Pico SPS tank

[Tony LCW]

Good.... things are recovering well. Continue to nurse them back to original. Good effort.

[Firestarter]

Bad news.

Came back this week with my SPS half dead.

Checked the temp and it was 28'C from the usual 24-26'C. My other tank is doing fine.

I guessed the HOB and wavemaker must have heated up the smaller tank quite abit.

Jade Green digitata and pink monti cap seem to have pulled through, along with some others.

[Firestarter]

Did a 50% water change and scrubbed the tank clean.

[Firestarter]

6 months after starting up this tank, would like to post an update of the recovery of the SPS, just for document sake.

Lost almost half of the SPS over the weekend due to kalk overdose. This tank has since been decom and the SPS are now back in my home tank.

Some pictures of the SPS that made it. Its been a good run and I'm glad I managed to save these corals.

The before pics are the same pics that were posted at the start of the thread.

First up, my best recovery of all, jade green digitata. Got it as a small frag (few cm), grew to out and was totally bleached, stark white.

Green monti & jade green digi sharing a small rock. Bleached.

Unknown monti. Injured but recovered and its now bigger and encrusting downwards.

Pink salmon. Totally bleached. Stark white.

Pink salmon. Totally bleached. Stark white.

Pink salmon. Totally bleached. Stark white.

Pocci. Browned out and waiting to RTN. Made a comeback after some TLC.

[reef garden]

Good job bro firestarter. Perhaps you can share what you did these 6 months to get these sps to recover? I'm sure this will benefit anyone with bleached sps. Thanks.

[Firestarter]

Miscalculated. Just realised that's its 7mths instead of 6.

[Firestarter]

Good job bro firestarter. Perhaps you can share what you did these 6 months to get these sps to recover? I'm sure this will benefit anyone with bleached sps. Thanks.

Low lights, low to medium flow, feed it alot and watch out on water params. As long as polyps show, its still alive. The coral will also turn brown first before colouring up.

[Admiraltian]

Gd job, bro.

[Firestarter]

Some of the corals may look slightly different from the before pic as I trimmed parts that were affected by algae.

Left this out.

Pink monticap which I would had kicked myself if it didn't recover.

[Patrick]

Low lights, low to medium flow, feed it alot and watch out on water params.As long as polyps show, its still alive. The coral will also turn brown first before colouring up.

Bro low lights mean a lot more blue and less white?

[Firestarter]

Bro low lights mean a lot more blue and less white?

More blue and less white is recommended, or place the SPS in a fully shaded area.

Most of the time when SPS bleach its because of high lighting. When bleached, they have already lost most of their zoox algae so they can't primarily rely on photosynthesis for food. Feeding more helps them to regain energy to get the zoox algae back. During this period, a low light is needed so as not to cause the algae to expel.

I observed that it took about 2-3 months for the SPS to regain back to a brown colour.

[Patrick]

Thanks bro I learnt something new today