How is acro bleached, but polyp extension still good?

SilvermistInc · Mar 15, 2023

I'm really really confused.

Battlecorals · Mar 15, 2023

SilvermistInc said:
I'm really really confused.

Wow. Definitely on the way out but odd for sure. Whatever ticked it off clearly affected the tissue and not the polyps so much

I had this happen to a tank full of montis years ago after I dislodged a buried Zoanthid rock. Had been buried for months and totally rotting in the sand but was contained. Within minutes of exposing the rotting polyps all my montis looked like that. Oddly enough acros were unaffected and I think most of the montis did eventually recover. I have a few pics of them somewhere.

curious what was going on in The tank prior to this and is anything else looking off at all?

SilvermistInc · Mar 15, 2023

Battlecorals said:
Wow. Definitely on the way out but odd for sure. Whatever ticked it off clearly affected the tissue and not the polyps so much

I had this happen to a tank full of montis years ago after I dislodged a buried Zoanthid rock. Had been buried for months and totally rotting in the sand but was contained. Within minutes of exposing the rotting polyps all my montis looked like that. Oddly enough acros were unaffected and I think most of the montis did eventually recover. I have a few pics of them somewhere.

curious what was going on in The tank prior to this and is anything else looking off at all?

I have a theory that a double whammy of a new set of powerheads, and experimenting with dosing caused this. But what I'm really confused about is why are the polyps happy as can be? Wouldn't they be the first to go?