Save My Brain Please

[dnsfpl]

what could have cause this? any chance to recover?
anything i can do to aid its recovery?

thanks a million

 

[anoy1nce]

Can you post your tank parameters?

 

[dnsfpl]

ammonia 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 25, phosphate 0.25
temperature 28 degree celsius

thanks

 

[sanababit]

whats wrong with it, i really cant tell from the pic

sana

 

[francis1123]

to me it looks kinda bleached. it is hard to tell from the pic. what lights are you running? where is it located in the tank(high, mid, low)? i would probably move it to a lower light area and try to get it to eat some mysis or something else meaty.

 

[dnsfpl]

i am using 4 x 39w T5 for my 3x2x2 feet tank
it is placed at the lower bottom, slightly shaded

it ate the small piece of prawn meat i fed yesterday

thanks

 

[username in use]

hows the flow, mine did better when I put it in a lower flow area and it did really well when I stopped feeding it, believe it or not. I also think that they tend to open up a bit more on the sand as opposed to the rocks. good luck, corals can come back from almost anything in my eperience if your patient.

 

[snorvich]

Low light, low flow, sand based. What fish in that tank?

 

[dnsfpl]

its already in this state when i got it
i place it in a low light/flow position

fish includes blue & yellow tang, true perc pair, purple firefish pair, chromis, diamond goby, neon goby and flame angel

does feeling it often with prawn aids the recovery?

thanks

 

[snorvich]

flame angel might nip.

 

[pusanpa]

Check salinity or calibrate your salinity meter.
Mine did same thing when salinity was very high.

 

[Russ750]

I'd bet on the flame angel. Just pulled mine for the same reason. It caused no problems for over two years. Then one day I caught it nip an acan. From that point on, it was a menace. It started picking at every fleshy coral in the tank and actually got super aggressive with the other fish. Certainly test everything else, but keep a close eye on that flame.

 

[RobertK]

Are the clown fish using that coral for a surrogate anemone? I have a similar coral and my clown has adopted it as his home. I've had the coral for years and it has always thrived but it has recently started to decline. Everything else in the tank is fine and I am convinced that the clown is irritating it in some way and preventing it from thriving. I might be wrong (that did happen once before, but then it turned out I was right ), but that is my leading theory at present. Might have to yank it and see if it does better somewhere else, or somehow get the clown to stay off it (no idea how to do that!).
HTH

 

[briangg57]

about 3 or 4 years ago, my open brain bleached out completely and looked alot worst than yours due to my own carelessness but I fixed my water problem and feed it shrimp shavings and cyclop-eeze twice a week and after a few months it was as good as new. I still have him.

 

[dnsfpl]

will feed it with prawn meat twice a week

thanks for the info

 

[cloak]

Time?

 

[VacavilleFC3S]

whats your alkalinity and ph? other than being abit bleached it looks decently healthy

 

[K' Family Reef]

as long as its still eating then you should be good to go...
be sure to check all your water parameters... alk, ph, salinity, etc etc... oftentimes its best to cross the tests at the lfs due to several reasons.

good luck.

regards

 

[dnsfpl]

Re: Save My Brain Please

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15207945#post15207945 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dnsfpl

what could have cause this? any chance to recover?
anything i can do to aid its recovery?

thanks a million

is it better now?

 

[wschang812]

it definitely looks better now.