Corals Bleached

[cmhollis]

The other day I had a heater malfunction, and my tank shot up to 95 degrees. Anyhow, my frogspawns and suncoral are completely bleached. Will they come back, or is it hopeless?

The one frogspawn had 7 branches and was huge.

 

[michaelg]

Yes they might. give them a chance. The sun coral is non photosynthetic, so just keep feeding it.

What do they look like?

 

[cmhollis]

The heads on the frogspawn are completely white, all that is showing is what appears to be the calcified skeleton. The polyps on the suncoral have not extended at all, all that is showing is the pinkish hard skeleton underneath. How do I feed the suncoral if the polyps don't extend?

 

[michaelg]

Is there tissue left or have they totally melted down? If it starts growing algae on it, then it's gone. If they start to expand normally, then that is a good sign that they will recover. Not much you can do really in a situation like this.