bigger, then it must be happy with the light it gets. I think they grow well under PC's, up high or down low. If you put one too close to the light, you will notice that the polyps stay smaller all the time, then move it back down. They deff like a lower flow, don't blast them with water.
TippyToeX
Premium Member
I agree, they are low light corals and the PC you have up is just fine. They can do well under high lighting if acclimated slowly enough, but that is not the ideal situation.
As for growth wellsi is a painfully slow grower.
It's rate will depend on a lot of things of course (water quality, feedings, flow, lighting, other inhabitants, etc). All you can do for the optimal growth is to have all of those conditions steady as ideal as possible.
As for growth wellsi is a painfully slow grower.
It's rate will depend on a lot of things of course (water quality, feedings, flow, lighting, other inhabitants, etc). All you can do for the optimal growth is to have all of those conditions steady as ideal as possible.blasto melting!!
blasto melting!!
Tippy
I recently started loosing blastos. I have lost approx half of my blastos thus far. They look fine one day the next day they do not open up all the way and the next day they will have a few teeth showing thru the fleshy part of the coral, then they very quickly loose all the fleshy part leaving the coralite exposed in 1 to 2 days tops. I've been advised that they may have a bacterial infection and told to do dips in melafix by a couple other reefers that keep blastos and told that this solved their problem when they had almost the same thing happen. I've don the dips but to no evail.... I'm loosing hundreds of dollars of blastos. I had 9 colonies prior to and now I only have 5 with only a couple of polyps each having the others die off.
Have you heard of this before? Is there anything you can recommend to help? I'm desperate! I don't want to loose my favorite corals.
thanks
jeff
blasto melting!!
Tippy
I recently started loosing blastos. I have lost approx half of my blastos thus far. They look fine one day the next day they do not open up all the way and the next day they will have a few teeth showing thru the fleshy part of the coral, then they very quickly loose all the fleshy part leaving the coralite exposed in 1 to 2 days tops. I've been advised that they may have a bacterial infection and told to do dips in melafix by a couple other reefers that keep blastos and told that this solved their problem when they had almost the same thing happen. I've don the dips but to no evail.... I'm loosing hundreds of dollars of blastos. I had 9 colonies prior to and now I only have 5 with only a couple of polyps each having the others die off.
Have you heard of this before? Is there anything you can recommend to help? I'm desperate! I don't want to loose my favorite corals.
thanks
jeff
Electus unus
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I know this thread is forever old, found it googling an issue, and it seems to be this exact one. I have courage now that my blasto will come back. It's not nearly as far gone as op's. But it's surely doing the same thing. I'm gonna give this a shot. Wish me luck
