Bleached Echinopora

GoPitt88 · Oct 6, 2018

What would you do? I have had a green eyed blue monster Echinopora for over 2 years now, and it recently went through a bleaching incident.......my fault [emoji53] I have run GFO and ROX 0.8 for years, and thought I’d stop running the GFO to get a little phosphates in the water (thinking that would be good for my corals). My phosphates have always read zero, and even after a week w/o GFO, my phosphates continued to read zero. I DID notice, however, that I now had to clean the glass daily, and my Echinopora started to turn brown. Within a coupe days, the center of my green eyed blue monster turned completely white. Needless to say, I’m back to using GFO. That all being said, the front part of this coral still looks good. Should I frag that part of the coral and throw the rest away, or should I keep the entire coral in the tank to see if it will recover? WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

I’ll take pictures once my lights turn on.

Thanks [emoji3]

DSC reef · Oct 6, 2018

That particular chalice is pretty resilient and we had a colony grow back from just a tiny bit of tissue. If the recession has stopped you can leave it but if its unsightly you can frag the coral. When fragging try to have some iodine based coral dip on hand incase you cut/break into healthy tissue.

GoPitt88 · Oct 6, 2018

DSC reef said:
That particular chalice is pretty resilient and we had a colony grow back from just a tiny bit of tissue. If the recession has stopped you can leave it but if its unsightly you can frag the coral. When fragging try to have some iodine based coral dip on hand incase you cut/break into healthy tissue.

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GoPitt88 · Oct 6, 2018

DSC reef said:
That particular chalice is pretty resilient and we had a colony grow back from just a tiny bit of tissue. If the recession has stopped you can leave it but if its unsightly you can frag the coral. When fragging try to have some iodine based coral dip on hand incase you cut/break into healthy tissue.

What about Coral Rx?

DSC reef · Oct 6, 2018

GoPitt88 said:
What about Coral Rx?

Negative, I honestly wouldn't dip a healthy chalice in that. Not saying people haven't but that stuff is harsh and for pests. The iodine base will help prevent infection and is common for fragging plus is way gentler on the coral.