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12-14-2010, 06:49 PM
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Why the @$&% is my chalice bleaching?
I got a frag of a chalice from OA a few months ago. It's got to be my favorite chalice and I pined for months until OA finally decided to frag the mother in their display. When I got the frag it was a little rough as it wasn't too pleased with being cut up but with a few weeks o loving care under an overhang it bounced back and colored up like a champ. Over the course of about 7 weeks I slowly moved it back out into the light on the sand. It was happy as all hell and was growing at what I considered a good pace for a chalice for about 6 weeks. That is until about a week or two ago...
It started to look a little pale on one edge near one of the mouths that had been cut. So I moved it out of the direct light to see if it would bounce back. It got worse. So I moved it back to the overhang where I first put it. Check it this morning and it is seriously bleached! Still has some color but in some areas is pretty much see-through. WTF? OA always had this colony on the sand under an overhang where is was happy, so I've been keeping it in similar conditions. I cannot for the life of me figure what is going on with this guy. I've never been able to get a feeding response from it to try and help it along that way. Anyone have any suggestions? Or is this guy too far gone and I'm just going to have to watch it wither away? Last edited by ScubaSteve; 12-14-2010 at 08:30 PM. Reason: iPhone autocorrect is retarded 
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12-14-2010, 07:09 PM
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I had one chalice do that to me this summer, when my tank got hot. Overnight it went from red to almost clear.. Had all it's flesh, just clear. I put it way off to the side and it colored back up, but it took months.
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12-14-2010, 07:15 PM
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12-14-2010, 07:29 PM
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Other than a bit of a drop in my calc a few days ago (since been corrected) the parameters have been pretty spot on. All my SPS are happy (except for my red planet who refuses to do anything other than show off a wicked shade a brown). My house is characteristically warm but doesn't really fluctuate in temp. The tank temp stays pretty constant.
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12-14-2010, 08:43 PM
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I went through an odd bleaching stage with many of my chalice colonies that I could never really quantize. Really similar to your experiences Kevin but with 7 or 8 whole colonies (and many of those were my nicer ones).
I'm leaning towards some sort of pathogen in the water, all my parameters were pretty spot on including temperature. I had one of the colonies die on me, 2 of them healed extremely quickly, 3 of them took about a month to regain color and my "optimus prime" chalice took a 5 month roller coaster ride to regain its color. It seemed to hit all over the map including Echinophyllia, Mycedium, Oxypora, Pectinia, Physophyllia and Echinomorpha. Only suggestion I can make step up the target feeding regime and soak the food in the zeovit LPS AA supplement. I know you are good with keeping the parameters steady so keep up on it and hopefully it will come back for you. Any photos? Levi
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