Is there a Doctor In the house?!

I just got some corals for free from a guy who is moving and wanted to just give them away. Sounded too good to be true.....:-/
Well...
Im not sure if it was that fact that he had an 80 gal with no skimmer or filter...or the fact that his light bulbs were old and burnt looking...or if it was the coral beauty and green serpent starfish that did them in
But these corals look like massacre victims.
Is there any hope for a coral that has a significant amount of skeleton showing?
He claims they look better than they did when he bought them....but who knows?
***PICS COMING SHORTLY....ACCLIMATING AT THE MOMENT
Also need IDs as they are unrecognizable to me.

 

I wouldnt put em in my tank.... who knows what they are hitch hiking. even after a coral dip I wouldnt put em in my tank.

 

If any of the colony of coral is intact it should be able to make a comeback if you are providing the right conditions if you want frag the healthy parts off of the dead part or just leave them be for a while and I think they should be ok.

 

Well, you probably know how that sentence ends. If anyone would give away that which could summon a small fortune; there's got to be a reason.

The whole "they look better now than they did when I got them" ploy sounds like saving face to me. Who would admit, "they looked great when I got them, and now they look like death."

I'd keep them in quarantine before putting them in a working reef tank for fear they'd contaminate my healthy tank.

I've heard many times of folks who jeopordized their inhabitants attempting to nurse some livestock back to health.

Careful! :-/

 

Thanks all.
They don't look diseased, but then again they don't look good either.
Im uploading pics at the moment. Not great pics because they are just floating in bags.

I know that a few pieces are looking pretty doomed, but a few look like there a little hope.

 

you might want to dip them in a solution like revive to help them along.

IMHO, unless they have flatworms or acro eating nasties on them, you really can't do any harm to the current tank inhabitants by trying to nurse a couple corals back. Give it a shot.

pics??

 

The bad thing is, from the LFS he said he got them from, I believe that they probably are in about the same state as they were in the store. I wont mention names, but they sell dying anemones and half dead corals to any one willing to pay the price. Its sad.
If anyone can identify these sorry looking wretches, I'd appreciate it.

#1 this one looks terrible

#1 Only a little bit of life left in the tips

#1

#2 Looks slightly better in color

#3 Looks really bad

#3

#3

#4 Has more flesh, but is pretty pale

#4

#4

#5 Looks the best out of all of them. Is actually alight green, but cam didnt capture that.

#5 Looked a lot better before it closed up.

 

1 and 2 and 3 are euphyllia. So either torch , hammer or frogspawn. Hard to tell until it gets happy.

4 is an open brain, a trachyphyllia or a wellsophyllia, and the last one is a favia posibly.

I say give them all a chance. I bet most will come back with a little care.

 

Is there anything I can do to help nurse them back to health?
Do any of these require target feeding?
Should they be placed high, middle of tank, or low?
(Im not too knowledgeable on anything other than zoas and mushrooms)
ANY ADVICE, CRITICISM, OR COMMENTS ARE NEEDED AND WELCOMED!!!
Call me crazy, call me stupid, just as long as theres some kind of constructive criticism in there that could help me out.

 

Frogspawn love light.

You have a 4 bulb t-5 setup correct???

Wellsos are a sand dweller.... i think