Sick scoly

[cody2cannon]

Ok so my local fish shop has a scoly for 30 bucks but it doesnt look good. Are they easy to bring back? If so should i get it? Sorry no pics at the moment but the fleah has begun to recede on one end and its pretty flat. Color is still vibrant green and red. About 2.5 inch in diameter

 

[Geebs19]

I think it would be a gamble. What type of conditions are it in now? Ive heard of receding in high light, high flow.

 

[cody2cannon]

This isnt the one but looks like this kind of recession, just not as much as this pic. Its in high light low flow

 

[BestMomEver]

I wouldn’t. It’s kinda like going to a casino... you might as well throw your money out the car window on the way, cause that’s about how good your odds are!

 

[cody2cannon]

Ok lol thanks!

 

[ReefEngr]

Whether it will bounce back or not will also depend on your tank's water parameters, light and flow. From my experience, they are quite hardy. You should have no problem bringing it back to good health if your water parameters are good and you place the scoly in the right location in your tank. They like to be in a low/medium light with low flow. High light will cause the scoly to recede and not fully open. High flow will cause the flesh to tear. Manually feeding it food will help it recover quicker too.

 

[LV3]

I’d pick it up. Low light, low flow, lots of feeding will bring this back.

 

[cody2cannon]

I use the current usa light ao nothing crazy and gyre 1k but have spots will lower flow i may grab it

 

[cody2cannon]

Its green with red lines, 2.5 inches. Fully healthy would run me how much money?? Ish

 

[Cthulukelele]

Its green with red lines, 2.5 inches. Fully healthy would run me how much money?? Ish

Really depends on the availability in the area, but a 2"+ bleeding apple scoly can run like 200 bucks

 

[cody2cannon]

Only food i have is rods frozen brine, small pellets for clowns, and reef roids. Which is best?

 

[Cthulukelele]

Only food i have is rods frozen brine, small pellets for clowns, and reef roids. Which is best?

It would likely eat any of those, but my lps seem to like meaty foods best like the brine or something like LRS reef frenzy

 

[cody2cannon]

Ok perfect brine it is, they arw medium sized brine too so pretty chunky

 

[cody2cannon]

Store is closed till Thursday so who know may not be there when i go. We shall see ill post pics and progress here

 

[ReefEngr]

I like to use frozen mysis shrimp to feed lps, but brine works too. Good luck!

 

[Cthulukelele]

I like to use frozen mysis to feed lps, but brine works too. Good luck!

I agree that mysis would be better especially for something with such a big mouth like a scoly. I have heard brine is lacking in a lot of nutritional value.

 

[LV3]

Here’s some inspiration that it can be done.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/operation-save-the-scoly.328747/

 

[cody2cannon]

Wow yea this one looks way better than that one did!

 

[carmodpg]

I think its a quasi-bad gamble unless you have the time to take it out of the tank and target feed it. A friend gave me an awesome scoly 2 months back to try and save (apparently, this person did not know that you actually have to feed them). It looked a little worse off than the picture you posted. After about a week, I had made some good progress nursing it back, however the problem is that a sick scoly's mouth tends to "disappear." Long story short, something in the tank had to of messed with it one night because it all of the sudden began to deteriorate at a very rapid rate. Once it began going down hill again, I could not save it. However if you have the money and the time, might as well try!

 

[ReefEngr]

The cool thing about lps corals is their ability to "sprout" new polyps from what appeared to be a dead skeleton. I've experienced this with fungia, bubble coral, scoly, and blastos. I once tried to save a half dead scoly and end up with 4 baby scoly. It was pretty cool. I might still have pics of it. I currently have a bubble coral and a blasto that is doing it too. I will try to get pics tonight.