Hot, Hot, Heat - The after effects

[Atomikk]

Also the excess vitamin c will be used as a food source for your bacteria to grow. Its a win-win.

[bowkry]

My skimmer is doing the same thing its a R2K and its just bubbling and no sludge is coming out??? Did you get a huge alge bloom now??? My tank is green and red

[christyf5]

those sps that survive and don't continue to shed tissue will likely recover (barring any further tank/heat issues) and may grow over the old skeleton, they may also just continue to grow new branches etc and the exposed part of the skeleton might just remain dead looking.

as for getting some life back in your rock, I'd suggest that bacteria in a bottle stuff (like cycle or stability). I used some for my tank crash and it seems to have done the trick or at least helped out as I haven't seen any really ugly algae blooms other than the usual crap on the glass.

[Hairytank]

Sorry to hear about the losses. The same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago for the same reason.
Sorry to say the corals that RTN'd and shed did not recover, but the ones that just washed out (white), but kept the polyps are starting to get thier colour back.
The reason for telling you this is...It will take a while for things to recover, but they will.

[Ron99]

Sorry to hear about that Kelly. If you need a frag of the green birdsnest I got from you let me know. I may be able to frag some other stuff for you once you get the tanks stable again too.

[KPG007]

Thanks to all for the replies and suggestions. I was in a huge panic when I posted this as I was heading out of town for another week (thus the reason for no earlier replies), and didn't know what to expect when I came home.

Before I left, I got the heat under control, and did a couple water changes. What I came back to was very similar to what Christy and Hairytank said. The remaining SPS had partially Rtn'ed (some survived just fine - like the birdsnest, but thanks for the offer Ron), but no more died after the temps were stabilized. Unfortunately I now have a hair algae problem to deal with!
Some of the partially RTN'ed colonies will have to be fragged up, but generally I'm quiet relieved with what I came home to.

So now another question. The main tank survived relatively untouched, but there are a few pieces that are bleached out (like white). There is no algae growing on them yet, so I believe they survived. How long does it normally take for a SPS to color back up? Is it weeks or months? one and a half weeks now, and they are still white.

[Atomikk]

Originally Posted by KPG007

Thanks to all for the replies and suggestions. I was in a huge panic when I posted this as I was heading out of town for another week (thus the reason for no earlier replies), and didn't know what to expect when I came home.

Before I left, I got the heat under control, and did a couple water changes. What I came back to was very similar to what Christy and Hairytank said. The remaining SPS had partially Rtn'ed (some survived just fine - like the birdsnest, but thanks for the offer Ron), but no more died after the temps were stabilized. Unfortunately I now have a hair algae problem to deal with!
Some of the partially RTN'ed colonies will have to be fragged up, but generally I'm quiet relieved with what I came home to.

So now another question. The main tank survived relatively untouched, but there are a few pieces that are bleached out (like white). There is no algae growing on them yet, so I believe they survived. How long does it normally take for a SPS to color back up? Is it weeks or months? one and a half weeks now, and they are still white.

It all depends on many things. I would just leave them alone. If a lot of algae starts growing on the dead parts of the coral, then I would just snip those parts off.

If you have intense spectrum light (ala 400W 10K, or similar), and your parameters are the same (just like they were before this event), then it would tkae you a few short weeks.