Brown tips, cut or not?

[EmdeReef]

Got this guy (blue/purple tort?) from a lfs today for free, it was in their “discard” bin but looks like there may be hope. Sorry for bad photos. I’ve looked at it under a magnifier and dipped in revive, found nothing. I also trust these guys quite a bit to have pest free tanks as they aquaculture almost everything. The brown tips have algae growing. Some tips are unaffected. They did have a power outage during the snowstorm at the store so perhaps alk caused?

Would appreciate help. Should I cut the affected tips or let it be? Anything else to do? I have it in my 40g shallow frag tank and it runs at 8-8.5dKh, ca 440, Mg 1200-1400 (I can’t tell), 10ish nitrates and ~0.08 PO4. 1 gyre 230 and a hydra 52hd. Thanks!

 

[Kamden Uelton]

If the tips are brown from algae I'd cut them off.

 

[tdileo]

I’d cut or scrub good with a toothbrush at least.

 

[EmdeReef]

Thanks!

 

[adtravels]

If your parameters improve and the coral becomes"happy" the tissue will regrow over the tips.

 

[Dobermanp]

Always had the best luck cutting dead tips off.

 

[Yas]

Could be a great addition. Yesterday, I stumbled upon an amazing acro at my lfs and bought it. According to them, it had terrible coloration and nobody touched it for 4 months! So they moved it to another tank with different lighting and it became a real beauty, and she finally got my eyes! Hope yours turns like it.

 

[EmdeReef]

Thanks everyone! Appreciate it, I’m hoping it pulls through

 

[jda]

Do not snip them until the coral is otherwise doing well, but they will heal and grow new tissue faster than they will grow over old skeleton. I would snip them off.

 

[EmdeReef]

Do not snip them until the coral is otherwise doing well, but they will heal and grow new tissue faster than they will grow over old skeleton. I would snip them off.

Thx, I’ll wait a few more days. FWIW at least it didn’t get worse overnight...

 

[madweazl]

Do you have other acroporas in the tank? If so, are they doing well? Provided they're healthy, this one will re-encrust pretty quickly. This little guy was in a bad way but recovered. Today you'd never know there was a problem.

 

[EmdeReef]

Do you have other acroporas in the tank? If so, are they doing well? Provided they're healthy, this one will re-encrust pretty quickly. This little guy was in a bad way but recovered. Today you'd never know there was a problem.

Wow that looks great.

4 other frags in the same tank, all have been doing well for about 2mos now, encrusting and good PE.