Help!!!

[footbagger311]

I just received my order from LiveAquaria.com and my Butternut Stylophora looks like it is getting bleached already. I've had it in my tank since Tuesday and the tips look to be getting whiter each day.

I just moved them up to the highest point in my tank in hopes that it will make some difference.

I am also running T5 HO lights.

[flyyyguy]

The last thing you want to do with a everely bleached coral is move it higher. just the opposite. not in the shade, but as far away from your lights as you can get it

gota pic?? are you sure its bleached and not dead?dying??

are there polyps and or flesh on the parts you say are bleached?

[footbagger311]

The polyps are still green looking but near the upper tips, it looks like the polyps have disappeared and the flesh turned white. I'll try to take a pic, but it probably won't turn out too well. I have yet to learn how to take decent pix with my camera so I have been using my phone in the mean time.

[footbagger311]

http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v271/89/57/1114907694/n1114907694_120963_4147.jpg

Hopefully these look decent enough.

http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v271/89/57/1114907694/n1114907694_120962_3784.jpg


Also, if anyone knows what that coral is in the background, I'd love to know what it is.

[footbagger311]

http://photos-694.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-snc1/v271/89/57/1114907694/n1114907694_104573_3296.jpg

Here is a full tank shot and let me try that other one again...

http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v271/89/57/1114907694/n1114907694_120962_3784.jpg

[footbagger311]

I moved that guy down to the sandbed and it looks like it is molting or something.

[gavinthefish]

If its starting to "molt" then its more than likely a goner.

[footbagger311]

Mother of god.

[wrott]

I'd put it in low light and high flow for 2 weeks, then start moving it up.
It looks like it could make it, but really when acclimating a new arrival--low light for a week or so can mean the difference in life or death.
Corals and other invertebrates will expel their zooxanthellae when stressed by shipping, and it CAN take a month or so for them to recover from the stress.

[IslandCrow]

If the flesh is starting to come off, I'd suggest fragging the portion that's still relatively healthy (if such a portion exists). Once necrosis starts, it tends to spread to the rest of the coral. If you frag well away from the dying tissue, you can sometimes save a portion of the coral. An iodine dip can sometimes help as well. I've never used regular iodine, but Kent Tech D is basically an iodine dip, and it comes complete with directions, so there's no guessing.