Rescue Corals

[Jstn]

I was using 20 mL in one gallon of water, I treated all my acans at once, in a 5 gal bucket, for 15 minutes. I lost three of them over the next two days from RTN. I was more concerned that it didn't kill the worms I had to cut all the acans up to get any remaining worms. It really was a heart breaking affair, I lost all but two acans (of 15 that I had for over 3 years).

 

[MechEng99]

I would've only used 8 ml to a gallon of water, but I know plenty of people who dose much higher than I do with no problems. I'm really sorry to hear that. I wonder if something else was going on...like something died and released toxins. Either way...that's too bad.

 

[Jstn]

I think it was a perfect storm case, Im not blaming bayer at all. For six months my tank declined, I was feeding less to compensate so my hidden eunice worms went to town munching my coral. I moved them to a 20 gal holding tank while I rebooted my old tank (bleached rock, acid washed), then moved them back after a few weeks, I think it may of been too much stress. OH well back to collecting more acans...

 

[johnike]

Got another yesterday. Put it next to the red one that came amazingly back to life over the last 6 months.

 

[MechEng99]

Wow, that red one is phenomenal! Good luck on the new one!

 

[johnike]

Thanks, the red one was in worse shape. I have a couple Chalices I'm working on as well.

 

[johnike]

A little progress

 

[MechEng99]

Wow...great progress! Any idea what happened to it in the first place? What are you doing to help it along?

 

[johnike]

Wow...great progress! Any idea what happened to it in the first place? What are you doing to help it along?

I rescued it from a friend that rescued it from another friend.
Doing nothing out of the ordinary, lower light and flow, and some Rod's Food.
And thank you.

 

[Steveb]

I have had this one for a little while in my frag tank it was receding off of the skeleton at the LFS. That has stopped but don't seem to be making any progress getting it to regrow.. is this one of those deals where I should either cut off the exposed skeleton or fill the ridges in with putty or something?

I think it is a Platygyra sp. (commonly called maze brain or brain worm coral) but also wanted to share the pic's showing the feeding tentacles... Each spot is from dropping fauna marin LPS pellets on it. Sorry they are not better quality I am obviously camera challenged...

 

[wildman926]

Got a new welso. I did not notice how it looked in pic when it was being sold as I only had my laptop screen to view it in.

Anyways, here is the first pic when being sold. It has the red arrow pointing to it -



First day in my tank, 7/9, notice bleached, and receded tissue -




After only 2 days in my tank taken today -




The person I had purchased it from had MH and T5's. I have BuildMyLED.com strips (3).

 

[91Atrac]

Wicked recover on that guy.

 

[Shaummy]

Here's my Wellso rescue I got from a fellow reefer:


Before

After 2 months

 

[MechEng99]

baringcs - I usually cut any big chunks of skeleton off if they're easy to cut. Or, if the remaining skeleton isn't smooth, I'd smooth it down (I've used a dremel, band saw, whatever.) If it isn't easy to do, don't worry about it - it'll regrow in time. There's no point in stressing the coral out over it.

wildman926 - sorry you were sold an unhealthy coral! At least it's doing better within only a couple of days.

Shaummy - that looks so much better! Any words of advice for everyone?

 

[Shaummy]

Honestly this coral was actually pretty healthy but with the guys LED's bleaching it out, and no shade available and his tank wasn't in a place where he could reach it to spot feed either.

You can see in the first picture that I placed it in a shaded spot, since I have almost 400W of PC lighting over the tank.

I started to target feed him nightly an hour or after the lights went out the feeders were showing. I did put a piece of tupperware over it since the fish/CUC liked to come steal the mysis off there and turns out my pygmy flameback likes to nip so he's gonna have to go. Fed straight mysis until he started to puff up again.

Then slowly moved him out of the shade and kept up with the feeding. 2 months later it is looking good, but still a ways to go.

Its my first coral ever so I'm pretty excited to see it come back and gives me some confidence to move on to a Torch next.

 

[dixiedog]

Cool thread, I'll play! Here is a before and after of an acan I brought back from the edge, in late 2010. I actually posted a thread on it here at the time. Exactly five months elapsed between pics one and two.

 

[MechEng99]

Nice work dixiedog! Words of advice?

 

[johnike]

Yep, nice work everyone.
keep 'em coming.

 

[dixiedog]

Nice work dixiedog! Words of advice?

Buy low, sell high? LOL

But no, the thing is, I never knew what made it decline in the first place. I moved it to another tank and it just came back on its own, pretty much.

 

[wildman926]

After one week from receiving the welso from my post above, it is fully recovered. I think it was caught in time before further deterioration, and just needed better lighting and water quality -