Acro recovery after nipping

DesktopReefer · Apr 13, 2022

I have 3 new acro frags (2 Tenuis and 1 mille) in my tank. They’ve been in for a little over a week. They had great polyp extension on the first day in the tank. The day after adding them I caught my yellow clown goby nipping at the polyps on all 3 and he constantly laid in one of them. As you would expect, all 3 retracted their polyps completely 24/7 while the YCG was in the tank. After 4 days of nipping (Saturday) the YCG went back to the LFS. Monday I noticed the Mille had very tiny polyp extension but the 2 Tenuis didn’t have any. Fast forward to today and things are the same, tiny polyps on the Mille and non for the Tenuis.

Anyone have experience removing coral nippers and know how long until the corals got comfy enough to put out their polyps again. I don’t see any tissue damage and coloration is great.

Chrisv. · Apr 13, 2022

In an otherwise healthy tank, acros regenerate tissue extremely fast. Most recent example in my tank: a Miami hurricane stung a milli. It was a 1.5 inch frag with a fully encrusted plug. The plug had near full tissue loss…down to bare skeleton. Within 2-3 weeks it was healed.

reefnfun · Apr 14, 2022

I took my yellow clown goby back to the lfs too for the same reason. All the corals healed up quickly. You could try Acropower for polyp extension. it did wonders for my sps corals.

DesktopReefer · Apr 14, 2022

reefnfun said:
I took my yellow clown goby back to the lfs too for the same reason. All the corals healed up quickly. You could try Acropower for polyp extension. it did wonders for my sps corals.

That’s awesome to hear. I upped my AB+ dosing from 3 times a week to every day. We’ll see if that helps. Luckily the tissue is all still healthy and coloration is great.

I’m also dealing with low nutrients right now so I think that isn’t helping the PE.

Manny'sReef · Apr 30, 2022

I bought a ycg a few weeks ago and I noticed a couple of acros go through what I was told was RTN. Went white within hours. I lost 4 frags. I then heard about this issue with ycg and I caught him within 10 mins by putting the frags in an anemone box and he almost immediately was trying to figure out how to get in. When he figured out to get in through the top, he went to perch himself on the frags. I closed the lid and took out the frags. He's been in there for two days waiting to go back to the LFS that said they were reef safe. The frags don't look any worse than before I caught him.