sps turn white

[urban79]

I just got some sps that where just fragged. As soon As I got home and got them ready to put them in the water. they where starting to turn white. Then I would say about 4 to 6 hours go by and they turn almost all white. My water is fine. all my other sps are doing great and solf corals where in full bloom. So I know it was nothen. plus i did a water change the day befor and that day.

So please help. and tell me they didnt die. cause I spent a good chunk of change.


thanks jeremy

[JimD]

Can you get a pic up? Hard to say whether they bleached or rtn'd. Do you see any polyp extention or sloughing? IE: Tissue necrosis. Many things can cause this phenom, more details please. Acclimation procedure?

[matt]

Sounds like some sort of acclimation issue, if as you say your water is "fine". If you have had healthy SPS in that tank for a while, it probably is okay...so either the new corals were unhealthy to begin with or there was something in the transfer into your tank that caused them to bleach.

If these are acroporas, take heart as acros sometimes just revolt when moved from tank to tank. Salinity, temperature, ph, Ca, Alk levels all have a big impact on the corals. It's also at least theoretically possible that there's a salt incompatability. A while back lots of people experienced bleaching switching from IO to Bio-assay salt. When I was using Bio-assay, any coral that I got from someone using IO was likely to initially bleach.

[urban79]

Well The corals I got where from falocon. And when I did the acclination I did it with the bag in the water letting a cup of my water at a time. And all my sps are doing great. I mean the past month they have grown like a weed. So if I leave them alone they will grown. new pieces.????

JimD
Posted: Oct 31, 2006 - 10:55 AM

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Can you get a pic up? Hard to say whether they bleached or rtn'd. Do you see any polyp extention or sloughing? IE: Tissue necrosis. Many things can cause this phenom, more details please. Acclimation procedure?


I dont get what your saying about the tissuw necrosis. If you talking about the color skin part. when I was putting them in the water the color part was blowing off by the powerhead. and Ill try to get a pick.

[hobogato]

when I was putting them in the water the color part was blowing off by the powerhead. and Ill try to get a pick.

sounds like RTN to me. the two frags i brought home, the same day are doing fine. like matt said, sometimes corals (especially sps) inexplicably die when transferred.

[urban79]

that freaken sucks... so ace when can I come over and get some more frags.


And other ?
Is there any chance that anything will come back. Cause On my live rock I have a crustaion that was dead when I put in my tank and several month later it comes back. So I guess im asking is there any way that anything will come back.

[Ross]

If they rtn'd, no they cannot come back. They are totally dead.

[caferacermike]

I'd say leave tehm in for a week and see if they get fuzzy but are still clear or white. Iif so they will come back. But if the tissue was floating in the bag they are gone. I have some corals from that same sale and they are all doing great with no loss. My pieces were bought, acclimated to a different tank, within 24 hours were bagged up again and transfered to my tank.