Candycane recovering?

[morrismj84]

I had this in my 180g for 6 months. It never grew. In fact, the flesh slowly deteriorated and skeleton showed through. My phosphates were high. Eventually it was covered in hair algae. I moved it to a new frag tank and day one I saw that little fleshy portion near mouth. Do you all think it can recover?

 

[Flippers4pups]

Could, looks like it will.

 

[Mastiffsrule]

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[Hermie]

Maybe consider an H202 dip or spot application to the skeleton... anything to lower the algae so the coral doesn't have to fight it. I have a favia that's having a "heck" of a time trying to recover over exposed skeleton that's been "Sequestered" by some hair algae. I've used a brush to apply h2o2 and that seems to have helped some, but the algae is still there in some degree. I may do it again.

 

[HawaiianReef]

Maybe consider an H202 dip or spot application to the skeleton... anything to lower the algae so the coral doesn't have to fight it. I have a favia that's having a "heck" of a time trying to recover over exposed skeleton that's been "Sequestered" by some hair algae. I've used a brush to apply h2o2 and that seems to have helped some, but the algae is still there in some degree. I may do it again.

I never heard of H202.
I see you're recommending it's use on lps, would it harm zoas?

 

[Hermie]

I never heard of H202.
I see you're recommending it's use on lps, would it harm zoas?

h2o2 is just hydrogen peroxide
I have never owned any Zoas, so can't say, I'm sure there's a post on here about it though somewhere
Does algae grow on Zoas? the h2o2 would theoretically affect the soft tissue or mucus layer, so it depends on how healthy the zoa is to start out with I suspect.

 

[HawaiianReef]

Ok thanks.
Yes I have a decent colony ( abput 70 or so polyps) on a small seperate rock that has ridiculous hair algae.
I was planning to pick them one by one and set them on a clean rock. I think picking them would be my safe bet.

Sorry if I hijacked the thread Morris