Curing bleached acros

[FuEl]

In this months TFH..there was this article on innoculating bleached sps with zooxanthellae from other healthy sps. Supposedly the bleached sps is put into a mixture of seawater with scrapped tissue from a healthy colony (should be similar species if I'm not wrong..they did'nt really say.) And the bleached sps will somehow take up the zooxanthellae in the mixture. The resulting color of the bleached sps will then be the same as that of the healthy sps. What you guys think of this method? Anyone tried?

[SharkBait]

Zoox should be brown or green. The colour we see on the acros are actually UV shielding pigments. i dont think that can be transfered right.

[FuEl]

Hmm..could uv shielding pigments be in zooxanthellae themselves? Pigments do have to exist in cells right? Since zooxanthellae utilize light it is possible that these pigments exist in the zooxanthellae themselves..which is why when corals expel their zooxanthellae they lose most of their color...and the rest of their tissues appear rather white?

[SharkBait]

Just checked the borneman book. Seems that this method might work.

[Creetin]

wow. very useful, this info.

question is how u scrap off e zoo from e healthy colony? wif some piece of plastic?

[SharkBait]

wow. very useful, this info.

question is how u scrap off e zoo from e healthy colony? wif some piece of plastic?

You scrap off the tissue from another acro. I wonder if this will trigger RTN?

[FuEl]

Razor blade? Imagine..maybe you can turn brown birdnest into super pink birdnest using this method?..

Nah...a healthy colony won't rtn. Another way is maybe to frag of some outer branches and then scrape the tissue off. At least making a clean break should prevent rtn. Alot of stories about acros growing into huge colonies then start to rtn..if nothing changed most likely is the weaker strength of water flow reaching the inner crevices, enabling debri to settle, attracting bacteria and other pathogens and thus resulting in rtn..

[Creetin]

You scrap off the tissue from another acro. I wonder if this will trigger RTN?

guess u have a point too. only way to find out is to try, hehe.

scary!

[FuEl]

Any volunteers? I would love to try but my current tank is not sps ready...must wait till the diatom bloom over..

[Creetin]

i have an idea.

frag off the branches, and then place in front a powerhead (2000l/hr)...

when the deed is done, soak the bleached ones in the juice......*sLuRp*

[SharkBait]

i have an idea.

frag off the branches, and then place in front a powerhead (2000l/hr)...

when the deed is done, soak the bleached ones in the juice......*sLuRp*

By the time the deed is done, you wont have anymore tissue on the branch to soak.

[FuEl]

i have an idea.

frag off the branches, and then place in front a powerhead (2000l/hr)...

when the deed is done, soak the bleached ones in the juice......*sLuRp*

They won't be bleached...all their tissues will get blown off and there will only be skeletons left. A better bet would to blast them under MH.

[Creetin]

i meant to do it a container. after that the container will have all the tissue in there to soak......

after all, shouldnt the zoo be in the cells that are in the tissues?

[FuEl]

Oh...kinda misread it...

[Chris]

Does it make sense to scrap off tisuue from a healthy one (thus killing it) to TRY getting the floating zoozanthellea to re-attach to a already RTNed one. In the end, minus 1 plus 1 = 1!. Plus risk of getting 0!

[alanseah]

hmm why dont just place the RTN one near the healthy one.. at least this will let the health one "eat over" to the dead one.. and expand itself..

[SharkBait]

Does it make sense to scrap off tisuue from a healthy one (thus killing it) to TRY getting the floating zoozanthellea to re-attach to a already RTNed one. In the end, minus 1 plus 1 = 1!. Plus risk of getting 0!

You guys seems to have misread the content, it says curing the bleached ones, not the RTNed ones.

[Chris]

Isn't it the same. the method still require the zoos from a healthy one to move to a bleached one. One has to be sacrificed! Worth the try or not?

[Joe_P]

Isn't it the same. the method still require the zoos from a healthy one to move to a bleached one. One has to be sacrificed! Worth the try or not?

There is a higher chance of recovery for bleached acros compared to those with RTN....

A RTN acro dosen't need zoos.... they need reefers with CFD (Complusive Fragging Disorder)..

Like the idea regarding introducing of zoos to bleached SPS...

Jus like those aquacultured clams ....

If this thing works, I"ll chase the zoos out of my brown acros......

[FuEl]

hmm why dont just place the RTN one near the healthy one.. at least this will let the health one "eat over" to the dead one.. and expand itself..

If the dead necrotic tissue from a rtn acro lands on a healthy acro the healthy acro most likely will start to rtn too. It has been said to be contagious..I have experienced it myself..my birdnest colony was first stn..then somehow one day it decided to rtn...bright pink frags downstream of the colony started to rtn too.Those upstream did not rtn. A point to think about..

[Creetin]

If the dead necrotic tissue from a rtn acro lands on a healthy acro the healthy acro most likely will start to rtn too. It has been said to be contagious..I have experienced it myself..my birdnest colony was first stn..then somehow one day it decided to rtn...bright pink frags downstream of the colony started to rtn too.Those upstream did not rtn. A point to think about..

yeah, heard/feel about it too, issit that contagious?

u toking even if the rtn tissue is from other species?

Its funny how the good things happen singularly, and the bad happen everywhere!

If so, once there is an RTN portion, remove from the tank immediately?

[FuEl]

AHaha..think you start a new thread better..later mods make noise..