a small mirical in my tank.. you won't believe this if you don't see it

[five.five-six]

I should have taken photos 2 weeks ago, every tip on this tricolor had algae growth on it, 4 weeks ago there was no color, no PE, it looked as if it had completely RTNed like so many of my other acros had that day. if it recovered I figured that I would have 30 1/2 inch frags to fix it, but it appears to be recovering, I will chronicle progress

here you can see various stages of tip recovery

a closeup of one of the worst ones

every tip in this photo had brown algae on it 2 weeks ago

here is my prized lime in the sky. it was literally being dropped in the trash 4 weeks ago as it looked completely RTN you can see the shoot in the background, as well as about 80% of it did not make it. as I was dropping it in the trash, I caught a whiff of "live acro" smell and said screw it, and it went back in the tank, until 10 days ago, the only hint of life on the corral was a conspicuous lack of algae on portions of it

 

[afelder]

congratulations

 

[alohagreg]

survivor!

 

[Bebo77]

LOL... im a survivor.. i am going to make it....

 

[coast2coast7390]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11420091#post11420091 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bebo77
LOL... im a survivor.. i am going to make it....

thats perfect...haha

 

[Frankysreef]

acropora do that... just when you think they are dead...they come back.
.. only sometimes though...

 

[coast2coast7390]

dont they have a defense against intruding cells

 

[Sharkbait1]

So what did you do? Anything ? What do you think brought them back from "death"

 

[five.five-six]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11421947#post11421947 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sharkbait1
So what did you do? Anything ? What do you think brought them back from "death"

I did about 160 gallons or W/C on a 100 gallon tank in 4 days, which in itself caused a lot of loss, but had i not done that all would have been dead in under a week