Rescue Corals

[MechEng99]

telanni - looks like what is commonly referred to as a "moon coral". Go back to the first page, and you'll see one of mine that looked like that to start with...and what it ended up being! Can you tell us more about your tank? We'll help you save it!!

Jarred1 - can you post an updated pic? Unfortunately some of our "rescue corals" are bleached when we get them, so they often have brighter-than-healthy colors. Typical things to lighten corals are increasing photo period (be careful not to bleach), and decrease nitrates/phosphates/organics.

Well, I just picked up another 5 rescues. Pics will be up this weekend!! I got an acanthaphyllia, a scolymia, a black sun coral, and two lobos. Very excited!! The 50g hospital system is up and running...and fully stocked on about every medication for corals/fish I can think of.

Keep the rescues coming!!!

[MechEng99]

Jarred - sorry, just thinking and looking back through the photos. Have you changed lighting? If you don't have any algae problems, you may want to think about dosing iron (can help with greens). If you have SPS, look at them for your colors. If they look right, then leave it all be. If your green SPS don't look too great, we can fix all your greens.

[Jarred1]

Originally Posted by MechEng99

Jarred - sorry, just thinking and looking back through the photos. Have you changed lighting? If you don't have any algae problems, you may want to think about dosing iron (can help with greens). If you have SPS, look at them for your colors. If they look right, then leave it all be. If your green SPS don't look too great, we can fix all your greens.

I have not changed anything in my tank recently. All the other green corals in the tank look just fine. There is bubble algae in the tank, so I began to run chemi pure elite. Could it be that when the coral bleached it lost the bright green color and can't get it back?


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[MechEng99]

Jarred - To my knowledge, corals can't lose their color and not get it back. (Although I think there are some experiments...or should be...if all zooxanthallae is removed/killed and replaced with a different zooxanthallae...what will happen). Coral color and flourescence is pretty complicated, and I'm not even going to try to go down that road.

Maybe the "chemi-pure elite" is sucking out some of the iron in your tank, which is causing your coral to not have the coloration you desire. What are you feeding it? Sorry I don't have a good answer for you. I'll keep thinking about it.

[MechEng99]

Here are the latest rescues!!

Acanthophyllia, purchased 1 October 2011:


Scolymia, purchased 1 October 2011:


Lobo...same date


Another lobo...same date


Black sun coral that actually started spawning in the treatment cup...same date:


Annnnd...here's a nice before and now shot:

Before:


Now:

[nonstopfishies]

Wow, great looking Lobo all healed up! I hope the others do the same. I am pretty sure I am getting a "rescue pack" of acans from a dealer soon. So hopefully I will have some pics and be able to save some great pieces!

[MechEng99]

Thanks!! Awesome - keep us posted! I've had some pretty bad looking acan's, but never a true full rescue on them. I'd love to see yours.

[Jarred1]

I haven't been feeding it anything. Maybe I should start feeding it.


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[MechEng99]

Jarred - I'll do some researching on it too. We'll figure something out. I know I'd want that bright green back too!

[Bruno21447]

very cool you got those i hope you save them.I will have to keep a eye out for the after pics.

[MechEng99]

Just an update, and this has me stumped.

The Acanthophyllia has lost half of its tissue (down to only one side now), but that side is coloring up quite nicely. Yet, it's still receding. I'm wondering if there will be a certain point where the zooxanthallae will reproduce to a point and produce enough sustainment for the coral to stop receding and start to heal...before it dies? The coral was so bleached and wouldn't eat that it's no wonder it is losing tissue. I just don't understand how it's losing tissue and coloring up at the same time. Ideas?

The other corals are doing great. The sun coral has a way to go, but that's typical with those.

[Mike247]

this is my first rescue and one of my favorite corals. was a freebie from a local reefer. was receding pretty bad. took it a few days to eat, but after that it hasn't slowed down. it has 12+ babies now.

[steevareno2002]

Wow nice! Did you feed it?

[Mike247]

Originally Posted by steevareno2002

Wow nice! Did you feed it?

Yeah, i started feeding with H20 life coral mix, gulf shrimp and whatever fish i catch lol. my kids net the shrimp while i catch the fish. for the naysayers i do clean the fish/shrimp then rinse with r/o. all my corals like the h20 life great product.

[dsmhero]

Instead of starting a new thread...I figure I will just add to this one



This one I am still trying to save but it is looking better than before

[jc-reef]

Originally Posted by jc-reef

I have another rescue coral.

[09/2010] This is a 'tiny chip' of a frogsporn that a friend of mine got back in September 2010 that was accidently broken off the main frag. It was really tiny and had a little piece of skeleton on it (barely)...so I gave it a shot and glued to to a piece of marble to see if it would survive. The piece of marble you see here in photo is only 1"x1" and the 'chip' of frogsporn was no bigger than my pinky nail!!!!



[01/2011] And now you can see this thing did indeed survive and has really grown!!! It has also turned out to be a very colorful piece with neon green body with bright purple tips!!! Looks superb under actinics!! The pic here is under FULL LIGHTING and you can see even still, the green looks like it is 'glowing'....

[01/2012] And now...has become a beauty! Has 5 branching heads.


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[ReefRescue]

Nice job on the frogspon JC-REEF....
DSMhero those are looking really good for only one month of recovery....

you guys should share what you are doing if anything to promote and speed up the recovery process....

[dsmhero]

jc-reef: What a beautiful frogspawn, I am jealous.

ashkan: I just acclimate to my tank and dip with CoralRx, then spot feed once a week. Other than that, just good ol' fashion waiting.

[ReefRescue]

Mike247 that's looking real good...

[ReefRescue]

MechEng
what are you treating with for the sun coral?

[ReefRescue]

wow I have been gone for as while these corals are looking good.....

[Psirex]

Wow!!!

[Mhayes462]

I bought this lobo yesterday and want to bring its health back up. I have it in the front of a biocube 29g under stock lighting and 20x1watt LEDs behind the stock bulbs. It sits under the 36watt 10000k. What should I do? Lighting, feeding or any other suggestions please. I figured this would be the best thread to post this. Thanks


Mike Hayes

[LeLutinBanni]

What kind of special treatment you give to those corals ?

[Psirex]

I'm losing my Torch and Trumpets at wits end as to what could be causing it I have had all test verified with my LFS.... so if I move them to a QT setup what should I treat them with?