Help me nurture these poor corals back to life.

Zeal · Jun 18, 2018

So I went to a LFS near me and saw a kinda sad looking Meteor Shower Cyphastrea. I decided to buy it and attempt to give it some tender loving care. Its been in my tank for about.. 8 hours now.

I also got a Hollywood stunner from a local guy trying to get rid of some pieces. Seems also a bit sad and in need of TLC. Currently they're all around maybe.. 2 inches from the top. Not sure what I can do with flow to maybe help the healing process. I'm running almighty Radions lights but these guys are way off in the corner. So far the only thing I can see being a issue is the flow? Seems to be kinda strong in that general area.. even near the top.

Tomorrow morning they'll be receiving some good ol breakfast filled with vitamins and roidssssssss

Edit: moved the frag holder down about 6 inches. Adjusted the wavemaker a bit.

Reeferdood · Jun 18, 2018

I would put them both much lower in your tank, they are not very fond of bright lights.
What are you running your nitrates and phosphates at? Unless you are running a ULNS you will want traces of both to keep from starving them..
Best of luck with them!

Zeal · Jun 18, 2018

Reeferdood said:
I would put them both much lower in your tank, they are not very fond of bright lights.
What are you running your nitrates and phosphates at? Unless you are running a ULNS you will want traces of both to keep from starving them..
Best of luck with them!

Moved the meteor shower to the farrrrr right corner of my tank in the front and it has its own egg crate stand.

Did a water change yesterday so I'm sure my nitrates are low but I just did a nice feeding to the tank with Polyp booster, followed by read Sea Energy A/B then Aquavitra Fuel then a fish food I made mixed with Mysis, brine, reefeoids Aquaforst vitamins and some seachem zooplankton and phytoplankton

This will be it's home for the next couple months

Brian1f1 · Jun 19, 2018

Meteor shower is the only coral I’ve had real trouble with since I got back into the hobby. It was a LA aquacultured one. Immediately (within hours) sloughed off it’s blue, the polyps browned out over the course of a couple days. It was in the bottom of a big tank in a cave with the lights on acclimate. Darn things still alive two months later. Looks like maybe it might be coming back kind of in some fashion? Idk, still looks like hell. That said, it seems possible to make them ugly AF, but maybe impossible to kill lol.

Left is now, right is six weeks ago.

Zeal · Jun 19, 2018

Brian1f1 said:
Meteor shower is the only coral I’ve had real trouble with since I got back into the hobby. It was a LA aquacultured one. Immediately (within hours) sloughed off it’s blue, the polyps browned out over the course of a couple days. It was in the bottom of a big tank in a cave with the lights on acclimate. Darn things still alive two months later. Looks like maybe it might be coming back kind of in some fashion? Idk, still looks like hell. That said, it seems possible to make them ugly AF, but maybe impossible to kill lol.

Left is now, right is six weeks ago.

Luckly my polyps are extending and a nice color. I think it'll recover just needs some tlc. Was thinking of building a little egg crate cage aorund it so no snails or hermits bother it

Zeal · Jun 19, 2018

I really want this coral to heal I have a beautifully shipped rock that I want it to encrut

Zeal · Jun 23, 2018

Massive progress these past couple days. Almost fully covered

Brian1f1 · Jun 23, 2018

Nice! Mine is maybe but sooo slow. Latest,

I guess you can tell it has polyps now at least? Ha

Zeal · Jun 23, 2018

Brian1f1 said:
Nice! Mine is maybe but sooo slow. Latest,

I guess you can tell it has polyps now at least? Ha

Not gonna lie dude that picture is terrible LOL

Brian1f1 · Jun 23, 2018

Zeal said:
Not gonna lie dude that picture is terrible LOL

What? No, it’s beautiful in its own very special way! Haha. LA did credit it right away, weeks ago, dude was like that’s definitely not going to come back the way it’s supposed to be, Godspeed.

It’s never had any polyp extension in two months. It’s looked basically like this. I have no idea how it’s alive, what it’s doing, but it seems to remain an unrecognizable, yet undead, lump.

DMG Reef · Jun 24, 2018

My Hollywood Stunner does great in high light. He gets blasted with the same PAR as my acros. Grows like a weed so you probably won't have any problems with it. But as it grows, be careful how close it is to other corals. HS is very aggressive and always wins.

Zeal · Jun 24, 2018

Kattkrazie said:
My Hollywood Stunner does great in high light. He gets blasted with the same PAR as my acros. Grows like a weed so you probably won't have any problems with it. But as it grows, be careful how close it is to other corals. HS is very aggressive and always wins.

I have him also on a frag rack, his stinging tentacles also face away from everything

DMG Reef · Jun 24, 2018

Zeal said:
I have him also on a frag rack, his stinging tentacles also face away from everything

The tentacles come out about 15 min. after lights go out and they reach about 2" in every direction. Looks pretty cool.

Zeal · Jul 8, 2018

Update!
Little bit of algae is growing on the skeleton but there's usually a hermit ontop of the coral eating it. Had made tons of progress this past couple weeks. Colors are starting to slowly show under blue.

Polyps look nice and enlarged

Zeal · Jul 12, 2018

Zeal said:
Update!
Little bit of algae is growing on the skeleton but there's usually a hermit ontop of the coral eating it. Had made tons of progress this past couple weeks. Colors are starting to slowly show under blue.

Polyps look nice and enlarged

More updates, that beautiful baby blue is starting to show under blues now. Slowly healing! I'm surprised it was able to recover