scoly help, bleaching?

[GSnake]

hi,
i got a bleeding apple scoly about a month ago and it been downhill very slowly, its losing its color and has never had its tentacles out. the green is very pale now.

i tried feeding it pellets, but no response, i put it under shade a few days ago, but doesnt seem like its helping

no3 5
po4 0.15
alk 9
cal 420
mg 1400

i keep a mixed tank. tanks almost 3 years old.
ill add pics in a few hours

 

[Tcook]

Do you know what par it's under? What lights are you using?

 

[GSnake]

they are led's , mixed spectrum, and its sitting on the sand bed, i also have a strip additional only blue leds along the back . par was about 100-150 , but its in a shaded area now, likely 50par

 

[Tcook]

Ok. Light seems right. PO4 slightly high but it's been in there a month looking good until now. How about a pic.

/edit. Going downhill since you got it. Let's get the PO4 down to about 0.05. Who do other sps look especially hammers and torch if you have them?

 

[GSnake]

Ok. Light seems right. PO4 slightly high but it's been in there a month looking good until now. How about a pic.

/edit. Going downhill since you got it. Let's get the PO4 down to about 0.05. Who do other sps look especially hammers and torch if you have them?

Here's the pic. Torches are ok imo. Sps decent too.

 

[GSnake]

This is one of four corals I got from the same store one day last month... The others did not fare very well and I already tossed em fairly quickly. I don't know if im surprised at this coincidence , but I really would like to save this lil scoly

 

[Tcook]

I had a trachy do that with too much light that went almost translucent. Recovered over a year. 150 par isn't really high unless it sat at low par at the lfs.

@ReefSquad
@MERKEY

 

[Pistondog]

try meaty food, not pellets.
Does he open up at night? (feeding behaviour)

 

[GSnake]

No not that I've seen. I just fed him reef roids with pumps off. He seemed to eat it like a chalice does, mucus to gather it and through the mouth. I noticed cause he ate a few grains of sand that were on him too. I haven't seen polyps or regular eating though

 

[GSnake]

Here it is

 

[Pistondog]

Try meaty food.
My scoly opens up 3 hours after lights out.

 

[GSnake]

I'll try feeding in the night. Some mysis / krill

 

[MERKEY]

Good advice given so far!

If it's eating the reef roids that is another good sign.

 

[MERKEY]

One thing that stands out is that you said you got 4 corals from the same place and 3 others are already dead.



Sometimes it really is where we get them from.



Not knocking the shop.



I'd keep low light and low low flow until it starts to come back.



It eating is a really good sign.

 

[Uncle99]

Some never throw out tentacles and slowly recede. I have lost this battle serval times.
Some do fantastic.

I never found any reason why some work great and others fail under identical conditions other than being hassled by shrimps or run over by stars.

So when I add a new scoly these days, I must see it with tentacles out, or it stays at the store. There should be a reaction even in light to food offerings in healthy specimens.
Each lights out, we should clearly see those tentacles, some not as much as others, but still there.

Something like elegance and long tentacles plates.
Here today, gone tomorrow.