Aussie lord new head development

[Reefdiculous22]

All that white is exposed skeleton that wasn't exposed before. Everywhere you see the hard white is missing flesh from damage. Toothbrushes do not belong on LPS corals.

You're right about the best and worst case scenarios. Make sure to keep your water as clean as possible, without draining the nutrients too much. If there's intact heads on the other side, feed those only, not the damaged heads.

Oh, and for zoas, a peroxide dip can remove algae without needing any scrubbing. You have to be careful with those, because some species of them are toxic, and scrubbing with a toothbrush will spray teeny-tiny particles of slime everywhere. Bad if the slime is toxic.

Hey, at least you've got a good "when I started out in the hobby, I ____" story! And it doesn't involve the suffering and/or death of an animal with a brain. You've basically severely inconvenienced a plant.

So I just got done with my feeding and 2 out of the 3 I damaged heads to in mysis so that’s a good sign. I def need to get some peroxide, I just didn’t really want to use it because there is coralline algae on the frag pieces and I was hoping it would seed the tank. But yeah I did loose a lt tang the other day, it was actually kinda sad and now this with the algae is becoming overwhelming. Lol but all jokes aside I shouldn’t even have corals. This is my first tank and it’s only 2 mo old. So it’s a little bit of a humbling experience.

 

[Reefdiculous22]

All that white is exposed skeleton that wasn't exposed before. Everywhere you see the hard white is missing flesh from damage. Toothbrushes do not belong on LPS corals.

You're right about the best and worst case scenarios. Make sure to keep your water as clean as possible, without draining the nutrients too much. If there's intact heads on the other side, feed those only, not the damaged heads.

Oh, and for zoas, a peroxide dip can remove algae without needing any scrubbing. You have to be careful with those, because some species of them are toxic, and scrubbing with a toothbrush will spray teeny-tiny particles of slime everywhere. Bad if the slime is toxic.

Hey, at least you've got a good "when I started out in the hobby, I ____" story! And it doesn't involve the suffering and/or death of an animal with a brain. You've basically severely inconvenienced a plant.

All that white is exposed skeleton that wasn't exposed before. Everywhere you see the hard white is missing flesh from damage. Toothbrushes do not belong on LPS corals.

You're right about the best and worst case scenarios. Make sure to keep your water as clean as possible, without draining the nutrients too much. If there's intact heads on the other side, feed those only, not the damaged heads.

Oh, and for zoas, a peroxide dip can remove algae without needing any scrubbing. You have to be careful with those, because some species of them are toxic, and scrubbing with a toothbrush will spray teeny-tiny particles of slime everywhere. Bad if the slime is toxic.

Hey, at least you've got a good "when I started out in the hobby, I ____" story! And it doesn't involve the suffering and/or death of an animal with a brain. You've basically severely inconvenienced a plant.

I meant 2 out of the 3 undamaged heads

 

[bruno3047]

It was just that one head on the back side . That’s where I scrubbed. The rest was on the plug now that I know the other part wasn’t the plug. There are still 3 healthy heads would be 4 but I must have grazed part of that one because half of it is white and the other half isn’t. So I’m hoping as well it’s stressed and will work itself out. Best case scenario is I stunted its growth for a few month?.. worse case scenario it get an infection and dies? I’m hoping for the aforementioned and not the latter. My zoas did the same as well when I scrubbed them. 6 polyps , 2 are coming back out now. I will def need to be more careful in the future. As was posted previously live and learn. :D

A toothbrush is a very imprecise cleaning tool. Especially if it’s an old toothbrush with splayed bristles. What I’ve done is I’ve cut the last quarter inch or so off the bristles so that they are all straight with no splayed ends. This way it only touches what I want it to touch. Good luck.

PS careful with the peroxide. I’ve nuked a couple of nice frags with it.

 

[Reefdiculous22]

Sounds like a good plan. I seriously doubt that you killed it. Probably just shocked it.

Sounds like a good plan. I seriously doubt that you killed it. Probably just shocked it.

So it’s been a while since this post , just thought I’d do a little update. I think I’m getting some new growth!