UV burn...what to do??

[neoh]

what all came from this disaster?

[christyf5]

I ended up losing 3 fish: a kole tang, powder blue tang and midas blenny. All of the frags on my frag rack from CoralMaster and a friend up north who was preparing me for the tank move with bonus frags, died as well. I think I lost about 25+ frags. The large pocilipora colony survived as well as a "hitchhiker" frag on the side of an aquacultured acro. The aquacultured acro's underbranches came back and are growing in nicely. The cyphastrea survived as only the top part was badly bleached. All of the coralline on the top of the rocks was burned off and the rocks were stark white for some time but have coralline on them again.

I put glass shields on all of my reflectors. Its much easier to clean now and although the regal tang still splashes the bloody things at least it will just be the glass that breaks and not the bulb.

[muck]

Good to hear Mr. Purplepants survived that fiasco.
Too bad about the frags...

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by muck

Good to hear Mr. Purplepants survived that fiasco.
Too bad about the frags...

Mr Purplepants is such a wussy he probably hid in the rocks the whole time. This time it saved his arse. UV burn has to be one of the worst things I've ever seen on a fish (aside from those monstrous "to the bone" lesions I've seen on salmon). Yeah it really sucked about the frags, I've gone through photos and have my "wish list" which I'm slowly working away at. Sadly I think some of them aren't (easily) replaceable as Sarah lost some colonies over the winter. I hate it when you lose friendly freebies, nothing like going back to the person "uhh, remember that stuff you gave me? Can I have it again?"

[Chaloupa]

If I still have it, you're welcome to a chunk..but I lost TONS over the winter. And my tank is just starting to look like it's worth looking at anyways.

So sorry to hear about your trouble ... I seem to have missed this thread.