Too late to save this trumpet coral?

[Psychonaut]

SOrry for the blues I can try to get a better shot if you need one

 

[Leslie Tabor]

That is pretty sad looking, I never give up on anything until it is dead dead but I don't think you can do much for that. Sorry

 

[Psychonaut]

No that’s ok, thanks I posted for honest input. I’m not sure what his problem was everything else in my tank is ok, Params in range.... think I had him in too high flow, so the polyps retracted and when that happened algae built up on the teeth of Thebes skeleton and it was never able to push all the way back out again

 

[Chady250]

SOrry for the blues I can try to get a better shot if you need one

Hmm I’d leave it in the tank for a few months My neon greens recovered after looking similar to that. This is an updated picture of it. Too bad I didn’t have a before shot for your reference

 

[Psychonaut]

Should I try to scrub that build up off the skeleton?

 

[John3]

It could come back if your parameters are good. I think I would check everything because are not too picky, so something could be far off.

 

[Psychonaut]

Just tested everything today m.

 

[LesPoissons]

I had a neon green that looked that bad and came back too. It's not beautiful yet for sure but it can come back. I wouldn't scrub it to clean it, I'd just let it be and get your parameters under control, looks like something else is going on?

 

[LesPoissons]

It can come back. I'd just leave it be and get your parameters under control, they've been all over the place.

 

[Psychonaut]

Yea I mean tanks only 5 months old, and it took me awhile to figure out how much kalk I was going to have to dose to keep everything level, but with the exception of the spike and drop that happened 3 weeks ago when my chaeto died I feel like everything has been RELATIVELY consistent. I mean I’m not sure what those kits standard deviations are but that Alk has been within 9.5-10.5 pretty consistently for about 3 months now, is that really too much swing? I also have a torch, a frogspawn, acan and Favia that are happy, you don’t think it could have been the flow?

 

[John3]

The spikes and drops in alk and phosphate could give some corals trouble. Flow can always be an issue. Trumpets can take s good but if flow. So long as their tissue is not getting pushed into their skeleton they should be fine.