Is my trachy toast

[willisd]

I have had a beautiful trachy for 9 months that was doing great until a month or so ago and due to pump adjustments became damaged. This was on the backside of the coral and caused my cleaner shrimp to more aggressively attack and eat off it.

I no longer work from home and sadly did not catch this in good time until there was skeleton showing. I have dipped it, pulled the coral and placed it in my low flow acan tank.

It had been a few days and it takes well to the dip but I have had to turkey baster out bits of dying flesh to keep it from being infected. At this point the wounded skeletal area is clean from debris and the cleaning crew isn’t bothering it.

I don’t know if I am wasting my time attempting to save this peice if I am risking all of my acans. I have found little advice online avout trachy coral recovery so I thought this could serve as a thread to help future reefers.

 

[willisd]

These are photos from when I transferred it over Tuesday

 

[willisd]

For others in the future, the reason you likely aren’t finding threads about successful trachy recovery is that it doesn’t happen often.

After about a week watching it go down hill I have pulled the plug today to prevent disease on my other acans.

I found this in a thread on lobos and it’s quite true:

“One thing I have found with Lobos (and many "LPS" species, for that matter), is that once the health of the coral is compromised and an infection shows up, it's often just a matter of time before the whole specimen goes down. And, quote honestly, it seems that every crab, snail, or picky fish in the area hears the "dinner bell" and lines up to take a bite or two out of the denuded coral tissue..Seems to be an irresistible treat!”

I could not keep urchins, hermits and others off it. The dips were getting worse with more and more tissue shedding and disease every night. It really flunked the smell test tonight too.

I will let this be a painful lesson to learn, and for others Do not ignore if your trachy is closed for prolonged periods after flow adjustment

Rest in peace. Here’s him in his glory days.

 

[JonoH]

I had one half eaten by a Blue Tang, was dipped in Coral Infection Elimination, then moved into a seperate frag tank with a bit lower flow than my display.

Has come back 100%.

 

[willisd]

Maybe that’s a better dip than what I used. Mine was just wasting away. Too much damage in the center