Been a while since I've posted any pictures of the acroporas. Despite the above issue with the magnet (and whatever impacted the corals), it looks like everything is going to make it.
This one is extremely durable and never showed any signs of stress; the only issue here was my wife breaking a large branch off the back during a power outage.
This demonstrated some odd behavior; the new growth (back left) remained an intense yellow while the main body started to brown out. Once I got a handle on the problem, the main body colored back up and the new growth lost all of its color.
I had lowered the lighting intensity a bit during while things were wonky and the rainbow delight wasn't a fan; it remained otherwise healthy the entire time and showed no signs of stress (this is one of the few times it hasn't shown good polyp extension actually).
The Tyree's pink lemonade acted like nothing happened; apparently this one is tough.
This unknown acro had a few small brown spots but colored right back up. Always has crazy polyp extension.
Another unknown that faired well; it lost a bit of color in a few spots but remained largely unchanged. It is an extremely slow grower for me.
The strawberry shortcake actually grew quite a bit during this mess and looked great (go figure).
The yellow tip had some color shifts during this period but continued to grow. It is starting to color back up now.
Reef Raft wolverine started to turn green out (with some brown as well) but made it through relatively unscathed. This one has also been an extremely slow grower; in all fairness it has been moved a number of times as.
The SC orange passion's polyps turned green and it lost some of the intense purple but otherwise remained good. The polyps have really started to show some orange the past week and a half, though it didn't photograph well.
This unknown green tenuis was hit extremely hard and I thought it was a total loss but left it in there just in case. After about two weeks, I started seeing some polyps popping back out. Though it bleached completely and did have some die off, about 75% of it remains alive and is starting to get some green back in it.
"Problem child" (unknown acropora) was hit the hardest with about 85% die off. I figured it was a goner as well but a few polyps remained. It browned out completely before STNing but the color has started to return rapidly and polyp extension is once again, fantastic. It is one of my favorites and I'm very happy it survived. I didn't trim it back because there are lone polyps on many of the branches so I'll just let it re-encrust on its own.
This unknown browned out but always looked pretty good and has been coloring back up pretty quickly.
The little smooth skin turned completely white and looked rough but returned to normal within a week and has some new growth.
Another unknown that was hit really hard. It browned out and then started to STN; it looks like the STN stopped about a week ago and it's starting to get some color back.
This monti cap was hit pretty hard, losing about 70% of it's tissue and bleached out. Most of the polyps remained (though retracted) so I figured it would rebound pretty quick; it didn't disappoint. Of interest, a bunch of flatworms took up residence and have remain on even after healing up (all the light spots you see). There have always been a number of them on the purple scroll but I never observed them on the monti. They dont seem to bug it and I have no intention of removing them unless they start (these are the things I love about the hobby).
Though polyp extension was reduced, the tubinaria was largely unharmed.
