"sunburnt" monti expected recovery?

[pseudorand]

I have a couple of new Monty frags that started to bleach. Assuming too much light is the problem I turn down my lights and move them to the bottom of the tank. If too much light is really the problem what will the recovery look like? How long should it take color to start coming back?

 

[lapin]

So I fried one of mine. Not sure if it was light or alk. I left it since it would be hard to remove. 2 years later it is just now starting to grow back in spots.

 

[pseudorand]

Hum. In a way that makes me hopeful. But it doesn't help me decide if I should start screwing with other params or if I can start turning the lights back up for my other corals. :(

But thanks for the reply, of course.

 

[Seaspirit]

I have a couple of new Monty frags that started to bleach. Assuming too much light is the problem I turn down my lights and move them to the bottom of the tank. If too much light is really the problem what will the recovery look like? How long should it take color to start coming back?

Great question, have same issue. Have you seen any color return yet?

 

[Deephouse_jedi]

When I messed my encrusting one up it took about a month before the vivid colors came back.

Do you dose Iodine? When I first got montis they started to look bleached. When I did a water change they came back to life. It ended up being my iodine was too low. I now dose Iodine daily. Something to look into if you don't see improvement.

 

[AcroNem]

I agree iodine can help if it's depleted. As for recovering a bleached coral, stable parameters and feeding will help, it takes time. Corals can take months or longer to look normal.

 

[pseudorand]

Great question, have same issue. Have you seen any color return yet?

No. It's totally dead, along with all other sps in my tank, and some lps like acans, candy canes and favias have shrinking flesh and I think will slowly die. My Duncan, most of my zoas and palys, xenias and muchrooms are doing well though.

 

[Seaspirit]

When I messed my encrusting one up it took about a month before the vivid colors came back.

Do you dose Iodine? When I first got montis they started to look bleached. When I did a water change they came back to life. It ended up being my iodine was too low. I now dose Iodine daily. Something to look into if you don't see improvement.

Did you check your iodine levels? I lost a peppermint shrimp to molting and thought it was low iodine, got a test kit and checked - level was fine. So I have iodine but haven't used it.

 

[((FORDTECH))]

So I fried one of mine. Not sure if it was light or alk. I left it since it would be hard to remove. 2 years later it is just now starting to grow back in spots.

When you say or alk do you mean having to high of alk with too low of nutrients?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Some reasons are :
High Mag
High alk
Insufficient water flow
Too much o
r little light
Monti eating nudibranchs or red bugs

 

[Dark_Knightt]

When I messed my encrusting one up it took about a month before the vivid colors came back.

Do you dose Iodine? When I first got montis they started to look bleached. When I did a water change they came back to life. It ended up being my iodine was too low. I now dose Iodine daily. Something to look into if you don't see improvement.

I have heard iodine is something that should be dosed with montis, I've read many threads where people said their monti caps or encrusters were dying due to low iodine. Im starting to dose the Red Sea Skeleton ELements, comes with calcium, magnesium, carbonate, strontium, iodine, potassium and bromine. The whole plethora of necessary elements :)