Place your bets ;) bleached WD

[speedstar]

Here is my walt disney that severely bleached after a lighting mishap. It is starting to get some color brown returning and I have scene some polyp action on occasion. Really hoping this one makes it.

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

I think the color on the bottom 3/4 is algae growing on dead skeleton.

 

[Reefpilot]

Ouch! thats painful. Might be algae as well. Feel the frag, if its really rough, its dead. If not you may have a shot! Good luck!

 

[speedstar]

I think the color on the bottom 3/4 is algae growing on dead skeleton.

It was actually in a high po4 system and the skeleton wasn't ever white in the lower area. There is a brown slitghtly showing at all the coralites, best scene under just UV

I'll try n get a pic after lights out

 

[DSC reef]

I think the color on the bottom 3/4 is algae growing on dead skeleton.

I agree, the bottom of the coral looks dead.

 

[Alfrareef]

I think the color on the bottom 3/4 is algae growing on dead skeleton.

+1 let’s wait 1-2 days...

 

[TheHarold]

Sorry bud, that bit of green appears to be algae. Photo isn't great though

 

[speedstar]

Time will tell but when it bleached completely the base was this greenish color, its been this way for 2 plus weeks with not algae growing on it. I'll update this thread weekly with hopefully a better pic.

 

[Alfrareef]

Time will tell but when it bleached completely the base was this greenish color, its been this way for 2 plus weeks with not algae growing on it. I'll update this thread weekly with hopefully a better pic.

Perhaps with high flow the algaes can’t take the outside skeleton so fast, but with that look and size I haven’t recovered any.

 

[KrisReef]

Here is my walt disney ,... Really hoping this one makes it.

Mine looks exactly like this, except it is dry in my lost coral pile in the backyard.

Why do all the expensive specimens die first in a disaster? Meanwhile, my Pavona cactus, poci, and GSP are thriving. I wish you well in your redemption of this Walt Disney bleached frag.

 

[TheHarold]

Mine looks exactly like this, except it is dry in my lost coral pile in the backyard.

Why do all the expensive specimens die first in a disaster? Meanwhile, my Pavona cactus, poci, and GSP are thriving. I wish you well in your redemption of this Walt Disney bleached frag.

Well, that was probably a rhetorical question, but expensive specimen tend to be those which are less common, which tend to be those which are more difficult (or slower) to grow or sustain.

So so expensive specimens die easily?

Or do those that die easily become expensive?

Headache time

edit:

Is there any actually betting going on? Because if so, I am in. 10 to 1?

 

[Flippers4pups]

@speedstar, Coralites look intact all the way down, so there still hope. If tissue is present and it looks like it's there, it will take some time for the zooxanthellae to recover.

Be aware that it may never look the same once recovered. I say may.

I would lower your light intensity for a few weeks or shorten your photoperiod by a couple hours to give the zooxanthellae time to repopulate.

Best of luck!

 

[speedstar]

@speedstar, Coralites look intact all the way down, so there still hope. If tissue is present and it looks like it's there, it will take some time for the zooxanthellae to recover.

Be aware that it may never look the same once recovered. I say may.

I would lower your light intensity for a few weeks or shorten your photoperiod by a couple hours to give the zooxanthellae time to repopulate.

Best of luck!

Thanks three weeks back I added some screen sections shading it, been slowly removing one every couple days. I have scene it go from the tips stark white to tinge of brown. I realize the pic was terrible above, but the green has been there from the get go of the bleech, I feel do to high po4 system it was in. Time will tell

 

[Flippers4pups]

Thanks three weeks back I added some screen sections shading it, been slowly removing one every couple days. I have scene it go from the tips stark white to tinge of brown. I realize the pic was terrible above, but the green has been there from the get go of the bleech, I feel do to high po4 system it was in. Time will tell

Yes time will tell. Keep your flow the same.

Your doing all you can do at this point. Bravo!

 

[speedstar]

Not much better, but my camera battery just died. If you watch this video you will see a polyp or two in the lower what could be dead area. Be sure your in HD or else it is impossible to see.

 

[mannyhernz]

Only way to tell for sure is out of water.
But it does look grimm for that frag.

 

[speedstar]

Only way to tell for sure is out of water.
But it does look grimm for that frag.

By no means do I think it looks good, but I have found that many give up on SPS too soon assuming they are gone. To me is there isn't algae growing on it there is still hope. Even though as mentioned I have had some remain brown for years and never return to color after high stress.

 

[speedstar]

Better Pictures, i think some tissue is still present and now darkening.

Or it is dead

 

[Mirkus]

it's not looking good for that frag. With that said, I have had a coral return from the "dead".

 

[Richgoose]

Popcorn

17:3 odds at this point