SPS regeneration

[kase1084]

Hi folks,

I got some SPS by mail order about a month ago. Unfortunately they arrived with severe shipping stress and RTN’ed less than 24 hours after their arrival. So I claimed a credit from the LFS and bought something else, throwing them to the back of my tank behind some rocks to the “elephant graveyard” where I hoped they might add to the hiding spots I have for my copepod population. I was trying to find another one that fell between the rocks and found this one which appears to be regenerating? I can’t easily blow it off. What do you guys think? Recovery of some sort of algae?

 

[kase1084]

Also might add there’s no obvious polyp extension (though in one photo it looks like there is- it’s substrate).

Parameters
Ca 430
Mg 1360
Alk 8.0
Nitrate 11
Phosphate 0.09

 

[kase1084]

Note the bleached glitter lepto in the background, this and three encrusting monti’s also arrived in poor condition. I am getting slow recovery from those guys. One of them montis looks like a goner though, but I remain hopefully. They’re all in the bottom third of the tank and target fed three times a week.

This shipment was a disaster!

 

[Acro Junky]

It might be cyano growing on it. Can’t tell

 

[305]

Yea that thing is dead and I’m with the prev comment. That’s just cyano on it. Unfortunately.
It looks like a wild piece.
Ud have much more success with some beginner aqua-cultured