How I helped my bleached Yuma

[brbarkey]

Im a newbie but I thought I'd share my experience...who knows...

So I accedently bought a yuma in april (09), I thought at the time they were easy to keep like any other mushroom. It was probably slightly bleached at the time...anyway over time it expelled the Zooxanthella on several occasions. I finally moved it to a back corner where it wasnt getting much light and it slowly brought back some color...not much though. My real break through came with my 10000 K light went out. It probably took me two weekds to get a replacement. During that time it was exposed to only Actinic lighting. When I got my new light bulb and turn my tank back on I noticed that my Yuma had improved significatly in a short period of time.

Just an FYI

anybody else seen this?

 

[chuckuply]

Interesting, I'm sure the same thing can be replicated by moving it into any shaded area in the tank. How did the rest of your corals adapt to being with only actinic?

 

[madadi]

what kind of 10k light are you running and what kind of actinic. thanks

 

[skjohn98]

It could be low light allows them to heal in some way?????

 

[Kataro]

Something like that happened to me but wasnt bleach.. I brought my yuma home and it was too cold in the car (65-70), idk what else might be a factor but my yuma shrunk and their original color disappeared and they begins to glow neon green.... Its been 3 weeks now and its slowly getting their color back.

 

[brbarkey]

How did the rest of your corals adapt to being with only actinic?

...Fine, I guess. I didnt notice anything bad.

what kind of 10k light are you running and what kind of actinic.

These were the bulbs that came with the tank...is it coral life??


As a follow up it is doing great!

 

[Bcamp]

Yes,same here yumas are usually low light corals.

 

[kac01]

My yumas melted away under the metal halides.

 

[brbarkey]

Just a small update...the yuma has regressed a little so I put the sucker under more shade. Not sure why it regressed but we will see if it recovers...I have had it since april 09

 

[suta4242]

I've had a couple of bleached yuma frags thanks to my collector urchin. He'd take them for a ride, lose them under rockwork somewhere & then reappear with a white frag a month or two later.

This works for me: put it in a shady but accessible spot, & spot feed every 2nd day to help it recover faster. All my bleached ones have eventually regained full colour like this.

good luck!

 

[brbarkey]

Just in this short amount of time I have noticed a difference.