Pocillopora loosing tissue! Ideas?

[esmithiii]

I bought a Pink pocillopora frag about a month ago. it was shipped from TX from a fellow reefer. When I got it, it had some tissue damage, but my montiporas suffered similar shipping damage but later recovered and grew back over the damaged areas.

When I got the coral, it was reddish-brown. In a few days it lightened up to a bright pink under my 400W Iwasakis. Now it seems to be loosing some tissue in some new spots. Any ideas?

Here are some photos of when I got it and how it looks today:


May 10, 2002- New in the aquarium:

May 17, 2002- One week later:

June 10, 2002- How it looks today:

Should I be worried? Should I move the coral? It is about 1/2 way up the tank with medium water flow. Everything else in the tank looks absolutely great. The other corals I got from this reefer are growing and look incredible.


Ernie

 

[JeremyR]

Looks like you bleached it.. what kind of lights was it under prior to you recieving it?

I've seen bleached pocillo recover.. give it a chance, it may very well make it.

 

[esmithiii]

I believe it was under 250W iwasakis. The person I got it from suggest to place it in the middle of the tank.

The tissue where it is white is definitely gone, not just bleached.

Ernie

 

[PapFinn]

I had a similar occurence with some acro. Every day i just gave it a gentil blast with a turkey baster to keep algae from growing on the skeleton. Eventually it fully recovered all its lost tissue and is doing well now.

 

[JeremyR]

Ernie,

What I should have said was the tissue still living looked bleached. The dieoff is probably related to the stress of being banged up coupled with the bleaching.. the other posters advice is sound.. don't let bubbles/algea accumulate on the dead skeleton and it may grow back.

Good luck