TWEEKEDTA
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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