2 Questions. 1 Thread.

[terraincognita]

1. While I have lots of experience with softies and LPS. This is my first SPS run.

It went through a 77-87-74 temp swing :-( and unfortunately it wasn’t fun. It was 121F where I live over the weekend.

One of my acro frags which was already weakened bleached but the very tip.

had some other small ones after that so I moved it from my 10G to my 45 which is stable. Unfortunately that killed the last 3 mm on flesh on his t

I got a temp controller now on the 10G.But I don’t want to move him back until he’s healthy.

well.... really my Q is will he recover? There’s still green pigment where he bleached and lost all his flesh. It SEEMS to be getting more color but it’s only been 5 days.....

or should I just ditch the frag now?



2. I had aiptasia on the bottom of a frag plug. Has anyone ever used coral revive/H202 only to kill it? Dipped for 5 minutes in pretty high concentrate solution.

Also superglued over the 2 big ones but couldn’t really make out what was what after they all closed. So didn’t wanna just super glue the whole frag bottom but guess I could if the above won’t kill them.

thanks in advanced!

Pre swing

Now:

 

[Miller535]

I don't know about recovering, but the safest thing to do (for the aiptasia) is to cut the acro off of the plug and glue it to a new plug.

 

[Reefer40b]

That frag is dead and covered in algae...

 

[terraincognita]

That frag is dead and covered in algae...

There's a little bit of brown/red algae on the tips I scraped my glass before I took the photo.

It's really hard to get in the photo, but the green you're seeing is not algae, it wont rub off/scrub off.

It might not make sense??? but I can guarantee there's a pigment underneath the skeleton.

It might be just continuing to die? Idk, maybe it's a super slow death and it's just on the way out.

I can't tell if it's getting better or worse, just wondering if anyone has ever brought something this far gone back?

 

[Reefer40b]

There's a little bit of algae on the tips I scraped my glass before I took the photo.

It's really hard to get in the photo, but there's still a bright green pigment from inside the skeleton. That green pigment is NOT from algae, any algae is just that brown stringy.

It might not make sense but I can guarantee there's a pigment underneath the skeleton.

I can't see that from your pictures, but if their is still pigment/tissue then it has a chance, it will take forever from where its at but will enough patience it may come back..

 

[terraincognita]

I can't see that from your pictures, but if their is still pigment/tissue then it has a chance, it will take forever from where its at but will enough patience it may come back..

It might be just continuing to die? Idk, maybe it's a super slow death and it's just on the way out.

I can't tell if it's getting better or worse, just wondering if anyone has ever brought something this far gone back?

 

[terraincognita]

I don't know about recovering, but the safest thing to do (for the aiptasia) is to cut the acro off of the plug and glue it to a new plug.

Im going to remove it from the plug probably actually and then just glue it directly.

I guess I'm just worried if maybe some tiny spore is on the rock skeleton connected to the frag. It was a bigger frag that died back more after being fragged and didn't re-grow, so there's some skeleton definitely it will grow back over. Just hope there's no pesky pests on it before it does.

 

[Reefer40b]

It might be just continuing to die? Idk, maybe it's a super slow death and it's just on the way out.

I can't tell if it's getting better or worse, just wondering if anyone has ever brought something this far gone back?

I have grown things back from a single polyp before, time will tell. Best to keep tank rock steady.

 

[terraincognita]

I have grown things back from a single polyp before, time will tell. Best to keep tank rock steady.

Thanks very much.

 

[terraincognita]

I just saw a bunch of little brown critters crawling all over this thing I never noticed until now.

Not sure what they are but I decided it was only a $20 frag and not worth it in-case they were a parasite and my 4 other SPS frags next to it were to get infected.

If you know plz let me know?? They were crawling as fast as scurrying ants, and going all over. there was 6 or 7 of them. (Could've just been pods cleaning up dead tissue)

Since I'm trashing I scrubbed and cleaned it with a fingernail brush and this was the final color by the way.

maybe it is algae but I assume vigorous scrubbing would remove it??

it’s only been dead for 4 days so I didn’t imagine this type of algal growth??