Any hope for my bubble?

I purchased this green cats eye about 4 weeks ago. It was healthy and around the size of a softball when fully expanded. Well anyways it took me about an hour and a half to get home before I could acclimate it and since then it hasnt been looking really well.
It got worse when a turbo knocked over a rock and landed on top of it. Then situation gets even worse when my return hose got loose, drained half my sump and got water into the electrical outlet, leaving me having to let the tank run without lights and a sump for a week. During that time I rearranged my rocks and everything since I had to add another overflow.

So my tank is back up now. I switch from a 2x150w mh to 4x56w T5s. But my bubble is still not fully expanding. Its hanging in there but Im not sure if it can make a recovery.

Here are pictures of it.





Could it be possible that its not fully expanding because its producing new heads? I found these 2 little things near the bottom of it, but there's no tissue close to them


I also noticed that my flow was kind of high and it looked kind of bleached, so I move it to the corner of my tank with less flow and less light.

Results from my water test:
SG: 1.025
pH - 8.5
Ammonia - 0
Nitrate - 10
Nitrite - 0
Calcium - 510ish

Thank you in advance

 

It doesn't look good. It can still recovery, but you can see the skeleton obviously and the green algae growing on parts of it. I would try to maintain as stable parameters as possible and try feeding it.

 

Periodically target feed it some brine or mysis shrimp about an hour after lights out. (when the lights go out, put a small amount of coral food in the water so it pulls out it's feeding polyps).

 

Out of curiousity, why did you go down in wattage on the lights?

Just wondering.

Mark

 

As of now, I'm doing water changes every other week to lower the nitrates. Would frozen cyclopeeze work as a stimulator? Or should I get something like marine snow or coral frenzy?

MMcDonald: I didnt want to but my parents were getting upset about the electricity bill and the cost of cleaning up the living room from the incident. The fixture was old anyways.

Anyone have a clue about the two little polyps under the bubble?

Thanks guys, I will try to update my progress. Hope this guy can make a full recovery.

 

That's perfect

 

Things to consider out side of your parameters would be insufficient lighting, current, feeding. BTA’s are found to contract to the point of seeing the skeletal base as they cleanse themselves – or more to the point, purge themselves.

Your BTA has really retreated, but to answer your specific question – yes, he can recover.

I wouldn’t move the BTA as you are going to cause it more stress, he can move himself if he desires. A BTA on the move generally indicates an issue. But if you feel you had improperly placed him initially than your one move was warranted.

Your parameters you posted look good, but what is your Alkalinity ?

The best way to nurse an ailing BTA back to health would be to feed it 2 or 3 times a week – small pieces of meaty food no larger than its mouth and keep up the water quality.

 

I have one that after much trauma detached from it's skeleton, I tried to keep it in a low flow place in hopes it would survive. Eventually it was swept away in the current. This was six months ago and a couple weeks ago it re-appeared and it's all bleached out. So you never know with them!

 

Hope your bubble recovers I have a huge one myself and love even though it ate one of my fish.

I hope yours pulls through

 

Thanks everyone for the help. Unfortunately it didn't make it. I tried feeding it but its tentacles never came out. I can see the inside of the skeleton and all the other pieces are just deteriorating away.

But those two little polyps are still attached on the side. Im not sure what exactly they are, but they look like of like the feeding tentacles of bubbles. Would it be possible that its another bubble forming?