I need help with a red cap! please

[MikeG]

Monti caps can tolerate amazing swings is parameters and recover. Also a couple hours in a bag is nothing, think about corals that are shipped overnight and do fine. I had 3 different frags of monti caps in my tank and shut it down for 6 months, circulation was left on but lights were turned off and these 3 frags came back and started to grow again when I started back up that many months later. I was pretty amazed anything would survive that.

As far as the color change goes, if it came from a tank with MH and you are putting it under PC, it will definitely look a different color. Leaving the coral in the same tank and changing to a different bulb can make it look a different color.

What are you actual parameters for salinity, alkalinity, calcium, and magnesium? I am always a little curious when people say all parameters are good without listing any.

If parameters are good it should recover in time.

 

[stingythingy45]

The only times I killed a cap was dosing way too much alk supplement.
It simply rtned in no time.

 

[DoctaQ]

montis can do fine under PCs, and so can most of those corals, including the birdsnest, but what is a pronto?

alk is definateley a good test to have..and the api one is cheap and good.

it seems to me that perching fish also have a negative impact on montis, even if they dont nibble on them .

 

[ReeferMedic]

I have to agree with leaving it where it is at this point. It could take weeks or even months, but orange caps are especially good about adapting to different light conditions. Purple caps, not so much. If it's stressed to the point of bleaching, you'll probably kill it if you move it now. Are there still polyps, or did you see flesh coming off the skeleton?

 

[Royalty]

I grew a pretty big orange cap with PC lighting.But,I will say that not all PC lights are the same.I had a JBJ 260 watt that put out lots more light than coralife junk does.
Anyways,I agree that you water parameters are probably off.
Not having a simple $8 alk test kit from API is a BIG negative.
Also,why are you dripping corals?JMO,but only snails should be drip acclimated.
All others should have water added to the bag or container till half is your water.This should take 1/2 tops.
Then the coral taken from the water and placed low in the tank at first.

I figured I should of did it the regular way the guy at the LPS to me to dip acc

 

[Royalty]

montis can do fine under PCs, and so can most of those corals, including the birdsnest, but what is a pronto?

alk is definateley a good test to have..and the api one is cheap and good.

it seems to me that perching fish also have a negative impact on montis, even if they dont nibble on them .

thats what DZ6t told me it was?

 

[Royalty]

montis can do fine under PCs, and so can most of those corals, including the birdsnest, but what is a pronto?

alk is definateley a good test to have..and the api one is cheap and good.

it seems to me that perching fish also have a negative impact on montis, even if they dont nibble on them .

I have the api test

 

[Royalty]

I have to agree with leaving it where it is at this point. It could take weeks or even months, but orange caps are especially good about adapting to different light conditions. Purple caps, not so much. If it's stressed to the point of bleaching, you'll probably kill it if you move it now. Are there still polyps, or did you see flesh coming off the skeleton?

no not yet

 

[ReeferMedic]

no not yet

I'd leave it where it is and see if it adjusts to the conditions. Some montis can do "fine" under pcs, but when you go from halides to pcs, it's a huge adjustment. Purples and blues would be brown under pcs, orange and green seem to be more resilient.