Ultra Rainbow Goniopora Question

[bkreitler]

I introduced a new Ultra Rainbow Goniopora coral to my tank a few weeks back. I may have placed it too high in the tank because within a matter of days, about 50% of the polyps fell off. I immediately moved it to the bottom of the tank where the vast majority of polyps remaining fell off leaving the bare skeleton. Is it a goner or will the polyps come back in time? All of my other LPS and SPS corals are doing fine and many are thriving; so I don't know if I just wait and let time heal the coral. Looking for feedback/suggestions. Thank you!!!

 

[James M]

If there’s no polyps on the skeleton anymore then it’s a goner

 

[Simsung]

Its very likely gone unless there is some tissue left.

 

[boeingn747]

I introduced a new Ultra Rainbow Goniopora coral to my tank a few weeks back. I may have placed it too high in the tank because within a matter of days, about 50% of the polyps fell off. I immediately moved it to the bottom of the tank where the vast majority of polyps remaining fell off leaving the bare skeleton. Is it a goner or will the polyps come back in time? All of my other LPS and SPS corals are doing fine and many are thriving; so I don't know if I just wait and let time heal the coral. Looking for feedback/suggestions. Thank you!!!

My first question would not be the lighting. It would be the parameters or some hard metal in your water. That is not common for a coral to die within days because of lighting. It might not open for days because of light and then you correct the problem and it may be passed off and slowly come back. If you had polyp bail out or something else where the tissue just fell off within a few days, I would really tell you to check all parameters. Find out what the water was where you got the coral. Maybe they kept there's at something much different and your tank shocked it into suicide. Copper will cause lps corals (most corals for that matter) to die and bail withing a very short time. Other hard metals will do the same. I had a salinity swing one time when switching over a system and I had some birdsnest corals blow their polyps immediately. There are reasons for it, however in my experience light is not one of them. Even if the lfs had the coral in low light and you put it in 300-400 par lighting you would still see some signs of a coral in distress before the polyps bail out. If it were me I would check all your parameters immediately.
Ph, salinity, ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, calcium, alk, mag. Then contact where you got the coral and ask them for their parameters or go get a sample of the water it came from and check it your self. If that doesn't tell you anything, get a copper test kit, or have your water tested further. I hope you figure it out. Don't focus to hard on the lights though.