Plate Coral rehab journey

[MischiefReef]

Hey all, for anyone who’s interested I just wanted to document an ongoing treatment for my fungiid (plate) coral.
This coral was damaged during transport, (it rolled over in the bag somehow and arrived face down.) when received and put in the tank, skeleton was showing through flesh in certain places as well as 2 significant scrapes showing bare skeleton along ~3inches of skeleton radiating from the mouth.

Needless to say I had an injured coral and needed to act fast!
I immediately prepared an overdosed iodine dip, I used 10mil seachem reef dip in 1 liter of water, and dipped for 1 hour using a turkey blaster to occasionally circulate water. After this dip I returned it to the tank for observation

After 24 hours I noticed the flesh was continuing to recede. I decided to proceed with a stronger treatment. I used hydrogen peroxide at dip strength suggested by Justin Gravel’s guide. Below is after the peroxide dip.

Day 3 after peroxide dip

Day 4

Day 5 injury appears to be healing

Day 6 (Today) injury no longer visible when polyp tentacles inflated.

Will post more updates if anything drastic happens.

Hope this helps someone if they ever encounter damaged or distressed looking fungiid corals!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Glad to see that it is doing better!!

 

[Bucs20fan]

THAT is how you fast act for a coral!
Bravo.

 

[MoshJosh]

Awesome job! I had a similar plate that started to look like the first couple pictures. . . and it never recovered. But good info and I could try an iodine dip if it happens again. Out of curiosity what are your N and P?

 

[MischiefReef]

No3 is 10-20 PO4 is 0.05 (have softies in the tank right now so a bit higher)

 

[MischiefReef]

Day 8 injury barely visible even with polyp tentacles semi retracted, completely hidden when tentacles out

Day 9: Wounds are visibly healed over, bare skeleton is recovered with flesh

 

[FlyinAg]

What does the hydrogen peroxide do for healing? Is it being used as a disinfectant?

 

[MischiefReef]

Yes, it’s primarily used to disinfect. For certain corals, particularly LPS varieties, the peroxide dose they can handle is pretty much enough to nuke anything else in the dip. I use 350ml peroxide per liter on certain corals!
I think I read somewhere that it promotes the healing speed, but I would not have any idea if or how that worked.

 

[Jgoal55]

How is this Coral doing today? Still looking good? Just dipped mine and hoping for similar result.

I have three plates and two of them are doing great but one is receding around the edges I’ve had it for 6-8mos and it’s been perfect. This seems to have come out of nowhere.

I have added other corals to the QT tank that it’s in so I’m thinking bacterial. Went straight to peroxide

 

[Jgoal55]

My plate is definitely doing better but not bouncing back quite as quick as yours. It did stop receding however.