Rescue Corals

[Mhayes462]

Luvzz, You've got another chalice. It doesn't look bad to me. But if you see the flesh physically lifting you can superglue it down around the edges. Good luck.


Mike Hayes

 

[luvzz2play]

thx Mike...thought it was a chalice but wasn't 100%. should i superglue that edge? it does look lifted to me.

totally new looking for good guided direction... thx

 

[Mhayes462]

I think it's just stretched right there from eye to eye. Does it move or flap in the flow of the water? From the picture I'd say its ok, but it's not going to hurt it if you do decide to glue it


Mike Hayes

 

[MechEng99]

Tissue pulling away from the skeleton like that isn't usually resolved with superglue. It's usually a sign of a water quality issue, and it'll usually continue even with superglue. What are your water parameters?

 

[luvzz2play]

I'm very new to all of this and I Don't know if the frag came that way or my water caused that but to be on the safe side i did a water change of about 18%. The other thing that had caught my attention was my first chalice. I notice now on a bit of the edge it appears white and i don't know if that is good or bad and up until the other day it had been steadily getting better. I also notice there is a bit of difference from the first pic to the most recent o that chalice that while overall it looks better to me, there are areas where there is less tissue. the tank has been up since mid august and that chalice frag was my first coral purchase
my parameters from 12-2 were

sg 1.024
mg 1360
kH 12.3
Ca 420
NO3 0
PO4 0 - 0.25 (couldn't decide on color)
I have 2 test kits. An API and a Red Sea. I questioned my NO/PO numbers but have noticed a tankwide recession of algae. less cyano, less hair, less chaeto and algae needs those to grow right?

my temp usually runs between 76.2-79

 

[Jon01]

In my very uneducated opinion it looks like your alk is too high. Everything else looks good.

 

[silver17jo]

Has to be one of my favorite threads nice job guys

 

[chrissreef]

Mech

Hi, I got this chalice from WWC at MACNA. All other Chalices I have are growing, eating and doing great. This one isn't showing skeleton (yet) but appears to be receding/thinning in the highlighted areas. It doesn't expand tentacles at night or eat when I sprinkle Fauna on it like the others do. The eyes are small and poke out like that unlike my other 6 chalices so it's probably a different variety. It's in the upper left of a 75g, frag tray, med current, under 4 T5's. I haven't tested water in a while but it has always been stable and like I said, the other chalices are doing great. I've dipped in TLF Revive. (water is typically 8.2ph, 9 alk, 0 phos/nitrates)

Does this look parasitic or like an infection? Thoughts/suggestions? Placement change? Should I frag it down to its 1 good corner? It's hard to tell but I've never seen this color before so I really don't want to lose it.

Thx for any tips! Saw this post when you first started it, glad to see it's grown!!

 

[Josh_84]

Great thread folks! I try to do tis whenever I come across something I think can be saved and have had some good success too! Unfortunatlly I have never taken any pics to share. I will next time though!

 

[Motish]

After reading some parts of this thread, I was inspired to try one rescue myself. Here is what I got:

So what do you think? I forgot about cutting the dead rock part, should I do it? If so should I completely remove it or just smooth it with a bone cutter?
I am not even sure about the I.D of this coral...

 

[cal3v]

I would leave it, I've had similar looking corals and if you leave the skeleton it seems that the polyps can regrow and emerge out of seemingly dead skeleton. I have a similar piece that I thought was dead and it is starting to now re-emerge.

 

[aquanooby]

Wow yall are awesome I cant wait to have all my equipment in place and the skills to try this I love helping critters of all types and sizes I just need to get my first coral and keep it alive first and not cause issues like these lol

 

[mayjong]

my rescue

my rescue

o-k , here is an update on my rescue...
this is a babies breath favia that a challice fell on and killed . i posted the first pic back in july. if you look close, you can see a couple tiny (as big as the "o" in this sentence) pieces of flesh.


the second pic was taken last night.
looks a little better!

 

[ferguson2]

My new rescue, just not sure what it is.

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[Motish]

o-k , here is an update on my rescue...
this is a babies breath favia that a challice fell on and killed . i posted the first pic back in july. if you look close, you can see a couple tiny (as big as the "o" in this sentence) pieces of flesh.


the second pic was taken last night.
looks a little better!

A little better?? This coral looks much better!! Amazing work! Would you please write what you did when you first brought it to your tank? Did you smooth the rock or brake any part of it?
Thanks.

 

[wildman926]

The Duncan I posted above has not made any progress, but has not died, so that is a good thing.

Here is a scoly I traded a frag for. It is missing 1/3 of it's shell, and is on the mend. This is pic is 6 hours in my tank -

Well, after wondering what happened to this LPS, I took a look at it today, and it was fragged. This is what a trachy looks like fragged. It is doing much better, growing out much fuller. It actually is starting to get orange lines in it, but hard to see with my iphone camera -

 

[joe3196]

rescue acan lord its a bad pic but it is a sweet hot pink with a gray blue ring and yellow feeding tenticals.

 

[MechEng99]

Wow everyone's been busy!!

luvzz2play - how's that chalice doing? Sorry I didn't get back to you.

chrisreef - chalices new to a tank tend to look a bit "thin" if they are put under too much light. I see that you have it up on a frag rack - I recommend all new corals go on the sandbed for acclimation.

Motish - that looks like a favia to me, but it may be an acan. How's it doing now? That pink patch worries me, so I hope the coral hasn't continued to recede in that area. With corals like that, it's not necessary to cut the skeleton off. It should grow back over it pretty well on its own.

Mayjong - that is BEAUTIFUL! Very, very, very nice save!

Ferguson2 - I posted in your other thread, and I'm guessing Australomussa based on your other photos. What happened to it? If I had to guess, it looks like a sudden change (for the worse) in water quality. I would feed it quite a bit up front since it looks like it just has bleached tissue around the rim that may come back.

Wildman - ahh, a frag makes sense. Very beautiful!

joe3196 - cute little acan! How long have you had it?

Everyone else - thanks for all the compliments and support! I'm truly amazed at how many corals we've all rescued!!

 

[Motish]

Motish - that looks like a favia to me, but it may be an acan. How's it doing now? That pink patch worries me, so I hope the coral hasn't continued to recede in that area. With corals like that, it's not necessary to cut the skeleton off. It should grow back over it pretty well on its own.

Hi Mecheng99.
Thanks for your reply.
That pink patch worries me too so I'm keeping an eye on it, so far I can't see receding. The heads around are responding and eating like pigs day and night to anything I offer... So I hope to re-populate the entire rock.

Any tips are welcome.

 

[mayjong]

first i dipped it in a very weak solution (forget the name, but it smells like lysol) then all i did with the favia is put it on my sandbed, about 18-20" below retrofit led's. low-med flow. i have never spot fed it anything.
it's still there, i figure if it likes it, i won't move it!