Place your bets ;) bleached WD

Crabs McJones · Oct 15, 2018

following! I so very badly want it to recover for you. WD is one of my favorite acros. I think with alot of hard work, it can recover. I had a strawberry shortcake acro that I thought FOR SURE was dead. So sure that I broke it off the rock and threw it away. Recently I was looking through my tank and where that acro was I see a little spot of pink. Sure enough the encrusting survived and its growing back. I was blown away at how resilient that coral is. Fingers crossed, good luck!

speedstar · Oct 15, 2018

Crabs Mcjones said:
following! I so very badly want it to recover for you. WD is one of my favorite acros. I think with alot of hard work, it can recover. I had a strawberry shortcake acro that I thought FOR SURE was dead. So sure that I broke it off the rock and threw it away. Recently I was looking through my tank and where that acro was I see a little spot of pink. Sure enough the encrusting survived and its growing back. I was blown away at how resilient that coral is. Fingers crossed, good luck!

Thanks just kicking myself for my mistake, teach me to leave reefing for 10 years. I have made so many mistake starting over. Chances are slim, but hopefully it will darken up over the next month or else well lesson learned either way.

Crabs McJones · Oct 15, 2018

speedstar said:
Thanks just kicking myself for my mistake, teach me to leave reefing for 10 years. I have made so many mistake starting over. Chances are slim, but hopefully it will darken up over the next month or else well lesson learned either way.

I dont like to call them mistakes, I prefer "learning experience"

DesertReefT4r · Oct 16, 2018

Man looks pretty dead to me, not seeing any flesh on it not great pics though.

Mirkus · Oct 16, 2018

speedstar said:
Thanks just kicking myself for my mistake, teach me to leave reefing for 10 years. I have made so many mistake starting over. Chances are slim, but hopefully it will darken up over the next month or else well lesson learned either way.

Sorry to tell you, that bad boy won’t be darkening up anytime soon. It’s 99.8% dead. If you get lucky and it survives you get to regrow it!

speedstar · Oct 16, 2018

Well it isn't completely dead saw multiple mesenterial filaments come out today when I feed the tank a heavy mix of stuff.

Sense of nature · Oct 16, 2018

Best of luck!

ScottB · Oct 17, 2018

There is a fine line between bleaching and going pale. I got stupid (more than once) while ramping UP lighting and lowering nutrient at the same time. You live, they die, you learn.

Most all my SPS frags went pale and a few bleached. Thankfully it was T5 lighting or it would have been worse. It was a frag tank so it was easy to view the frags with a 25X lense that made the odds easier to place.

From your pics tho, I think your WD has better shot than most of the above odds. There is still flesh on the skeleton. I lost about 1 in five frags; but my WD survived!