Is this Scoly worth saving?

[Ann_A]

I found a nearly dead scoly at my LFS the other day and brought it home for free. Almost all of the tissue has receded, but it does extend a few feeder tentacles at night. I dipped it in bayer and then lugols before introducing it to my tank. It’s in a low flow, low light position to try to reduce stress on the remaining tissue. My current plan is to do a series of iodine dips to help it recover.

Does it look like it’s worth my time? If so how often should I be dipping it? Also should I attempt target feeding, or would that add unnecessary stress? I’ve never revived a coral that was so far gone, so any advice would be welcome!

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

Personally I would let it be, repeatedly handling it to dip might overly stress it. Good luck.

 

[gkprevite]

Wow this one is pretty far gone. But there is flesh so there’s definitely hope. Your introductory dips were absolutely the right call as well as your placement. I wouldn’t target feed it at least not yet. Let it capture tiny food particles from your regular fish feeding, that should be more than enough. Judging by the color on the remaining flesh it looks like it will be stunning once recovered! Keep a close eye the next couple of weeks to see if the flesh is growing or receding. If it’s growing or staying the same maybe a lugols dip in a few weeks but maybe not worth the stress. Definitely worth saving. I feel anytime there’s still flesh it’s worth trying to save it. You’ll be proud of your efforts when it turns around. I have a 20 head acan colony that started as a booger that can off a colony that I damaged while moving its one of my favorites for that reason. Keep us posted

 

[dwest]

I would keep it, but just let it be.

 

[Ann_A]

Thanks for help everyone! I’ll definitely leave it be for now as advised. Hopefully it’ll turn around. I just couldn’t say no to a free Scoly!

 

[DSC reef]

You would be amazed how an LPS can come back from a skeleton. I witnessed it with a large chalice colony I had and and a scoly I thought for sure was long gone. Here's to hoping it comes around

 

[Shinji Ayanami]

I found a nearly dead scoly at my LFS the other day and brought it home for free. Almost all of the tissue has receded, but it does extend a few feeder tentacles at night. I dipped it in bayer and then lugols before introducing it to my tank. It’s in a low flow, low light position to try to reduce stress on the remaining tissue. My current plan is to do a series of iodine dips to help it recover.

Does it look like it’s worth my time? If so how often should I be dipping it? Also should I attempt target feeding, or would that add unnecessary stress? I’ve never revived a coral that was so far gone, so any advice would be welcome!

every coral is worth saving.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Hoping that it will turn around for you!

 

[Ann_A]

every coral is worth saving.

That’s why I took it. They were just going to toss it so I figured I’d try to give it a chance.

 

[StartingATank]

That would be nice if it came back because it seems to be a bleeding apple or reverse bleeding apple, or maybe even a rarer one

 

[BryanM]

If it has flesh, which yours does, it has a chance.

For me, I've never had one show this much skeleton and NOT have algae grow on the exposed skeleton.

If algae does grow on that exposed skeleton, it won't cover it. and I've never been successful at removing the algae :(

 

[Anonymous'Reefer90]

HolaHello a friend from my city due to its high amount of phosphates in its tank it happened similar to the image you uploaded, he gave it to me to see if I could make it walk again and the road has been long but not so impossible, it was the same or worse than yours I attach an image of how it is going today

 

[Ann_A]

HolaHello a friend from my city due to its high amount of phosphates in its tank it happened similar to the image you uploaded, he gave it to me to see if I could make it walk again and the road has been long but not so impossible, it was the same or worse than yours I attach an image of how it is going today

That looks great! Thanks for the inspiration.

 

[thamnasteroid]

I found a nearly dead scoly at my LFS the other day and brought it home for free. Almost all of the tissue has receded, but it does extend a few feeder tentacles at night. I dipped it in bayer and then lugols before introducing it to my tank. It’s in a low flow, low light position to try to reduce stress on the remaining tissue. My current plan is to do a series of iodine dips to help it recover.

Does it look like it’s worth my time? If so how often should I be dipping it? Also should I attempt target feeding, or would that add unnecessary stress? I’ve never revived a coral that was so far gone, so any advice would be welcome!

If there's flesh, there's a chance, just make sure the skeleton doesn't grow algae so it can recolonize it

Also, is that a button scoly or something? The skeleton doesn't look like Homophyllia australis, and looks a lot like caribbean Scoly skeletons (although it's unlikely to be that)