Did your brown SPS bounce back?

d2mini · Mar 31, 2017

I had some vibrant, healthy SPS with great PE turn completely brown with very little PE from my dinos and tank teardown/restart.

Curious if you've had the same thing happen with your SPS that caused them to go brown on you and then saw full recovery?

PmRg · Mar 31, 2017

Yep... It will take time tough.... I have a Jason fox frag over here that survived all the way from US over here lol inside a shoe 10h flight... and 2 different tank "pass by" tanks .... Another 2h flight... Anyway... It's here now brown and no polyps for 3months

Now it's starting to colour up with at least 40% of the full PE ... Around 6months in my tank now...

joseserrano · Mar 31, 2017

they do, it just takes time, and stability. If you keep stressing them, they will eventually RTN or STN.

cb684 · Mar 31, 2017

Yes. As said before, it may take months. Usually, it takes about 2 months to color up for me, but I have a frag that took a whole year to get back to normal color.

Donovan Joannes · Mar 31, 2017

It will bounce back and color up once everything stabilized. How fast will depend on individual corals. Just monitor water parameters, give them adequate light of proper spectrum and they should be able to recover.

Abhishek · Apr 1, 2017

Definitely it will as long as water parameters are stable .I have a wild tort that came in amazing green and blue polyps but then STNed and I had to frag it .
Browned out but now in 2 months slowly coming back better than ever with neon blue polyps .Body is atill brown but showing signs of blue and green .
What I have found is - the less I move the sps and let them be in their place ,the better it is for them .
Am now experimenting with a completely browned out acro and monitoring it for the last 1 month .
Trying to replicate my experience.

Regards,
Abhishek

happyhourhero · Apr 1, 2017

This was Jan 8th when I got it from the discount pile at lfs. It since went through a move in a tub that I spiked the ammonia so bad it killed 2 montis, a birdsnest colony and a poci colony.

Last weekend.

Abhishek · Apr 2, 2017

happyhourhero said:
This was Jan 8th when I got it from the discount pile at lfs. It since went through a move in a tub that I spiked the ammonia so bad it killed 2 montis, a birdsnest colony and a poci colony.

Last weekend.

And may I ask how many times have you moved it after placing in the tank ?

Regards,
Abhishek

happyhourhero · Apr 2, 2017

Abhishek said:
And may I ask how many times have you moved it after placing in the tank ?

Regards,
Abhishek

Since I set my tank back up after moving 0. I usually place all my acros mid tank in high flow and mount them and leave them alone.

coralvault · Apr 2, 2017

yes but might take 6 months.

Mike220 · Apr 2, 2017

joseserrano said:
they do, it just takes time, and stability. If you keep stressing them, they will eventually RTN or STN.

Hello guys
What is stand for , PE, RTN , STN
Thanks

Reefrookie220 · Apr 2, 2017

Mike220 said:
Hello guys
What is stand for , PE, RTN , STN
Thanks

Polyp extension, rapid tissue necrosis, slow tissue necrosis.

happyhourhero · Apr 2, 2017

PE= polyp extension
RTN= Rapid Tissue Necrosis
STN= Slow Tissue Necrosis

Mike220 · Apr 2, 2017

happyhourhero said:
PE= polyp extension
RTN= Rapid Tissue Necrosis
STN= Slow Tissue Necrosis

Thank you

Reefrookie220 · Apr 2, 2017

@d2mini , I've just recently been bitten by the sps bug. And have limited experience.

But my local "guru" has done some amazing things with brown sticks!

He orders 24-lots wholesale, labeled as "brown acropora mariculture" granted he gets one good one of every 6 or so. But the transformations I've seen are nuts. But they take forever!

Abhishek · Apr 2, 2017

happyhourhero said:
Since I set my tank back up after moving 0. I usually place all my acros mid tank in high flow and mount them and leave them alone.

That has been exactly my experience too !! If I don't move or touch a browned acro , it comes back strong and faster . The more I keep my hands out of the danged water, the better they do !!

Regards,
Abhishek

Reefnub · Apr 3, 2017

Brown or bleached corals can always come back.
Just takes a lot of time and patience.
Tank conditions also need to be real stable.

Nickster135 · Apr 4, 2017

100% chance they can bounce back if your tank allows them to. I had a p04 spike that caused rtn and browning of my sps. Fixed the issue and kept my p04 stable and everything colored up after about 4 weeks.

markalot · Apr 4, 2017

6 months to a year for some. I have a maricultured piece that died back and I made to small frags. Both have tripled in size, both are dirt brown. When I got it the color was white with brilliant blue tips.