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[Bitcoin Reefer]

This coral was damaged pretty badly by the Tropic Marin Turkish salt issue. It seems to have stabilized now after months of salt change. 4 33% water changes + 1 10% change.

do you guys think it can push out the algae that took over the dead skeleton exposed parts? Will it someday fully cover the rock again? Should I do something to help it? It was my favorite coral before

all we’ve been doing is pulling the hair algae when it gets long. Oddly some parts will get long hair algae and some stay very short, as if there is still some anti algae chemical being released on those parts, like the small triangle section on the right. That doesn’t get long like the other parts on left.

 

[blaxsun]

This must've looked just amazing in its prime!

 

[Bitcoin Reefer]

This must've looked just amazing in its prime!

Oh man it really did bro. I think we paid $160 for it. It was stunning. Got it from Amazing Aquariums & Reefs in City of Orange, Southern California (Orange County). They’re my favorite coral shop around So Cal.

 

[Bitcoin Reefer]

Bumpidy dumpidy!

 

[Tired]

Corals grow over whatever rock is around them, including old skeleton. It won't fill the old skeleton back in with new flesh, but it'll treat the old skeleton as a new surface to grow on, and it should be able to grow right over the algae.

 

[Bitcoin Reefer]

Corals grow over whatever rock is around them, including old skeleton. It won't fill the old skeleton back in with new flesh, but it'll treat the old skeleton as a new surface to grow on, and it should be able to grow right over the algae.

Thank you so much

 

[Bitcoin Reefer]

Corals grow over whatever rock is around them, including old skeleton. It won't fill the old skeleton back in with new flesh, but it'll treat the old skeleton as a new surface to grow on, and it should be able to grow right over the algae.

Perfectly what I was wondering. Interesting.

 

[Mikedawg]

Yeah, should just be a matter of time before it fully recovers. Good luck

 

[Bitcoin Reefer]

Thanks! That will be awesome because I love this coral so much lol.

 

[Tired]

Check out this favites that nearly died on me from a palytoxin incident.

That's a year's difference. Now, mine, as you can see, broke into multiple pieces when the flesh between died. If you look really, really closely in person, you can kinda see that it's multiple frags blended together, but it's still perfectly healthy. It grew clean over all that skeleton (which was really cool to see- look how paper-thin it is! You can see the algae underneath!) and covered the entire frag plug.

 

[Bitcoin Reefer]

Check out this favites that nearly died on me from a palytoxin incident.

That's a year's difference. Now, mine, as you can see, broke into multiple pieces when the flesh between died. If you look really, really closely in person, you can kinda see that it's multiple frags blended together, but it's still perfectly healthy. It grew clean over all that skeleton (which was really cool to see- look how paper-thin it is! You can see the algae underneath!) and covered the entire frag plug.

Wow how cool! Thanks for sharing some hope!

 

[Tired]

No problem. Looks to me like you have a perfectly healthy coral that just needs some time to recover. It might be a bit weird-shaped, but oh well.

Pulling long hair algae seems like a good plan. it can annoy corals by touching them.

Keep an eye on any patches that don't grow algae. Corals, especially LPS, are known to regenerate from hidden scraps of flesh inside their skeletons. That patch might still have some life alive and kicking.

 

[encrustingacro]

Corals grow over whatever rock is around them, including old skeleton. It won't fill the old skeleton back in with new flesh, but it'll treat the old skeleton as a new surface to grow on, and it should be able to grow right over the algae.

Some corals, such as porites, can grow back from dead skeleton and fill back the old skeleton.

 

[Tired]

Like, they creep the new flesh into the crevices of the old skeleton somehow? Assuming we're talking about DEAD skeleton, not skeleton that looks dead but has living cells inside.

 

[Bitcoin Reefer]

So interestingly, I feel like some of the skeleton patches might have some life left in them, since the algae is struggling to grow on them and stays very short, as opposed to some patches where the GHA grows super long and fast.

 

[Tired]

Could be! Clearly you have lots of life still visible, but there might be some sneaky areas as well.

 

[Bitcoin Reefer]

Ya here are some better lighting photos from today