How to recover bleached torch?

[brucieK]

Hi folks, I am trying to recover two bleached torch corals and I'm target feeding them twice a week. Unfortunately I have not observed any improvement. In addition to moving them to a low light area, what else should I do?

I guess I learned the lesson the hard way after I bought a new radion g5 light. Since I was new to the hobby back then, I set the intensity at 80%, bleaching all my corals... The torch each split 2 new heads but the color is no longer there...

Before/After photos attached.

Thanks!

 

[Turkeysammich]

Time. Try to keep parameters stable. Amino’s wouldn’t hurt. Dunno about torches. But people say it takes 3 months for sps to adjust. I’ve seen bleached soft corals stay bleached for super long. If your not getting tissues retraction. You should be ok.

 

[popper]

target feed?

 

[brucieK]

Time. Try to keep parameters stable. Amino’s wouldn’t hurt. Dunno about torches. But people say it takes 3 months for sps to adjust. I’ve seen bleached soft corals stay bleached for super long. If your not getting tissues retraction. You should be ok.

Thanks! I guess I will have to be patient.

 

[brucieK]

target feed?

I'm doing target feeding twice a week and there has been no improvement.

 

[JVU]

I'm doing target feeding twice a week and there has been no improvement.

The target feeding is to keep them alive since they aren’t getting energy from photosynthesis now

 

[Chromis]

I haven’t had any success with phycopure/zoox supplements for bleached corals. Like others said, time and good husbandry, feeding helps while they don’t get nutrition from zoox that they lost.

 

[brucieK]

The target feeding is to keep them alive since they aren’t getting energy from photosynthesis now

Thank you for the input! I recently have one head on the bleached torch with brown jelly disease and while taking care of that head some of the brown stuff spread out (because I forgot to turn off the flow...). Should I be concerned? I'm trying to set up a brand new reefer 350. Thanks!

 

[Chromis]

If it’s brown jelly you need to immediately remove any infected areas - others will chime in. Where do you guess the brown jelly came from (wild euphyllia online purchase, LFS or trade with feeder?)

 

[brucieK]

If it’s brown jelly you need to immediately remove any infected areas - others will chime in. Where do you guess the brown jelly came from (wild euphyllia online purchase, LFS or trade with feeder?)

Hi Chromis, I think it's from LFS. The head was not doing well for the past 3 months and had been receding to the point where the polyps were barely visible. I siphoned most of the brown jelly but some of it spread with the flow to the entire system... I have a couple thousands dollars of LPS in this system and I wanted to move them to a new reefer 350 that I'm currently setting up.

 

[H2OPlayar]

I would spot feed amino acids. They are a food source that are already broken down and easy for the coral to absorb and digest.

 

[Chromis]

Hi Chromis, I think it's from LFS. The head was not doing well for the past 3 months and had been receding to the point where the polyps were barely visible. I siphoned most of the brown jelly but some of it spread with the flow to the entire system... I have a couple thousands dollars of LPS in this system and I wanted to move them to a new reefer 350 that I'm currently setting up.

I would chuck it - chuck the whole thing. Not worth it spreading jelly and wasting your whole collection if the LPS you mentioned are also euphyllias.