It's alive

Just over a week ago I took in a very sick Acro.Now this thing came w/ flat worms and was already looking dead so I risked a fresh water dip to cut down the flat worms. It lived, polyps started to come out. Just a couple, than the next day a couple more. I can clearly see where the tissue was missing and the tissue that's left is getting darker. The color is kinda pink but at the moment more brown. I've been told that it will probably never be anything but brown.

How can I help this Acro regain it's color?

 

In this pic you can see where there is tissue recession. It isn't getting worse, but it appears to have gotten a little better.

 

I can not even begin to guess what type of acropora that is, maybe once it recovers more.

As long as the coloration is returning, you see some PE and parameters are in line it may have a decent shot at a recovery. I am actually surprised it did so well after a FW dip.

I would not be the least surprised if with the right lighting it colors up to something more than brown.

Good luck

 

Thank you, I seem to be running into a lot of negative thinking on my other forum. And I've been trying to guess at the ID but like you said it needs to recover a little more. Should I be concerned about it regaining color too quickly, because I heard it should take a while for the color to return. If it starts to go brown should I move it away from the lights? This is what it looked like the first day I had it.

It's the 1 in the middle

 

If it starts to pale or turn white put lower down, if browning higher or consider level of phosphates and nitrates IMO. All those corals have the potential to regain good coloration if provided with quality light. My only true brown acropora is a brown Formosa. I used to get frags all the time that were brown and given a couple months the coloration changes to something much more appealing it just takes time, lighting and stable parameters.

 

Cool! IME, if they come back, they do so quickly. I received a bleached bottle-brush acro from an online order. I was going to declare it dead and ask for a refund, but withing 2 days it started getting green. Withing a week had great PE and withing 2 weeks looked awesome. You just never know.
Typically if they go brown it is due to nutrients (usually N) or possibly insufficient lighting spectrum, but usually nutrients. So, I'm not sure why you'd move it down?

 

Okay now I am a little more sure of what to do w/ it. This is my first acro so I'm kinda winging it over here. I just got my nitrates down to 0 a couple of weeks ago, they were staying at 5 and thats been the norm for my tank. Other than that phosphates and ammonia have been at 0 so long I can't remember. W/ only 3 fish I feed lightly and will have my sump by fri., this week. I feel good about the whole nutrient issue at the moment. I have 4 54watt T-5s, and got a par reading of 300 at the top mid of my tank and 100 on the sand bed. The tank was a little cloudy the day I took the readings, so I think I get a little better par than that.

As far as them coming back quickly some one told me it was a slow proses, but I see w/ this acro that might not be true as it seems to look better every day.