Bleached Coral Recovery Time...

aastretch64 · 07/21/2008, 03:26 PM

I have a blue tip staghorn that bleached (except the blue tips). The polyps are still extended and I target feed it cyclopeeze twice a week.

In optimal conditions how long will it take a typical bleached stag to recover? Days, Months, Years, Centuries, millenia...LOL.

Alex

Bebo77 · 07/21/2008, 03:35 PM

no way to give you an answer... every tank is different... could be a week.. could never happen...

MCsaxmaster · 07/21/2008, 10:53 PM

Typically recovery times for Acropora after severe bleaching are on the order of at least a month if not two. Feeding will definitely help as will ensuring good water flow. Slight shading may also help recovery.

And by "recovery" here I mean the time needed for the coral to regain normal zoox. density/pigment density. In order to fully "recover" from the physiological stress of bleaching it could be a few months more to well over a year. For example, spawning a year after a bleaching event can be ruined or very screwed up due to bleaching the previous year. It can take at least a year for some corals to fully regain their lipid reserves.

Chris

GreatReefs · 07/22/2008, 03:46 AM

It depends on your tank condition. But usually you start seeing some color come back within a month. And hopefully by 3 three months you've got your color back.
Mcsaxmaster love the flying spaghetti monster

lol

MCsaxmaster · 07/22/2008, 04:06 AM

shelburn61 · 07/22/2008, 07:59 AM

I electrocuted a few colonies during a move ~90 days ago(dog+powerstrip=trouble). Bone white afterwards, but all survived and are now growing and doing well again but still haven't gotten back tip color etc. Flow and low light...

07/21/2008, 03:26 PM	#1
aastretch64 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Franklin Park, IL Posts: 384	Bleached Coral Recovery Time... I have a blue tip staghorn that bleached (except the blue tips). The polyps are still extended and I target feed it cyclopeeze twice a week. In optimal conditions how long will it take a typical bleached stag to recover? Days, Months, Years, Centuries, millenia...LOL. Alex

07/21/2008, 03:35 PM	#2
Bebo77 Premium Nonpaying Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Lost Posts: 14,377	no way to give you an answer... every tank is different... could be a week.. could never happen... __________________ Gabriel Current Tank Info: 300 Gal Envision Tank(98Lx30Wx26T) 120 Gal SoCalCreations Sump, Deltec TC2560, 2 LumenarcsMini 1 Reg on a light mover W Radiums 250& 400, Gallaxy ballasts, Red Dragon 10m3 return W/ 2 WavySeas, 2 6155 Tunze streams

07/21/2008, 10:53 PM	#3
MCsaxmaster Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kaneohe, HI Posts: 3,498	Typically recovery times for Acropora after severe bleaching are on the order of at least a month if not two. Feeding will definitely help as will ensuring good water flow. Slight shading may also help recovery. And by "recovery" here I mean the time needed for the coral to regain normal zoox. density/pigment density. In order to fully "recover" from the physiological stress of bleaching it could be a few months more to well over a year. For example, spawning a year after a bleaching event can be ruined or very screwed up due to bleaching the previous year. It can take at least a year for some corals to fully regain their lipid reserves. Chris __________________ "When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong." -Dawkins Current Tank Info: ...but, but, the ocean is right there...

07/22/2008, 04:06 AM	#5
MCsaxmaster Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kaneohe, HI Posts: 3,498	__________________ "When two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong." -Dawkins Current Tank Info: ...but, but, the ocean is right there...

07/22/2008, 03:46 AM	#4
GreatReefs Moved On Join Date: May 2008 Location: in the reef Posts: 232	It depends on your tank condition. But usually you start seeing some color come back within a month. And hopefully by 3 three months you've got your color back. Mcsaxmaster love the flying spaghetti monster lol

07/22/2008, 07:59 AM	#6
shelburn61 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Charlotte Posts: 2,094	I electrocuted a few colonies during a move ~90 days ago(dog+powerstrip=trouble). Bone white afterwards, but all survived and are now growing and doing well again but still haven't gotten back tip color etc. Flow and low light...