New Meteor Shower Cyphastrea health

[Brian1f1]

Hello, I got this coral Wednesday from Live Aquaria. By yesterday night it looked almost as if the blue/green layer was peeling off? It still seems to have flesh under that layer, and the polyps are at least partially extended.

Is the color peel a sign that it’s experiencing necrosis? I have it very low in the tank, with the hydra 26 HD on 50% acclimation mode running BRS AB+. Anything I should do for it?

Pictures are 1. With all lights on 100 just for a photo. 2. How I am running them, which messes with the camera. 3. A few minutes after the first shot, all the polyps opened wide, which seems strange so I snapped a photo.

Thanks!

Edit: for what it’s worth its mouths shut back up. Appears like maybe there are a few sections without flesh, bottom right corner, but I can’t be sure if that’s new.

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Doesn't look good, sometimes corals just don't ship well. Document your experience well and see if LiveAquaria will honor their gurantee with it.

What are your parameters like? Did you do a slow acclimation with it?

 

[Brian1f1]

Doesn't look good, sometimes corals just don't ship well. Document your experience well and see if LiveAquaria will honor their gurantee with it.

What are your parameters like? Did you do a slow acclimation with it?

I’m sure they will if it dies. It has a 30 day. It’s the only one of five frags struggling from that shipment. My gut was it seems bad, but it’s an odd way to go.

 

[DMG Reef]

Cyphastrea is extremely hardy. Mine is 2 yrs. old and has been stung by an anemone which left a dead area about a year ago. It healed completely in about a month. Then it tangled with a large mushroom and lost a 2 inch square of tissue. That also healed quickly. It has completely covered the rock I glued it on. As long as your chemistry is good, it will probably adjust to your tank in time. Sometimes corals are just too far gone to save, but as long as he has some healthy tissue, I think you can do it. Good luck!

 

[Brian1f1]

Cyphastrea is extremely hardy. Mine is 2 yrs. old and has been stung by an anemone which left a dead area about a year ago. It healed completely in about a month. Then it tangled with a large mushroom and lost a 2 inch square of tissue. That also healed quickly. It has completely covered the rock I glued it on. As long as your chemistry is good, it will probably adjust to your tank in time. Sometimes corals are just too far gone to save, but as long as he has some healthy tissue, I think you can do it. Good luck!

I really hope so. Those are some pretty impressive stories! I don’t know if it has much healthy tissue, you can see in the pics the blue layer has mostly peeled away. Maybe the under layer can survive? Very strange!

 

[DMG Reef]

I really hope so. Those are some pretty impressive stories! I don’t know if it has much healthy tissue, you can see in the pics the blue layer has mostly peeled away. Maybe the under layer can survive? Very strange!

On the bright side, since they grow like weeds, Live Aquaria will probably send you another one pretty quickly. My LFS is overrun with Meteor Showers. It might be better to contact the vendor soon rather than hoping it survives.

 

[Brian1f1]

On the bright side, since they grow like weeds, Live Aquaria will probably send you another one pretty quickly. My LFS is overrun with Meteor Showers. It might be better to contact the vendor soon rather than hoping it survives.

They have a 30 day guarantee. I don’t think they will send it unless I show that it’s dead first. I could try. Kind of bleak looking, I know.

 

[Devin Le]

I just recently received a cyphastrea that did the exact thing yours did. The colored layer seemed to peel off and the piece was bone white, after a day of so there was still polyp extension from it so I left it in the tank. Now today I have just noticed that the color on it is coming back.

 

[Brian1f1]

I just recently received a cyphastrea that did the exact thing yours did. The colored layer seemed to peel off and the piece was bone white, after a day of so there was still polyp extension from it so I left it in the tank. Now today I have just noticed that the color on it is coming back.

What a strange phenomenon. Mine is practically in a cave on the bottom with the lights on acclimation mode, so it’s not light shock.

Mine is still “alive” I think... it generally looks horrible, but doesn’t seem to be changing much. Here are some pics under regular spectrum and with the Leds cranked for detail. Did yours ever look like this?

 

[Devin Le]

What a strange phenomenon. Mine is practically in a cave on the bottom with the lights on acclimation mode, so it’s not light shock.

Mine is still “alive” I think... it generally looks horrible, but doesn’t seem to be changing much. Here are some pics under regular spectrum and with the Leds cranked for detail. Did yours ever look like this?

I don’t know if it’s just because my frag has a rough shipping. I thought that maybe my lights were up too high so I moved it to a shaded area. This is what mine looked like

 

[Brian1f1]

I had other corals, including a cristata in the order, and they are doing well. Ours both look terrible man!

 

[Devin Le]

I had other corals, including a cristata in the order, and they are doing well. Ours both look terrible man!

Yea haha the piece was real nice, literally a minute in the tank and I see the “skin” peel off. Now it’s coloring back up. I’d say it’s making a nice recovery.

 

[Brian1f1]

Yea haha the piece was real nice, literally a minute in the tank and I see the “skin” peel off. Now it’s coloring back up. I’d say it’s making a nice recovery.

I don’t think mine is recovering, but it could, I guess (hope).

And yeah man, mine started losing its skin within an hour or two, lost it all within a couple days.

 

[Brian1f1]

Yea haha the piece was real nice, literally a minute in the tank and I see the “skin” peel off. Now it’s coloring back up. I’d say it’s making a nice recovery.

Did yours come from LA too?

 

[Scorpius]

Cyphastrea need 100% indirect lighting until they adapt to your system. They bleach easy when put into a new system.

 

[Brian1f1]

Cyphastrea need 100% indirect lighting until they adapt to your system. They bleach easy when put into a new system.

Devin’s looks like a clear case of bleaching to me, mine is far less clear imo. It turned brownish after the blue peeled, not white, the polyps seem semi destroyed. Looking at the progression of mine, do you think bleaching is what happened?

 

[Scorpius]

Devin’s looks like a clear case of bleaching to me, mine is far less clear imo. It turned brownish after the blue peeled, not white, the polyps seem semi destroyed. Looking at the progression of mine, do you think bleaching is what happened?

Your's looks like stn/rtn. I would give it indirect lighting and see what happens. Cyphastrea are fast growers when happy so even if you save a tiny area of flesh it'll grow back. I'd still try and get my money back as you paid full price for a sick coral.

 

[LMDAVE]

I got mine from LiveAquaira about a month ago, and I've been in the same boat trying to find a spot for it out of the light. It's turned bone white, back to brown. The red polyps look good at night but the base color still hasn't colored up. I my final spot for it is on a rock ledge under my fiji Leather, it gets shade from that. My cleaner shrimp has taken possession of it and sometimes is on it like he's typing on a typewriter, lol. I dont know if that's a bad thing. But it's been looking better here now, and hope to eventually see it color back up and grow/spread here.

 

[LMDAVE]

My Meteor Shower from LA never did color up. it's been over a month in the tank in different spots, mostly shade. I saw some great colored frags of them at my LFS this weekend, so I replaced it with this frag. Color looks great from the get go.

 

[OriginalUserName]

This is mine from WWC (not a great pic). I think it needs a little bit more light (or less?) but it is encrusting on the frag wrack so I haven't messed with it yet.