Blue tenius released all "blue"
 

Well I was acclimating a blue tenius that I got to the light. It was doing fine till the light went off. Afterwards, it released all its algae and its now white :|

Any clue? Will it survive? I can see one or two branches are still blue.

This is what it looked before the light went out:

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5366/acrol.jpg

After the light went out, it released blue mucus (the algae I guess); I took it infront of the powerhead to get the mucus off and most of it is now white (some blue is remaining at the lower branches).

It won't give off blue mucus, but it will slough off it's tissue, in which case it's done. See what it looks like in morning, if it's all white, take it out and smell it. It will smell if it still has tissue, if not, no smell. If it does have tissue, it's possible for it to recover.

I will do that :)

Its VERY VERY weird. While the light was on, the coral was fine and as soon as the light went out, it started releasing mucus and became white :|

Maybe turn the light back on, see if it's blue again?

Well since it was releasing mucus, I cleaned it with the flow of powerhead and then turned light back on and saw most of it is white. Turned off the light again as soon as I noted that.

Bought a pink milli too and its tentacles are already out like crazy. Blue gomezi is ok I am guessing since it did not release anything.

Weird SPS :|

Putting them in front of power heads is probably not the best thing to do :) Shake it in the water or fan it with your hand, or lightly hit it with a turkey baster.
Sounds done to me.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :'(

The powerhead is not strong though. Its a koralia nano 425gph. But the bottom of the frag still seems to have life. The top branches are white now but the bottom is still colored. Maybe keep it for a week and see whether there's any improvement?

ive got a couple sps that i thought were goners, bleached or rtned,that came back so even if a tiny patch of tissue survives you'll still in essence have a frag.

Ya, do the smell test tomorrow, if it still smells, keep it. I had a piece bleach and stay pure white for 4 or 5 months, then came back.

If you look at your picture you can already see the flesh peeling and receding. It already has 50% skeleton showing. The timing of the tissue releasing and the light going off was purely coincidence. That coral was allready in serious trouble.

It is hard to tell from the picture but it does seem to be half blue and the other half algae covered.

I had this happen to a piece last week. It shed its flesh. I moved mine to less flow and it started to come out again but I new something was wrong because polyps wernt out for two days. Check your parmeters I had a small phosphate spike.

If you bought it like that it was already on its way out when you got it. The tips were already missing tissue. I hope nobody sold it to you like that your pic shows a coral in serious trouble.

I always thought SPS are colored from inside and doesn't have any outer tissue :P

Yah I guess this thing doesn't ship well.

Yap checked the params (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate, kh, ph, calcium) and all of them are in check. I feel like color blind when testing for phosphate but I am pretty sure its below 0.05ppm.

No, they have the white calcium skeleton, then that is covered with layers of tissue, within this tissue is the varying pigments and algae.

Oh I didn't buy it; it was a freebee :)

Oooooooo. That clears a lot. Now I get why the new branches are white initially :P Thanks for the lesson :mrgreen:

you running carbon???


lol sorry i had too :twised::twised:

Ah you are starting another carbon thread :lol: :wink:

I don't run any carbon in reactor but I just put a bag of aquaclear carbon in the filter. I don't like smelly water :P

I can change that MVP to A S S ..:razz:

:lol:

Ah typical Brad.

almost predictable, eh?

:pop2:

(before kien takes it away :mrgreen:)

I told you before, you can't steal his popcorn..

Yah that's why I posted it in the first place with my own popcorn :mrgreen:

Can you change mine to Rick James ;) jk

what ya mean Brad change there is no changing here.:mrgreen: your not one of those people who would change things on people are ya lol

ahhhh no i like it the way it is now lol although i wont have my reefwars id for long anyways but still lol ;P


i take it all back....i love carbon:)

Have you seen Dennys tank? Its practically 115% made of superglue and epoxy haha, A S S makes sense to me as the aquascape super star...