CA2OR Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 I have a birdsnest that was starting to do extremely well in my tank. Well my anemone decided to move and rested for a short period of time next to it before I noticed. My anemone is a professional at making morphs out of birdsnest frags(scratch), he changes them from color full to white and polypless...DOH! Anyway he stung the (cussing) out of it and now it looks like this a majority of the main stock is white and the polyps have lost their color. The remaining quarter of it is untouched. Will it recover? You can kind of see the damage here. Sorry was messing with camera and got a little too close of a close up another shot. You can see how stock is turning brown and even white in some area's. How high in my tank should this be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Reef Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 I have a birdsnest that was starting to do extremely well in my tank. Well my anemone decided to move and rested for a short period of time next to it before I noticed. My anemone is a professional at making morphs out of birdsnest frags(scratch), he changes them from color full to white and polypless...DOH! Anyway he stung the (cussing) out of it and now it looks like this a majority of the main stock is white and the polyps have lost their color. The remaining quarter of it is untouched. Will it recover? You can kind of see the damage here. Sorry was messing with camera and got a little too close of a close up another shot. You can see how stock is turning brown and even white in some area's. How high in my tank should this be? We find ours does best under Medium-High flow, with Medium lighting. It looks like the anemone didn't hurt it too bad. It should more than likely recover. Ricky Soutas Jr. -Soutas Saltwater & Reef Inc.- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePremiumAquarium Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 It looks like the coral wasn't hurt too bad. Also I think you might just have a Pocillipora sp. there. Could be wrong but it looks to have thicker branching on it and the polyps look to be elongated and resemble pocillipora. Nice stuff and grows fairly quickly! Garrett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
epicenter Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 I would take a pair of scissors after that carpet & make a couple of throw rugs outa it.LOL,,,,JK I feel for ya, I have a carpet about 16" acrost & he knows he can do abouy whatever he wants. Good luck with the recovery. peace out After further review I noticed you never mentioned a carpet,guess it is ingrained in my mind that these guys reakeee havoc...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA2OR Posted July 18, 2009 Author Share Posted July 18, 2009 it is dead. Thanks anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsoz Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Sorry to hear that Eric. It was a nice piece. I was just about to say that I have had pieces smaller than that survive to full recovery after being stung. I have a monti that was down to 2 polyps, and is now growing strong and has about 15 polyps. I am hoping for a full recovery. dsoz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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