Trachyphyllia Geoffroyi recovery question

[selje]

Hope some of you can help me with this one here.

I had this great TG that I was very happy with. Then I introduced a little angel that almost killed mi TG. MY question is: will this coral ever get the colors that it first had?

This is a picture before it got nipped on (12/12 2010):

It looked like this after the angel nipped on it. It looks bleached too (26/01 2011).

This is in april 2011. It still look kinda like this, but it's more retracted.

Is it still hope for this one? I try to feed it, but it will only eat small portions of artemia/mysis.

And yes, the angel that nips is out of the tank! My water values are ok. The GT is on the bottom. I have 6x80w ATI T5 lighting and the GT are about 75cm below the lights (the aquaria is 60cm in height).

 

[Alkamist]

i have one that had gotten nipped also a few months ago and its still alive just hasn't gotten its color back but as long as its inflating and not showing skeleton it all recover. do you feed it?

 

[Alkamist]

heres a pic of mine before it got nipped and how it looks now that i'm trying to bring it back.

 

[mrk88]

I dont think its bleaching cause it got nipped probably lighting or water quality

 

[Finsky]

Space between a green and red Trachyphyllia geoffroyi

Space between a green and red Trachyphyllia geoffroyi

I recently purchased one red and one green Trachyphyllia geoffroyi. They are about three inches in diameter. How far should they be kept apart on the front crushed coral substrate?

 

[Finsky]

Trachyphyllia radiata or Trachyphyllia geoffroyi?

I feed my tank Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with Kent Marine Phytoplex, Chromplex, Zooplex, and Microvert along with Vita-Chem, Selcon, and Vitamin-C.

 

[ati70cutlass]

def. a light situation going on with the bleaching. i always put a pvc pipe under my welso and it really helped

 

[sqwat]

Trachyphyllia radiata or Trachyphyllia geoffroyi?

I feed my tank Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with Kent Marine Phytoplex, Chromplex, Zooplex, and Microvert along with Vita-Chem, Selcon, and Vitamin-C.

+1 i feed mine only very small pieces of clam or shrimp meat adn mysis.i also broadcast feed with phyto and zoo with pureed clam and shrimp evry night.i have a geophry that can eaT large pieces of meat and my radiata that only eats very small pieces even though he is allot bigger.anything larger then his mouth when closed he spits up and the geophry can eat anything the size of him and he has i dont no why any of this is but that is what reef keeping is about observation is key.the geophry bleached when i changed tanks but he caME BACK AFTER I PUT HIM IN THE SHADE and fed him daily also kept my iron to the maximum till he regained his color . i dont no about you guys aND youre tanks but mine eats up iron maybe it is the fuge but it goes down so fast i must dose once a week.b4 i realised this my colors colors were very dull but once i started to bring the iron up colores popped and my almost dead gonipora came back to life and my trachy geophry gained back his color.also my lta turned so purple it is so sweet looking.