Coral ID

[ReefRookie22]

Hi,
I just got a free coral with an order and I have no idea what it is.
The photo is under white light but it was a lot more brown when I first dipped it. The brown seems to be rapidly being replaced with white (in the last 6 hours).
My first guess would be leptoseris but I have no idea.

 

[Hairyteeth]

Lepto

 

[thamnasteroid]

Leptoseris

 

[ReefRookie22]

Any idea why it's going white?
It's happened since I got the delivery 6 hours ago.
Is it bleaching?
Retracting?
Sulking as it was dipped?
My lights are pretty underpowered, 100 PAR at most at the surface so likely closer to 50 where the lepto is, maybe less.

 

[bluemon]

Any idea why it's going white?
It's happened since I got the delivery 6 hours ago.
Is it bleaching?
Retracting?
Sulking as it was dipped?
My lights are pretty underpowered, 100 PAR at most at the surface so likely closer to 50 where the lepto is, maybe less.

Yea it’s not happy and almost dead.

What dip did you use? What are the tank parameters?

 

[BryanM]

I wouldn't mess with it too much, but certainly raising it in the tank might help....

Usually corals don't go south this fast though either.

 

[Hairyteeth]

Don’t raise it in the tank leave it in the sand bed… as someone previously asked what dip did you use and what concentration?
Did it look like this when you took it out of the bag or shortly after?

 

[ReefRookie22]

Coral looked fine when I took it out of the bag.
Dipped it using RedSea DipX.

 

[Hairyteeth]

Coral looked fine when I took it out of the bag.
Dipped it using RedSea DipX.

What was the ratio of dip to water you used?

 

[ReefRookie22]

Whatever was recommended.
1:100 I think it was.
I did 5ml in 500ml for 15min.
It's supposedly a gentle dip as mostly essential oils.

 

[ReefRookie22]

Yea it’s not happy and almost dead.

What dip did you use? What are the tank parameters?

2 weeks on and it doesn't look any better. It's going brown and fuzzy which I assume is algae.
I'd take it out of the tank but there is something glowing when you look under blue light.
Will it cause any trouble in the tank if I leave it?
I'm really not that attached to it but would like to save it if all it needs is time.

 

[Giek]

I would definitely not throw it away. It looks decently healthy to me. You can clearly see a white dead skeleton where the original coral was, but there’s a brown, thick, softish (healthy) tissue over the original frag. The “fuzzy” you see, looks like polyps to me. I don’t know your par levels, parameters, … but I would consider keeping the lepto down on the bottom for a while. Generally corals do recover better if kept in the low tolerable range as far as lighting (for leptos, they can stay in quite dark without issues usually), this helps thicken the tissue. You can track the recovery by the brown darkening over time.
In a few weeks it should look a lot better, maybe you can spot it growing back over its original skeleton, and it will be time to move it up again so that it can gain some color back. But usually corals need to be healthy overall before coloring up nicely.

Lately, I do prefer to not dip my corals, but rather thoroughly inspect them, and dip them just in case I see something particularly strange. Despite how gentle the dip can be, already stressed corals may react quite bad, and if you keep adding just softies, I wouldn’t mind dipping the corals (as softies bought from reputable sources don’t usually carry any particularly bad nasty)

 

[ReefRookie22]

Definitely browner, still not sure about the polyps as can't find pictures of any other leptos with polyps like this.
Also glowing more under the blues. Something is growing, just not sure what!

 

[FinalMac]

I still like Bayer. It's cloudy, so you don't see anything, but i've never lost a coral. It is gentle. Use a white container and then slowly pour it out you can see whatever's on the bottom, dead.

 

[thamnasteroid]

Definitely browner, still not sure about the polyps as can't find pictures of any other leptos with polyps like this.
Also glowing more under the blues. Something is growing, just not sure what!

On second thought, it does look a lot like Agaricia. That would be very unlikely though, as those are Atlantic endemics. Still likely a Leptoseris, but other options might be Pavona

Edit: it's likely Pavona

 

[ReefRookie22]

On second thought, it does look a lot like Agaricia. That would be very unlikely though, as those are Atlantic endemics. Still likely a Leptoseris, but other options might be Pavona

Edit: it's likely Pavona

Great shout on Pavona. That definitely looks closer.

 

[thamnasteroid]

Great shout on Pavona. That definitely looks closer.

It's likely something like danae or venosa

 

[ReefRookie22]

Green Pavona!