Rescue Corals

[TWEEKEDTA]

Picked up a few rescue corals to try my hand at. The first is a deeply receeded caulastrea that I put on a larger disk, but after a few days in my tanks, I can see the flesh start to swell a bit more. It will just be difficult for it to retake the coralline encrusted skeleton,as soon as I see some feeder tentacles I will try to spot feed.



The next one is a doozy. Elegance coral that was recieved before a large snail die off in the retail tank. Spent 4 or so days in these conditions before they were corrected. It's still got some flesh and before taking it home yesterday, I could see some green start to protrude from the center.

This picture was immediately after transporting, but it is severly receeded and I can see bit of flesh coming off of the coral. Any tips on this one? It's an aquacultured elegance from Quality Marine, and the only Catalaphyllia in that tank, so I don't believe it's ECS.



My current water parameters are:

Temp 78 F
pH 8.2
Ca 440 ppm
Alk 9 dkh
Mag (unknown)
Nitrate 0 ppm

Weekly 10% water changes to replenish Ca, Alk, Mag. Running a carbon reactor, fuge with chaeto and caulerpa,wet skimming. It's a more nutrient heavy system for Euphyllia and other LPS.

your top picture of the trumpet looks just like mines does right now that I'm trying to save, there tough to feed bc they don't really have and feeder tentacles and can only take in something like a cyclopeeze or something of that size in its mouth. good luck

 

[CoralReeForrest]

So I'm sure most of you remember when I got my bubble coral that had been sucked into a power head and had all of 3 little bubbles left. It is now one of my coolest specimens and is huge!

Also the acan that's in the pic was a rescue from petco for 7 dollars and it's getting great orange and green color back and is doing far better then when i got it!

 

[CoralReeForrest]

Here's a better pic

 

[greg1786]

Update to the acans im saving for my buddy!
Before after
Beforeafter
Before.....

 

[greg1786]

After

 

[91Atrac]

Was much whiter then the pics but Not a big deal but dying none the less is a meteor shower from my buddy. Here's its progress

 

[Jstn]

Here is that scoly i rescued a few months ago

The skeleton is not growing as fast as the flesh!

 

[SeabassSA]

Here is that scoly i rescued a few months ago

The skeleton is not growing as fast as the flesh!

Well done, all beautiful corals.

 

[MechEng99]

Nice job everyone!! My family and I have been sick all summer (nonstop colds, etc.), so no new rescues on my end! Boo!

 

[johnike]

Nice job everyone!! My family and I have been sick all summer (nonstop colds, etc.), so no new rescues on my end! Boo!

Good to see you, sorry everyone is ill.
:wave:

 

[Fishy 1]

This thread is awesome and I can't wait to start rescuing my own corals soon

 

[MechEng99]

Good to see you, sorry everyone is ill.
:wave:

Thanks! You know how kids in daycare are...living petri dishes!

 

[kitkat717]

Gorgeous corals. Awesome job bringing them back!

 

[Hotwired]

great job. Anytime you can intervene and rescue or improve anything's health is very rewarding. I may have to dedicate a tank for the same thing.

 

[rpjaws74]

very rewarding I bet!!

 

[ArnoVH]

I am Also in the rescue program now

I how it's going wel also got two other coral
Foto coming later any tips chopping of skeleton smart idea

 

[alb_56]

Greg 1786, could you please describe how exactly you went about bringing those acans back to life. I just got two rescues from my LFS that look about as promising as your three started. I did a revive dip and just placed them on the substrate of the tank. Should I do anything else to help them out? Or should I just leave them alone now and let them get stable enough to heal?

 

[that Fish Guy]

Awesome Thread.

Can't wait to read all of it.

 

[Forfekte]

Okay so, I know this coral could very well be too far gone, but I feel obligated to at least try to rehab it and get it back in shape. The tank I got it from has about 15 different coral that are all in the process of dying/bleaching out, unfortunately it is owned by a very irresponsible owner who literally never tests his water or salinity and the tank is only 3 months old. I tried to get more of the coral that looked like they could be rehabbed but he wouldn't oblige. There were what looked like some previously very nice specimens of some brains, acans, and a huge elegance that I think could be rescued. I'm going to try again to see if I can get him to relent.

Apologies in advance for the quality of the photo, my camera takes pictures that are 3 mb in size so the only way I know how to reduce it is to go into paint and re-size it.

The coral I was able to get I was told is a large frogspawn colony that has 25+ heads, completely bleached and the heads are not extending at all in the three days I have put it into my tank, minus one head that has only one part that is extended. I'm worried that it might be a diseased head so I would like to see if anyone here has any information about it. I am also very open to tips to help it with recovery.
Thanks
-Ryan

 

[MechEng99]

Okay so, I know this coral could very well be too far gone, but I feel obligated to at least try to rehab it and get it back in shape. The tank I got it from has about 15 different coral that are all in the process of dying/bleaching out, unfortunately it is owned by a very irresponsible owner who literally never tests his water or salinity and the tank is only 3 months old. I tried to get more of the coral that looked like they could be rehabbed but he wouldn't oblige. There were what looked like some previously very nice specimens of some brains, acans, and a huge elegance that I think could be rescued. I'm going to try again to see if I can get him to relent.

Apologies in advance for the quality of the photo, my camera takes pictures that are 3 mb in size so the only way I know how to reduce it is to go into paint and re-size it.

The coral I was able to get I was told is a large frogspawn colony that has 25+ heads, completely bleached and the heads are not extending at all in the three days I have put it into my tank, minus one head that has only one part that is extended. I'm worried that it might be a diseased head so I would like to see if anyone here has any information about it. I am also very open to tips to help it with recovery.
Thanks
-Ryan

Ryan - props to you on trying to save the corals! Hopefully you can guide the previous owner on how to salvage his tank/corals as well.

Did you dip the coral when you received it? Have you tried feeding it yet? If so, what? Has it responded? If you lightly blow on the polyp with a pipette, does the tissue fall apart? I doubt it's diseased; it's probably just decaying from neglect. On a positive note, usually corals from a tank with poor husbandry recover quickly in a healthy tank (if they weren't too far gone). If the coral is bleached, it really needs to eat to regain its strength.