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Dieing Plate Coral need some pointers.

Erick

Erick

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I was given a plate coral to try and nurse back to health, the people I got it from have low lighting so i thought that might be one of the reasons it looks so bad. You can see the skeleton around the edges, and the flesh seems really sucked in. When I put it in my tank last night, it puffed out but now that the lights are on it's back to how it looked in their tank.

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That looks like my brain coral did when it started to die. If the tissue keeps retreating steadily for the next few days it's on its way to dieing, but if it has been like that for a few weeks or so then you might be able to nurse it back to health. I've only had experience in brain corals and acan corals. I've never kept plate coral before so I'm just basing it on other corals that I kept like that one. I'd say just keep it under high lights but don't place it high in the aquarium. Since the people who gave it to you had low lighting I'd place it in the middle or bottom section of the tank depending on how high the lights were. Give it good water flow but not too much because that may cause more tissue loss. If you have hermits or shrimp in the tank they will pick at the dead tissue causing more tissue loss which in that case I'd isolate it in a breeder box for fish if you have one but if you don't have one then figure out some way to keep it away from the hermits and shrimp. Don't let the pH go too low or too high. Keep it at 8.2-8.4 and make sure the water quality is kept very good. Keep us updated on how it is doing. ;)
 
Make sure your alk, Mg, and s.g. are in a good range.

Even if it recedes all the way to bare skeleton, just leave it in your tank. The skeleton might produce babies weeks or months later.
 
So with the success of me letting the plate coral get better. I took another coral from my friend who is the death of corals :) This time it's a scoly same problem, the skeleton shows around the edges, but just like the plate I don't know what a scoly needs. This is the type that gets super huge not the really tight and almost perfectly round ones.
 
How did your plate coral do? If it got better, then perhaps the scoly will too.

If water conditions are on, and it is eating well, then it may just need time.
 
Plate coral is perfect, the edges are fully healed, and now the brown middle is coloring up.
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