Do these corals stand a chance?

[DerekG4]

Just got these LPS corals from my trusted LFS, gave them to me to see if they'll live (She gave them to me for free but the deal was if they live I just gotta pay for $15 for each, if they die, I don't have to pay for anything of course) I've had a few corals that were dying (a favia that lost it's colors and had algae and a wellso that was really faded and was really skinny) but nothing this major

She gave them to me and my mom knowing our tank has quite a couple things growing quickly (I have a zoa called beta eyes that I bought with 3 heads. In just 2.5 months, it has already about 42 and still growing, I have an encrusting pavona coral that is growing a few millimeters per week, a 5 inch rainbow BTA that just split naturally, and an acropora that seems to be doing very well in a mostly LPS and Softies tank. I'd include GSP but everyone has that growing fast :hmm4: )

The corals below are meat coral, a cynarina button, and a lobo (The lobo isn't as bright as it is in the photo) From left to right: Cynarina, Lobo, and the meat coral

Those photos are when I just placed them in the tank. Right now the lobo is about the same, the meat coral is a bit more inflated, and the cynarina has a couple bubbles in the back that are a little inflated as well.

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Best answer is, Time will tell. The first two don't look so hot with the gaping open mouth's on them. The last one is as well but not as bad. Bottom line is they don't look too healthy.

 

[DerekG4]

Not sure what the story is on them. I know one of them got burned because the lady at the LFS saw that it had an aiptasia (I think it was the cynarina) and her way of killing them is getting an alkalinity buffer mixed with a bit of water, and kalkwasser I think and it turns to a pasty substance that whenever you put it on the anemone, it gets burned and eventually suffocates. Apparently some of that got on the coral and it got burned. Don't know about the other 2. By the way, that's not the mouth of the lobo, that's a hole on it, actually has quite a couple holes.

 

[nanodude87]

Not sure what the story is on them. I know one of them got burned because the lady at the LFS saw that it had an aiptasia (I think it was the cynarina) and her way of killing them is getting an alkalinity buffer mixed with a bit of water, and kalkwasser I think and it turns to a pasty substance that whenever you put it on the anemone, it gets burned and eventually suffocates. Apparently some of that got on the coral and it got burned. Don't know about the other 2. By the way, that's not the mouth of the lobo, that's a hole on it, actually has quite a couple holes.

Spot feeding them and time is basically the only thing you can do. Good luck w the rehab!

 

[DerekG4]

How long does it normally take for a recovery like these to fully heal? The lobo is getting a bit greener, the cynarina is getting more bubbly, and the acanthophyllia is inflating a lot more.

 

[shubunk]

Are they still alive?

 

[jayball]

You may want to trim down the sharp spikes of skeleton on the third one. There is a "rescue coral" thread in this subforum somewhere that has a bunch of info.

 

[DerekG4]

Yea, they're still alive.

Alrighty, I'll go look at it.

 

[mscarpena]

I've had ones look like this turn around. However a few years after they died for seemingly no reason at all. I don't know that I would trim down the skeleton more stress and you will surely damage some flesh. Keep you water flow on them nice and moderate and lower light to not burn them more.

 

[DerekG4]

Almost forgot about my thread, the acanthophyllia (Started to grow white by the border then eventually just shrunk until there was no more) died, the lobo's holes started to get bigger although the color and everything else still seems fine. The cynarina has hardly changed, if anything, the bubbles on it's borders have inflated a tiny bit more.

 

[anth245]

My green open brain totally died off right to only a green mouth, now a year and a half later its massive so basically, lots of time needed!!