Is my SPS dead/done for?

[.Marshall]

Just wondering what you guys think.. I got this ORA Joe the Coral frag about 3 weeks ago and I am wondering if its a goner. I got a GARF Bonsai frag the same time and it is about 3 inches higher in the tank and in DIRECT head on flow from my mp40 is doing very well! Purpling up nicely and I can see some very vivid green PE!

So what do you think? Dead and gone?

ORA Joe the Coral (SPS in question)

GARF Bonsai (Hard to tell with the crappy point and shoot camera but it is coloring up nicely!)

 

[krjackso]

id say its not done for yet. I think I see a little polyp extension and still brown. Not looking great but not done for until you see bleach white. make small adjustments to placement with regards to flow and light exposure and see if you can make it happier.

 

[.Marshall]

id say its not done for yet. I think I see a little polyp extension and still brown. Not looking great but not done for until you see bleach white. make small adjustments to placement with regards to flow and light exposure and see if you can make it happier.

That's all I needed, a little hope. Thanks! I'm going to move it up a bit and more in the flow of the vortech.

 

[BillyC]

You have lots of hope! I thought I lost all my sps during a move and they looked even worse than yours. A lot of them came back from the dead and are doing awesome only 3 months later. Good luck

 

[reefer209]

That piece is still alive. Its not happy, but its alive. Is it on a downhill decline or does it look about the same as when you received it?

 

[.Marshall]

That piece is still alive. Its not happy, but its alive. Is it on a downhill decline or does it look about the same as when you received it?

Looks better than when I first recieved it, I could barely see brown stripes up and down the trunk of it, I guess the real reason I thought it was dead was because the tips were losing tissue and became white, I will hold out on it! moveing it high in the tank more though!

 

[cpt cautious]

I have had a piece turn nearly completely white and thought it was gone, but i had remembered reading that even if only a bit of tissue is left it would come back and it surely did, just do your best to keep it healthy!

 

[Alex T.]

This looks like a very new tank. I'd leave it where it is because it could stress it even more to move it. I'd also move it down before I moved it up. When corals are light in color and fading, it's rarely for lack of light. Many SPS do just fine lower in the tank.

I would:

1. Move it down and let it recover while feeding more.
2. Leave it where it is...lower your light duration (photoperiod) and feed more.


JMHO

 

[M007]

Not dead yet, will takes some time and patience to bring it back tho.

 

[.Marshall]

This looks like a very new tank. I'd leave it where it is because it could stress it even more to move it. I'd also move it down before I moved it up. When corals are light in color and fading, it's rarely for lack of light. Many SPS do just fine lower in the tank.

I would:

1. Move it down and let it recover while feeding more.
2. Leave it where it is...lower your light duration (photoperiod) and feed more.


JMHO

Interesting, alright I will move it down. It is a relatively new tank (~3 months old) but I decided to throw some SPS in there just to see how they would fare, the GARF is extremely happy and is almost fully purple, just working on the Joe! Thanks for the help!

 

[.Marshall]

Moved the Joe the Coral frag down acouple inches and away from the blasting of the Mp40 and it is reacting very well!! Here is a picture of what it looks like now, you can see the before picture in the original post.

 

[.Marshall]

I thought I lost all my sps during a move and they looked even worse than yours

Yeah i've heard that a lot after starting to research this. Now, I will not give up on a coral no matter how terrible it looks.. or until it start dissolving in the tank lol