Blue Bottlebrush acro

[sigster500]

Hi all i have a Bluebottle brush acro, thats dying from the base upwards, it is going white very very slowly, all parameters are good etc and the rest of my acros 20+ are doing fine.
Now should i frag it before it's too late or shall i let it carry on slowly getting whiter, i have to confess ive touched this coral with bare hands, i know i shoudnt have.
Are these bottlebrushes esp hard to keep compared with other sps? (The Uk has no knowledge of these)

Any thought would be massive, cheers

Should i wait to see if the it stops going white also?

 

[Serioussnaps]

WHAT ARE YOUR PARAMS?

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TANK IT CAME FROM AND YOUR TANK?

IS IT WILD?

 

[sigster500]

my parameters are much like the shop i bought it from, It came from one of the UK's best sps shops and i know them well.
Sorry for being ignorant when you say wild do you mean a sps that comes from a overseas grown coral or a frag grown from a local shop?

 

[dvanacker]

Wild is ....is collected wild from the reef. Success is often harder with wild SPS.

I have had this problem recently too and find that often fraggin is best. Watch it for a while and if you think your paramters are good and it is still STNing then I would frag it.

 

[McCrary]

If its bleaching from the base up and all your other corals are doing fine, then you may want to frag it. Some acros just don't do well despite our best efforts. Handling it with bare hands has never been a problem with me. I have left acros out of water for 20+ minutes with minimal damage. The only real problems are when positioning them for long periods of time. If a acro gets handled for more than 30 minutes they seem to freak out and will produce a lot of mucus. But they almost always recover.

 

[Frankysreef]

frag it... common with wild colonies... the frags will grow back quick.

 

[sigster500]

Thanks for the replys guys, i fragged it tonight and managed to get 6 healthy frags from it bonus! also the 2 acro crabs managed to stay on one frag now they separated.

Cheers for advice much appreciated.