Blue tenius released all "blue"

[subman]

It is hard to tell from the picture but it does seem to be half blue and the other half algae covered.

[Proteus]

I had this happen to a piece last week. It shed its flesh. I moved mine to less flow and it started to come out again but I new something was wrong because polyps wernt out for two days. Check your parmeters I had a small phosphate spike.

[lastlight]

If you bought it like that it was already on its way out when you got it. The tips were already missing tissue. I hope nobody sold it to you like that your pic shows a coral in serious trouble.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by chandigz

If you look at your picture you can already see the flesh peeling and receding. It already has 50% skeleton showing. The timing of the tissue releasing and the light going off was purely coincidence. That coral was allready in serious trouble.

I always thought SPS are colored from inside and doesn't have any outer tissue :P

Yah I guess this thing doesn't ship well.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by Titus99

I had this happen to a piece last week. It shed its flesh. I moved mine to less flow and it started to come out again but I new something was wrong because polyps wernt out for two days. Check your parmeters I had a small phosphate spike.

Yap checked the params (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate, kh, ph, calcium) and all of them are in check. I feel like color blind when testing for phosphate but I am pretty sure its below 0.05ppm.

[Aquattro]

No, they have the white calcium skeleton, then that is covered with layers of tissue, within this tissue is the varying pigments and algae.

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by lastlight

If you bought it like that it was already on its way out when you got it. The tips were already missing tissue. I hope nobody sold it to you like that your pic shows a coral in serious trouble.

Oh I didn't buy it; it was a freebee

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

No, they have the white calcium skeleton, then that is covered with layers of tissue, within this tissue is the varying pigments and algae.

Oooooooo. That clears a lot. Now I get why the new branches are white initially :P Thanks for the lesson

[reefwars]

you running carbon???


lol sorry i had too

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by reefwars

you running carbon???


lol sorry i had too

Ah you are starting another carbon thread

I don't run any carbon in reactor but I just put a bag of aquaclear carbon in the filter. I don't like smelly water :P