Bubble coral melted away.... Then...

jetta

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So a while back I purchased a green bubble from my lfs. I shouldn't have bought it. The bubble was already melting away but I couldn't resist and the price was next to nothing. I thought maybe it would pull through. Well after a few weeks it looked pretty bad in my own tank so I moved it out of sight behind some live rock.

about a month later a friend noticed a very small green bubble coral on the old green bubble's skeleton. I pulled the skeleton out from behind the rock to find about 20 seperate small bubble corals growing all over the old skeleton. The best part is there are both pink and green bubble corals growing. Time to seperate and get credit at the lfs.

I am assuming that ever bubble coral recovered from a small piece of tissue that didn't completly die away on the original bubble.

Just thought I would post up so maybe others don't completly give up on a dying lps like I did.
 
Happens quite often. If an lps dies, don't ever throw out the skeleton right away, just tuck it out of the way and see if anything comes back.
 
I had the same thing happen with a green bubble. I now have 3 large healthy bubbles from the skeleton.
 
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