Bleached my Digi

KirstenB · Jun 22, 2019

So after having read that Montipora Digitatas like med to high lighting and med to high flow after slowly moving my frag rack up I glued this to the rock near the top of the tank. I have a reefer 250 running kessil ap700 at about 12% intensity. So, after about a week up there about 10 inches from the water line I bleached it and it is just a skeleton now. I moved it back down to the bottom of the tank. Has anyone seen these bounce back after bleaching or should I just toss it? Ty for any tips.

Saintnovakai · Jun 22, 2019

If you can see even 1 (Uno, Yi, Ek, Ein) ONE polyp, DONT TOSS IT OUT! Montis are the Lazarus coral. They can come back from the dead!

If it does come back and start asking for brains though, run away. Lol

Fishfinder · Jun 22, 2019

I find it hard to believe that it bleached at 12%. Post some pics and tank info

Pdash · Jun 22, 2019

KirstenB said:
So after having read that Montipora Digitatas like med to high lighting and med to high flow after slowly moving my frag rack up I glued this to the rock near the top of the tank. I have a reefer 250 running kessil ap700 at about 12% intensity. So, after about a week up there about 10 inches from the water line I bleached it and it is just a skeleton now. I moved it back down to the bottom of the tank. Has anyone seen these bounce back after bleaching or should I just toss it? Ty for any tips.

I think you might misunderstand what "bleaching" refers to. Usually this means it pales out, still has skin and polyps, this is usually from too little nutrients and or too high light. If it has no tissue that would typically be tissue necrosis, either rapid or slow (RTN,STN). Tissue necrosis usually occurs when a coral is extremely stressed, which could be from parameter swings, contaminates, warfare between corals, etc..

KirstenB · Jun 23, 2019

Pdash said:
I think you might misunderstand what "bleaching" refers to. Usually this means it pales out, still has skin and polyps, this is usually from too little nutrients and or too high light. If it has no tissue that would typically be tissue necrosis, either rapid or slow (RTN,STN). Tissue necrosis usually occurs when a coral is extremely stressed, which could be from parameter swings, contaminates, warfare between corals, etc..

Ty for any help. This could be RTN. Here are a few pics. If so, no sense keeping it unfortunately, correct?

KirstenB · Jun 23, 2019

Saintnovakai · Jun 23, 2019

KirstenB said:

Man that looks dog dead. Sorry. Leave it there though. At least for a month. You can never tell.

But....that's Colgate white....all I'm sayin.

Pdash · Jun 23, 2019

Correct, that is not bleached, but dead, if the skin dissapeared over night that would be rtn, if it dissapeared over days or weeks that would be stn. Hard to say why it occurred exactly without much more information from you about your tanks parameters over the time you have had it.

Saintnovakai · Jun 23, 2019

This kinda happened to me once. The moment I noticed it I fragged and moved to a different location, increasing the odds of survival and trying to narrow down the environmental variable. Not to worry. We live and we learn.