birds nest question

[LCP136]

I had a green birds nest coral that fell from its spot and mostly died and bleached out. I eventually was able to recover it, and there is one tip of a branch that is still alive, maybe a half inch long. Is there any chance that a tiny piece of coral like that could survive and grow, eventually into a full colony?

 

[SPSEMPIRE]

I had a green birds nest coral that fell from its spot and mostly died and bleached out. I eventually was able to recover it, and there is one tip of a branch that is still alive, maybe a half inch long. Is there any chance that a tiny piece of coral like that could survive and grow, eventually into a full colony?

yes, I have seen several colonies grown from a small frag or even a piece of tissue. HTH

 

[jvo87]

yes I've had a small nub of a piece break off the colony and fell into the back of the tank with barely any light and flow. found it when I was cleaning my tank and it was completely bleached all white no color on it whatsoever and now it's a decent sized frag

 

[blakers82]

Yes. IME birdsnest is a pretty tough coral. I had a purple calliendrum that RTNed and abruptly exploded with life back over its skeleton. Wait it out and you might be surprised.

 

[M007]

You have a viable frag :celeb1:

 

[LCP136]

Great! Thanks everyone.

 

[nolanrob123]

Post some progress pictures of it. I am always amazed at how some of the sps grows back.

 

[LCP136]

Well... Half of the tiny section of live polyps just bleached randomly. All my other SPS, LPS and softies are fine. Birds nest just always crashes in my tank. I've had a colony of red birds nest die off and now this one is crashing, so maybe I should lay off the birds nest.

 

[LCP136]

The little piece bleached, and now the color is back. I think the frags may be growing a little bit as well.