Will Bill Murray pull through?

[Red_Beard]

I got an order of sticks in (battlecorals, adams stuff rocks, let me preface this post with that) on tuesday, they all looked fantastic, polyps out happy sticks! Except Bill Murray. He must have gotten car-sick on the truck as within an hour in the tank he had puked off about half his tissue. And proceeded to continue to do so for the next few days. I immediately put it in a shaded spot on the sand, and as of thursday night, the RTN has stopped leaving a small portion of the base. Today(saturday) that portion is looking much better and even has some polyp extention! What are the odds he pulls through for a miraculous recovery?

 

[Formulator]

Unfortunately I’d say slim to none. That’s a gonner. The problem is that it lost all its tissue so will basically have to encrust new growth over the white part, not just somehow recover what was once there. Algae and diatoms will quickly grow over the skeleton and likely irritate that small remaining portion to death if it doesn’t die off on its own.

 

[KrisReef]

I don’t think it’s a good time of year to shop for coral online. Maybe experience has been similar and it is difficult to watch.

Hope I am wrong.

 

[Uncle99]

Toast, sorry.
Algae will take hold and win.

 

[Aquariumaddictuk]

Yep.
That's gone.
Algae will swoop in.
I had the same last summer with a shortcake.
It overheated in transit

 

[Red_Beard]

Unfortunately I’d say slim to none. That’s a gonner. The problem is that it lost all its tissue so will basically have to encrust new growth over the white part, not just somehow recover what was once there. Algae and diatoms will quickly grow over the skeleton and likely irritate that small remaining portion to death if it doesn’t die off on its own.

Ya, that has been my experience too. i have never seen a coral 'reclaim' bleached skeletal structure, but, i have had some very small pieces of living tissue grow new growth. Never yet an acropora though. I had a seriatopora that was mostly dead and came back with new growth never did reclaim the dead stuff though, as well as a small flat chunk (about 5x5x1 millimeter) of forest fire digi that i glued to a frag plug for grins to see what it would do that has now grown into a respectable little frag. would be really neat if ole Bill pulls through!

 

[Formulator]

I don’t think it’s a good time of year to shop for coral online. Maybe experience has been similar and it is difficult to watch.

Hope I am wrong.

Ya, it was well over 100 degrees in the midwest last week. Things should start to cool off in a few weeks here.

 

[Aquariumaddictuk]

As a last ditch I'd cut what looks to be the tiny healthy portion off and plug it.
Slim it will work but I don't think there's anything to lose by trying

 

[Red_Beard]

I don’t think it’s a good time of year to shop for coral online. Maybe experience has been similar and it is difficult to watch.

Hope I am wrong.

6 out of 7 are looking great still. Just poor Bill. Shipping was even on time, left monday and showed up tuesday afternoon.

 

[Red_Beard]

Ya, it was well over 100 degrees in the midwest last week. Things should start to cool off in a few weeks here.

OOF!! We lucked out with some light rain showers and it was a beautiful 70 degrees here (eastern Utah) for that whole time-span.

 

[Red_Beard]

As a last ditch I'd cut what looks to be the tiny healthy portion off and plug it.
Slim it will work but I don't think there's anything to lose by trying

That, I think, is what I will do. Give it a few more days to stabilize a little more and trim it up good before the algae takes over. It isn't hurting anything where it is (except my heart, lol).

 

[Dburr1014]

I got an order of sticks in (battlecorals, adams stuff rocks, let me preface this post with that) on tuesday, they all looked fantastic, polyps out happy sticks! Except Bill Murray. He must have gotten car-sick on the truck as within an hour in the tank he had puked off about half his tissue. And proceeded to continue to do so for the next few days. I immediately put it in a shaded spot on the sand, and as of thursday night, the RTN has stopped leaving a small portion of the base. Today(saturday) that portion is looking much better and even has some polyp extention! What are the odds he pulls through for a miraculous recovery?

Yes, give it a week at least. I see polyps.
Never give up!
What is living now, looked dead 3 months ago.

 

[Red_Beard]

Yes, give it a week at least. I see polyps.
Never give up!
What is living now, looked dead 3 months ago.

Thank you for the rays of hope Yours looks like it is going to recover nicely and has a lot more tissue mass now for sure!

 

[LARedstickreefer]

I don’t think it’s a good time of year to shop for coral online. Maybe experience has been similar and it is difficult to watch.

Hope I am wrong.

This is why I’m holding off an any new stuff for a few months. Too hot now.

 

[Biff0rz]

If you were closer I'd offer you a free large chunk of mine. Grows like a weed in my tank, need to remove some now anyways. But yea, that thing is a goner. Toss it in the calcium reactor if you have one, lol.

 

[JoJosReef]

 

[Dburr1014]

Thank you for the rays of hope Yours looks like it is going to recover nicely and has a lot more tissue mass now for sure!

How's it going? Any updates?

 

[Red_Beard]

No major changes one way or the other, still looks exactly like the last pic. I am hoping that is a good thing, as no more recession, and new growth may take some time.

 

[Red_Beard]

Here he is tonight, ole Bill is a fighter! I think he just might pull though!

I have some time Wednesday i am going to cut the dead skeleton away. There is one of the tips with about a 4x4mm patch of life i will keep too for grins. Also i am kind of curious if it can/will grow and if so how fast.

 

[Dburr1014]

Here he is tonight, ole Bill is a fighter! I think he just might pull though!

I have some time Wednesday i am going to cut the dead skeleton away. There is one of the tips with about a 4x4mm patch of life i will keep too for grins. Also i am kind of curious if it can/will grow and if so how fast.

Nice!
Being that small of life, it takes some time. Once it gets going you'll notice though.

I'm happy you left it in and didn't give up. If everything is stable, there's always a chance.

Looking forward to next week's update!