Rescue Corals

Wow, great looking Lobo all healed up! I hope the others do the same. I am pretty sure I am getting a "rescue pack" of acans from a dealer soon. So hopefully I will have some pics and be able to save some great pieces!
 
Thanks!! Awesome - keep us posted! I've had some pretty bad looking acan's, but never a true full rescue on them. I'd love to see yours.
 
Jarred - I'll do some researching on it too. We'll figure something out. I know I'd want that bright green back too! :)
 
Just an update, and this has me stumped.

The Acanthophyllia has lost half of its tissue (down to only one side now), but that side is coloring up quite nicely. Yet, it's still receding. I'm wondering if there will be a certain point where the zooxanthallae will reproduce to a point and produce enough sustainment for the coral to stop receding and start to heal...before it dies? The coral was so bleached and wouldn't eat that it's no wonder it is losing tissue. I just don't understand how it's losing tissue and coloring up at the same time. Ideas?

The other corals are doing great. The sun coral has a way to go, but that's typical with those.
 
first rescue

first rescue

this is my first rescue and one of my favorite corals. was a freebie from a local reefer. was receding pretty bad. took it a few days to eat, but after that it hasn't slowed down. it has 12+ babies now.
 

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Wow nice! Did you feed it?

Yeah, i started feeding with H20 life coral mix, gulf shrimp and whatever fish i catch lol. my kids net the shrimp while i catch the fish. for the naysayers i do clean the fish/shrimp then rinse with r/o. all my corals like the h20 life great product.
 
Instead of starting a new thread...I figure I will just add to this one

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This one I am still trying to save but it is looking better than before
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my rescue coral update!

my rescue coral update!

I have another rescue coral.

[09/2010] This is a 'tiny chip' of a frogsporn that a friend of mine got back in September 2010 that was accidently broken off the main frag. It was really tiny and had a little piece of skeleton on it (barely)...so I gave it a shot and glued to to a piece of marble to see if it would survive. The piece of marble you see here in photo is only 1"x1" and the 'chip' of frogsporn was no bigger than my pinky nail!!!!

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[01/2011] And now you can see this thing did indeed survive and has really grown!!! It has also turned out to be a very colorful piece with neon green body with bright purple tips!!! Looks superb under actinics!! The pic here is under FULL LIGHTING and you can see even still, the green looks like it is 'glowing'....

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[01/2012] And now...has become a beauty! Has 5 branching heads.
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Nice job on the frogspon JC-REEF....
DSMhero those are looking really good for only one month of recovery....

you guys should share what you are doing if anything to promote and speed up the recovery process....
 
jc-reef: What a beautiful frogspawn, I am jealous.

ashkan: I just acclimate to my tank and dip with CoralRx, then spot feed once a week. Other than that, just good ol' fashion waiting.
 
I bought this lobo yesterday and want to bring its health back up. I have it in the front of a biocube 29g under stock lighting and 20x1watt LEDs behind the stock bulbs. It sits under the 36watt 10000k. What should I do? Lighting, feeding or any other suggestions please. I figured this would be the best thread to post this. Thanks
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Mike Hayes
 
I'm losing my Torch and Trumpets at wits end as to what could be causing it I have had all test verified with my LFS.... so if I move them to a QT setup what should I treat them with?
 
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