Are my corals dead?

[Yanay]

I have a 2 head torch and an acan my friend gave me because she didn’t know what to do with them her tank was only a day old so definitely not ready for corals she didn’t even have a light and said they just went down hill. So she gave them to me to see if they’d get better but will they? I don’t know if their already dead and if they are if they’ll come back please help I don’t know what to do I don’t want them to affect my tank either.
Parameters:
Ph 8.0
Salinity 1.024
Nitrates, nitrites, ammonia 0

 

[chowwil]

Sorry to say, but they look dead. Don't see any flesh of coral left. Did you have that powerhead blowing directly at it. That might of killed it since it was already weaken.

 

[Yanay]

No I literally just placed them in my tank, is there any way of them coming back or there’s no hope for them?

 

[Realposition]

Sorry but they are definitely dead. The bright side is they wont affect your tank in any notable way.

 

[Yanay]

So leaving them in would it doing anything negatively or positively to my tank?

 

[Uncle99]

Nope, dead coral skeleton will hurt nothing.

 

[Yanay]

Nope, dead coral skeleton will hurt nothing.

What about a Duncan? She also gave me on and it has like a slime where the polyps should be not sure what it is

 

[Nikita1981]

Not to be rude, but how old is your tank? It does not take a very experienced reefer to recognize a dead coral. The stuff on the duncan is probably brown jelly or dead tissue and can polute your tank or infect other corals. Please post a picture of it and your tank. Without pictures it is hard to tell but probably best if you take it out asap.

 

[chowwil]

Euphyllias (torch) sometimes will regenerate back, depending on the quality of water conditions. I only had this happed once. Not sure about the Duncans

 

[Yanay]

Not to be rude, but how old is your tank? It does not take a very experienced reefer to recognize a dead coral. The stuff on the duncan is probably brown jelly or dead tissue and can polute your tank or infect other corals. Please post a picture of it and your tank. Without pictures it is hard to tell but probably best if you take it out asap.

The tank has been running for like 2 years but I just started with corals like a month ago so that’s why I ask because I don’t know much about them yet I assumed they were dead just wanted advice from people who know

 

[Yanay]

Euphyllias (torch) sometimes will regenerate back, depending on the quality of water conditions. I only had this happed once. Not sure about the Duncans

Euphyllias (torch) sometimes will regenerate back, depending on the quality of water conditions. I only had this happed once. Not sure about the Duncans

if it was to regenerate how long more or less would that take?

 

[chowwil]

if it was to regenerate how long more or less would that take?

In my experience, I saw new growth 2 weeks after, but if you see algae growing on the skeleton, it's gone.

 

[Yanay]

In my experience, I saw new growth 2 weeks after, but if you see algae growing on the skeleton, it's gone.

So as soon as algae is showing just toss it? If no algae then it has a chance still? And is that for just the torch or the same goes for the acan?

 

[Michael Naegeli]

No chance. Those r toast. So sorry

 

[Stigigemla]

In order to keep stone corals You must know and keep your water values in order.
I begin with the most important.
Temp, salinity, kH, Ca, Mg, After them P or PO4 and NO3 and maybe K and I.
If any one value of temp to PO4 is very wrong it can kill Your corals in a day. No or to high NO3 can kill Your corals too but that will usually take a few weeks.