SPS Warfare?!?!?

[gofor100]

Hello Everyone,

Relatively new to keeping SPS/Acros and have been collecting frags for the last couple of months. Unfortunately, this means that a lot of the pieces are not in their permanent spot and are left there unattached to the rockwork.

This lead to my Oregon Blue Tort tipping over (last night) and stumbling onto my Pink Millepora... unfortunately, it looks like the Pink Mille was winning the battle since one of the Blue Torts branches was white when I found it this morning. :uzi:

The good news is that it seemed to have only affected that one branch of the Oregon Blue... my question is "Should I break off the white branch in hopes that any tissue recession does not spread or leave it as is and wait it out a little"?

It is a pretty small frag that was looking great before the mishap, which is why I'm not sure if waiting it out would be a great idea since if it does spread any more, then it would basically ruin the whole frag.

Any guidance???

Thanks in advance for you help!

 

[AquamanE]

wait it out. it should be fine.

 

[gofor100]

Good to hear... the tort was one of my favorite frags, and of course it was the one that lost the battle.

Should it just start coloring back up over time (I haven't seen it yet since I've been work all day), if so, how long does it usually take?

Thanks again for the response,

Chad

 

[redfishsc]

I do know that most acros (whether tort or millepora) will whip any montipora that I've seen.

Although I've not seen anything that would outsting a hydnophora. I've laid hydnophora frags onto aiptasias before, which seemed to kill them. They always disappear (with others to pop up in other locations, as always).