Just a question, based on some odd experience with SPS that by all accounts would have been chucked into the trash I’m guessing by most people.
I have about 20 small frags of SPS and some LPS that were white skeletons, looked dead as heck to me. The tank they were in went through a nitrate spike of 70-80 for weeks undetected. The nitrates were eventually brought back down to 10-ish but it appeared the damage was done. Multiple stylos, undata, montis, enchinata, acros, etc as well as some acans and trumpets were devastated. The acans and trumpets showed zero tissue, the SPS were white with no polyp extension at all. On a whim I set up a biocube I had with a Steve’s led fixture and moved everything into it. 3 weeks later I’m seeing some of the SPS have very tiny polyp extenstion (not any major coloring up yet but theyreand the acans have completely rebounded. So is this just a quirk or are SPS corals capable of returning from the grave?
Took a few quick pics to hopefully track this as they make their comeback. Only running blues right now so will change lighting later with some whites added to gain some more timeline pics for comparison down the road.
I have about 20 small frags of SPS and some LPS that were white skeletons, looked dead as heck to me. The tank they were in went through a nitrate spike of 70-80 for weeks undetected. The nitrates were eventually brought back down to 10-ish but it appeared the damage was done. Multiple stylos, undata, montis, enchinata, acros, etc as well as some acans and trumpets were devastated. The acans and trumpets showed zero tissue, the SPS were white with no polyp extension at all. On a whim I set up a biocube I had with a Steve’s led fixture and moved everything into it. 3 weeks later I’m seeing some of the SPS have very tiny polyp extenstion (not any major coloring up yet but theyreand the acans have completely rebounded. So is this just a quirk or are SPS corals capable of returning from the grave?
Took a few quick pics to hopefully track this as they make their comeback. Only running blues right now so will change lighting later with some whites added to gain some more timeline pics for comparison down the road.
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