SPS impending death following power outage

[Boxofpurplerocks]

Finally had my worst nightmare realized this past weekend...while I was away for the weekend without cell reception, my home was hit with a 2 day power outage from some huge storms. Unfortunately by the time I realized the power was out it was too late to do anything. To make matters worse I am travelling for work this week, so I have to handle everything remotely (which means having my girlfriend do water changes and water tests, godbless her). The upside, 5 of my sps frags survived. The downside...I'm having what appears to be rtn/stn on my favorite large piece, my green slimer. I've never dealt with stn/rtn before...is this frag forsure doomed? Looks like it's happening in a few different spots.

 

[watchguy123]

At best, it certainly looks like that coral has little chance of recovery. I had a power outage last year for days and went through the nightmare as well. Surprisingly some although not that many did survive. I was able to save in some instances just polyps of sps and that was enough to come back albeit very slowly. but many just went downhill relatively fast. In my case, I did not seem to have the tank cycle even though I lost a fair amount of fish and coral. In terms of corals, the lps did really well but not the sps. Somehow, the nitrates and phosphates did not rise all that much. I presume the live rock, deep sand, siporax, chaeto, and protein skimmer did what they are supposed to do and the tank rebounded although the losses to the sps were around 95%. Some of the sps rtn'd and othe stn/d over a week or two. I was out of the house for 6 days because of mandatory fire evacuation (giant Los Angeles fires in October2018) when the days long power outage hit during that time. Good luck.

 

[Boxofpurplerocks]

At best, it certainly looks like that coral has little chance of recovery. I had a power outage last year for days and went through the nightmare as well. Surprisingly some although not that many did survive. I was able to save in some instances just polyps of sps and that was enough to come back albeit very slowly. but many just went downhill relatively fast. In my case, I did not seem to have the tank cycle even though I lost a fair amount of fish and coral. In terms of corals, the lps did really well but not the sps. Somehow, the nitrates and phosphates did not rise all that much. I presume the live rock, deep sand, siporax, chaeto, and protein skimmer did what they are supposed to do and the tank rebounded although the losses to the sps were around 95%. Some of the sps rtn'd and othe stn/d over a week or two. I was out of the house for 6 days because of mandatory fire evacuation (giant Los Angeles fires in October2018) when the days long power outage hit during that time. Good luck.

Unfortunately I'll have to wait until I get home Friday to try to frag off any pieces, so it'll likely be gone by then. I got lucky like you and all of my lps survived. Somehow my other sps frags look okay so far, so I'm crossing my fingers that they don't follow a similar path. Fortunately we had mild weather when the power went out, so the tank temp dropped only a few degrees rather than rose. Sucks that the only thing that could have prevented this is an automatic backup generator, it just happened to be good (or bad, really) timing.

 

[TheGreatWave]

If those are polyps I see you may have a chance. Knock on wood. IMO I wouldn't worry about fragging it one way or the other, maybe down the road if algae starts to grow on the dead sections.

If you find that three months from now you are staring down at your reflection in the aquarium and the only sign of life is a tear from your eye, it might be time to throw it out.

 

[SeaDweller]

If those are polyps I see you may have a chance. Knock on wood. IMO I wouldn't worry about fragging it one way or the other, maybe down the road if algae starts to grow on the dead sections.

If you find that three months from now you are staring down at your reflection in the aquarium and the only sign of life is a tear from your eye, it might be time to throw it out.

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[Boxofpurplerocks]

If those are polyps I see you may have a chance. Knock on wood. IMO I wouldn't worry about fragging it one way or the other, maybe down the road if algae starts to grow on the dead sections.

If you find that three months from now you are staring down at your reflection in the aquarium and the only sign of life is a tear from your eye, it might be time to throw it out.

Yeah there are definitely still polyps out on the rest of the coral. And let's just hope it doesnt come down to me staring hahaha