Sps Help! Skin blown off

[sanchoy]

I accidentally placed one of my sps corals too close to the vortech under tow flow, the flow was strong enough to strip and peel the skin off 2/3 of the coral. Will it survive or is it junk now. Any help will help.

 

[SeedlessOne]

Sounds like rtn. Frag as far away from the tissue loss to save the frag. Can you post a pic?

 

[epicurus84]

as long as it has a tiny bit of tissue it can survice. If possible frag it and keep a whole piece that way algea doesn't have a chance to overgrow it.

 

[sanchoy]

I do not believe it to be rtn. I just moved it to a different location in the tank. Only one side was ripped clean of the skin tissue where the current was the strongest. I thought it will be strong enough to withstand, I guess I'll frag what's left. Could be a goner.

 

[wonderz]

SPS are just finicky. As long as you have some healthy tissues left, the coral will grow back, but sometimes they just loses more and more tissues everyday.

 

[Allmost]

I have SPS growing in front of MP60 ....

depends on the coral species too though.

 

[Fieroguy19]

Not all SPS can take very strong flow. If you want to place a coral near the MP40 then you need to acclimate it to the strong flow. When I needed to place a coral near the MP40 I turned it down to 40% and then slowly over two weeks turned it back up to 100%. The coral showed no signs of stress doing it this way.

 

[sanchoy]

Goner