Help Blue Tort Dying

[milsaltnewbie07]

Hey guys i just got home today from work. i was away for 3 days and i came home to find this blue tort looking really bad, Is it Dead?, Can i Bring it back, or is it to late. All water params ar good. I think i just place it to hig in my tank when i bought it 5 days ago. Lighting is 150w HQI in a Biocube 14
PLease Help

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[coralfragger101]

It's not dead. You should always start new frags off lower in the tank and work them up. Move it down for awhile and make sure it's getting flow.

 

[milsaltnewbie07]

coool. Thats what told the dude at the LSF i got it from. but he said not to beacuse of the light they have in their prop tank you = more or less the Watts per gallon in mine. I told him that was wrong but he swore he was right . i dont know why i listened to him

 

[ReefWreak]

hope it works out for it... but you do know how hard it will be to raise a tort in a 14g tank with halides, right? Do you have a chiller and auto-topoff? I don't on my 24g with a 150w coralife fixture, and it evaporates a huge ammount of water each day, fluxuating the salinity like crazy, and the temp goes from 80 (in morning because heater is set to 80) up to 83-84 by the time the lights go out. It won't go lower, and that's with almost twice the volume of your tank. I wish you luck, but just from my experience, I can see where keeping fragile SPS can be really difficult.

 

[coralfragger101]

Geez - I didn't realize this is in a nano. Personally, I wouldn't even attempt it.

 

[coralfragger101]

Oh yea - IMO, the majority of LFS's don't have a clue when it comes to reef tanks.

 

[milsaltnewbie07]

Its only going to be in the nano untill novenber that I'm moving back to miami cause I'm getting out of the military. So I'm not worried about the whole nano issue. I'll get a 200 + tank over there. My only concer now its the descoloration

 

[Rogger Castells]

it is not dead yet, but it is just a matter of a day or two before it dies, your best bet will be to find a tank that is prepared to handle SPS and have them babaysit your coral until you get your new tank, otherwise the coral will die.

 

[jeffbrig]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9904490#post9904490 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by milsaltnewbie07
Its only going to be in the nano untill novenber that I'm moving back to miami cause I'm getting out of the military. So I'm not worried about the whole nano issue.

You probably should be worried about the nano issue. The discoloration is a sure sign of stress - be it a change in lighting intensity, or fluctuations in temperature, salinity, or whatever else. Stability is going to be an issue with 150w of lighting over that volume of water, and that makes things more difficult. Not impossible, but a lot harder.

Once a coral has bleached and dumped its zooxanthellae, it has severely reduced its ability to produce the energy that it needs to recover. Cross your fingers, but I think it's a long shot for this coral to make it to November.