Scoly chances of survival??

[Mrod]

Just been thru my worst experience and hopefully tank is settling down finally. Has anyone seen a scoly ever recover when as bad as mine looks right now?

Would love some hope if anyone has ever brought one back from the brink of death.

 

[P-Dub]

There is still viable tissue and the colors are good. There is hope. Had a trachy look like that and come back from the brink. Stable parameters are key now.

 

[tupes]

Standard questions

How old is the tank?
What are your parameters?
How long have you had the Scoly ?
Did anything change or did you add something new just before this started?

Without common answers it' difficult to advise what to do.

There is a good amount of tissue left so there is a chance.

 

[Mrod]

That’s a loaded question, lol. On my tank build I list all the issues, too much to rewrite here but do believe all is hopefully back to normal now.

Feeding- best to wait until it looks better I am assuming.

Sorry for the redirection, just been a terrible week of overcoming my first ever crash type experience, lessons learned the hard way.

 

[Dsnakes]

Dependent on the tank parameters... It should recover. I've had a Scoly do the exact same when I was getting my water stable.

 

[fyler83]

Should recover from this fine spot feeding will help as well as stable parameters make sure it's not getting beat with flow also

 

[Leadfooted]

Your GSP worry me being so close to the scoly. D0n't they sting it?

 

[Mrod]

Nope. Those are clove polyps and I first worried when they got close but seem to be no harm ever.

One day I am trying to remove them also but don’t have the energy right now. My biggest regrets putting in my tank were the palythoa and clove polyps as once in almost impossible to get out easily now.

Really love the colors on the scoly and hope it recovers. It wasn’t in great shape when given to me by a fellow Reefer but it was improving a lot in my tank prior to this recent episode.

 

[DSC reef]

It can recover but I'd move it away from the clove polyps. That's a nice scoly

 

[Mrod]

I’m overruled and thus will address the clove polyp concern I’m seeing posted.

However instead of moving the scoly I will use tweezers to peel off the polyps tonight. Moving the scoly might be more stress as it is glued on and also in a great spot in terms of flow & light and not many choices left in my small tank otherwise.

Hopefully the polyps peel off easily and I also don’t want them growing onto the exposed skeleton edges of the scoly as I rethought my initial opinion based on all your great feedback.

 

[DSC reef]

In the future try to refrain from gluing a coral until you know it's in a happy spot so if you need to move it it can be done easily. Sometimes it takes a bit to find a good spot for LPS between light and flow IME. Keep us posted on the recovery.

 

[Leadfooted]

Can you share a better picture of your polyps were talking about? I have some polyps next to a blasto and they get a long just fine. I did notice however, once the polyps reached the Blasto, the Blasto stopped growing, seems to have stalled out for about a year now. Here's mine during a little aptasia battle.

 

[An ngo]

I think you should move away from softies and strong flow at this time. I have same issue dew days ago, but it recover very well when move into shade and low flow. Hope this help

 

[Sea MunnKey]

Not sure how long your Scoly has been like this but judging from the gaping mouth, it might not look that great. I'm speaking from past experiences and yes ... when they're retracted, the colors looks "enhanced" ... but then I hope it pulls through. Just try not to handle it too much at this point.

 

[Mrod]

Later tonight I’ll try to get better pics of the polyps and hopefully clear some away.

It’s actually in a nice low flow and lower light area where at now.

Seemunkey- yes, the gaping mouth is what concerns me the most and almost looks like not much inside so not very optimistic but doing what I can. My tank thread gives more details, while not positive think it was mostly vibrant that caused this unexpected rapid tank crash that I’m just recovering from. Guess it’s true that every tank reacts different and I regret even trying it.

 

[Mrod]

Leadfooted, here is a close up. Unfortunately I can’t see the scoly recovering but not giving up.

Scoly looks worse but rest of tank and corals looking better so just trying to not do anything else at this point other than maintaining good paramaters.

 

[doodledreads]

Do not try to feed it forcibly. Does more harm than good.

What is your water temp?

 

[Saltyanimals]

I don’t know if you can feed if forcefully. It either eats or not. You don’t seem to show skeletory recession. I have 3 scolys. One was badly bleached. Not sure how since the other two were fine. However I put the sick one in a lower flow lower light and just left it alone for almost 6 weeks. Slowly came back.