Advice on bring back an acropora

vence · Dec 28, 2018

My cousin almost kill 4 of his acros with his water parameters being off. Any advice on how to try to heal them quicker. One I think is a lost cause completely bleached out.

mtraylor · Dec 28, 2018

You havn't posted much of a background of what is going on with aquarium. But from the sounds of it, parms went awry and now you have the stable. Thats about it. There is not much more you can do. Keep the parms stable and that will be your fastest recovery.

You may want to post parms and background on which ones went awry

Stickboy15 · Dec 28, 2018

Tell us more information

vence · Dec 28, 2018

So my cousin had the 4 acro for about 2 months and he added a bunch of dried uncured live rock in his tank. Well one by one the corals begain bleaching out he thought he would just give it time. Well now they almost dead and he decided to give them to me since my tank are stable and I already have acros growing in my tank.

Stickboy15 · Dec 28, 2018

Pictures is is bleaching or stn?

vence · Dec 28, 2018

These are the 4

mtraylor · Dec 28, 2018

The 2 white ones are STN'd. There is no recovery. They are dead.
The other two. You will need to leave them alone and see if they recover.

Stickboy15 · Dec 28, 2018

That’s not bleached that’s stn, bleached is when you expose the coral to too much light to fast and it still has polyps just white. Stn is when it’s dying and losing tissue if you keep acros I would hope you know the difference.

Stickboy15 · Dec 28, 2018

The top one I can’t tell if it has polyps or not due to the picture

lolgranny · Dec 28, 2018

Dry rock shouldn’t shift any params unless it was old dead live rock and the die off is causing a spike in ammonia / no3 / po4.

Regardless, those 2 are dead. The others your best bet is to snip off the live and glue them to a new a new plug.

DesertReefT4r · Dec 28, 2018

2nd and 3rd are dead, well 2nd has some tissue at the base on the left side 3rd look totally dead to me. Not bleaching that is STN. Keep water stable and the 1st and 4th should slowly recover.