Cyphastrea going brown

brycenelson · Dec 8, 2022

I have had this Cyphastrea for over a month and it has been doing very good in my tank. The other day a hermit crab was climbing on it and knocked it over face down into the sand. Since then it has lost its most of its blue color and is now turning more brown and the polyps used to be open all the time now they are closed. Will I ever get that same blue color back?

Salinity 1.024
Alk 10
Calcium 440
Nitrate 5 ppm
Phosphate .25 ppm

Lost in the Sauce · Dec 8, 2022

Cyphastrea are quite resilient.

brycenelson · Dec 8, 2022

Lost in the Sauce said:
Cyphastrea are quite resilient.

Ok I hope it comes back it was doing so well.

HB AL · Dec 8, 2022

They are tough, it will look normal within a few weeks.

Seansea · Feb 13, 2023

Hows your cyphastrea doing now?

malenia · Feb 13, 2023

Mine got stressed and turned brown as well. It's been almost a month without changes, but I can actually see it growing new polyps... hopefully it'll go back to blue with more time

brycenelson · Mar 21, 2023

Seansea said:
Hows your cyphastrea doing now?

The Cyphastrea has made almost a 100% recovery it had completely died browned out only 1-3 polyps kept the orange and the skeleton where it had died was starting to peel off. I got my parameters fully in check in mid-late January then it has been recovering since. I think this is the thing I am most proud of in the tank because I watched it die and nursed it back to health.

brycenelson · Mar 21, 2023

malenia said:
Mine got stressed and turned brown as well. It's been almost a month without changes, but I can actually see it growing new polyps... hopefully it'll go back to blue with more time

The Cyphastrea has made almost a 100% recovery it had completely died browned out only 1-3 polyps kept the orange and the skeleton where it had died was starting to peel off. I got my parameters fully in check in mid-late January then it has been recovering since. I think this is the thing I am most proud of in the tank because I watched it die and nursed it back to health.

Seansea · Mar 21, 2023

Grats bro. Always a good feeling to keep these rare and disappearing from the planet life forms alive that we harbor in outr tanks.

malenia · Mar 21, 2023

brycenelson said:
The Cyphastrea has made almost a 100% recovery it had completely died browned out only 1-3 polyps kept the orange and the skeleton where it had died was starting to peel off. I got my parameters fully in check in mid-late January then it has been recovering since. I think this is the thing I am most proud of in the tank because I watched it die and nursed it back to health.

mine is still looking so so, growing new polyps but still brown