Trachy and plate coral help.

[Shawnman]

I bought this trachy at the expo a month ago and did not notice that the center had a tear. That appears to be getting a little worse. Also on the bottom of it, there is a 3/8 in diameter hole that does seem to be getting better I'm not sure what happened there. Looking for a prognosis on that.

Also this plate coral lost a lot of tissue today. I believe this happened because where I placed it last night, I moved it, it was sitting in a different place than where sitting at right now. I moved it to a spot that unknowingly had more direct flow and where it was at. I just moved the last night so it's obviously something to do with me moving it because I was doing fine.
What do you guys think , are my corals going to be okay

 

[JoJosReef]

I find with trachys, the best way to heal them up is to feed them, assuming the water conditions aren't killing them. LPS pellets, Med-Large TDO pellets, cut pieces of krill, etc. I also find they respond nicely to some oyster feast or ROE shot directly on their face with the flow turned off. That gets them opening up to eat the bigger stuff quickly. Best to also feed the rest of the tank too so they don't swarm the trachy to steal food.

RE: the plate, I prefer placing my plates between a few corals as a "barrier reef" for the plate so it doesn't get blown too hard. Some like to glue theirs down on tiles/plugs. This is fine even though it isn't their native state (they are free and able to move around on their own naturally). The benefit is that they don't end up upside down or in the incorrect place and don't get excessive amounts of sand in their flesh, which can kill them. IMPORTANT: if the plate has exposed skeleton and you see sand wedged between the "ribs", you should take the plate out and extract the sand either with very find tipped tweezers (REALLY fine, like poke yourself and bleed fine) or what I use, sharp grilling skewers to pop the sand pieces out with the tip. They tend to take longer to heal or not heal at all if they have sand between exposed skeleton. Plates also heal better if you feed them the same way as the trachy above.

I find feeding them frequently when sick/healing (4-5 days/week) is helpful, while they can go once or twice a week when healthy. Hope that helps!

 

[BryanM]

No pics.

Agreed with spot feeding the trachy, and getting him in lower light and flow while he recovers.

Plates are weird for me. I have to green plates that are thriving, and two orange/yellow plates that are struggling.

 

[Shawnman]

No pics.

Agreed with spot feeding the trachy, and getting him in lower light and flow while he recovers.

Plates are weird for me. I have to green plates that are thriving, and two orange/yellow plates that are struggling.

Sorry I forgot the pics.

 

[code4]

I had a trachy that almost died. Felt like a hard rock. I put it in lower flow area and it recovered. Even made a plexiglas cage with dozens of hole drilled in it to cover it while it healed. That was years ago. It's huge now. Lower flow and light. Same with the plate. I noticed that mine suffer if nitrate and phosphate have bottomed out. Good luck. My plate coral arrived with most of its tissue sloughing off. It is recovered. Flow, lighting and parameters helped mine.

 

[Shawnman]

That's an awesome trachy, great job saving it . I think my trachy is going to be okay but this plate coral looks bad. The front half is nothing but skeleton while there is tissue on the back half. I don't know if I should pull it now so that it doesn't follow the tank or if there's any hope that it will recover.

 

[Shawnman]

I fed it tonight,reef roids,music and little tdo b2 pellets. It did not show much of a feeding response compared to my other trachy. My other will show it's feeder tentacles on the outside of the mouth , while the other one did not, the mouth got bigger and seemed to accept the food, but did not really show a feeding response. It is inflating properly however and appears fine except for the tear.

 

[DSC reef]

I would just try to keep them from strong flow, not under direct light and try feeding a couple hors after the lights go out. With the plates and trachy I used to have, they showed a crazy feeding response after the lights were out. Id look at the tank with a flash light and it was so cool. I fed a mix of LRS and reef nutrition fridgerated foods. Those corals were pretty durable and usually heal very well in time. Here a couple pics from my 75 I used to have.