dead bubble coral, and babies popping months later on the skeleton

[paininthewrasse]

I bought a huge neon green bubble coral at least 6-8 months ago it recouped well from the normal LFS reccession because they're so fragile.. it got back to 100% perfect and gorgeous.. I also had a longspine sea urchin that my mother purchased and it was small @ the time.. but grew to the size of a soccer ball.. One day i was looking @ my tank and I see the urchins spines digging into the bubble coral as he tryed to climb down the wall of the tank.. needless to say the bubble coral did not make it.. I took the skeleton and put it in the back of the tank where it got a ton of light actually because it was wedged up against the glass w/ a huge peice of LR.. anyway I looked @ it today and I saw that there are tiny little clusters of baby bubble coral on the old skeleton!! Its pretty amazing, I've heard of like plate corals doing this but not bubble coral.. anyone else have this sort of experience?

I'll post pics soon.

PITW

 

[nmprisons]

sounds very cool. i would love to see the pics.

 

[Therhusky]

I had a huge bubble coral get cooked from a heater mishap, and it looked as if it was completely gone. But within a few weeks it now has some growth on it.

 

[chocodile]

I have heard they could do that. Any pics?

I have been trying to rescue a bubble from a local Petco. Every time I go there the coral looks worse. It is very close to dead. So I asked if I could buy it for cheap. One guy says 20% off and another says full price. They say they would rather let it die and then sell as "live rock".

 

[paininthewrasse]

petco sux they have a bleached bubble coral by me as well..

I didnt get a chance to take a photo.. i'll try again tomorrow

 

[bobafett]

I had a blasto do that once. I thought it was completely dead but kept it in the tank as liverock. About a month later there were tiny blastos sprouting.

 

[rlm2005]

This is my first post but I had to chime in. I have a green bubble coral that died back when my tank overheated this summer. It is now sprouting 3 babies on it. Funny thing is, one is white and two are more brownish looking, I assume they will be more green as they develop.

 

[paininthewrasse]

Mine are green but not NEON green like the original colony was.. Sorry guys still working on the picture.. I have to borrow the neighbors camera.

PITW

 

[paininthewrasse]

and welcome to Reef Central rlm2005

 

[Charlie97L]

all stony corals can do this... if there are a few cells that live in the skeleton, it can come back... it's pretty common with SPS as well.

now, no guarantees it will come back, and it often takes months, but it can.

 

[ek9vboi]

If it is coming back to life then leave it in its current area no matter how "nice" it looks. Something must be going on right that they decided to come back within that area.

 

[Ladipyg]

I had someone give me their skeleton from a bubble coral and I just threw it in the fuge and forgot about it...a couple of month later I'm trimming some Chaeto and there are about 30 babies on the skeleton. I used a pair of very fine needle nose pliers to break the babies off of the skeleton, low enough so they had a base and super glued them on chunks of live rock and frag discs....once they were off of the skeleton they went crazy with growth...I spot fed them mini mysis and within 2 months most were over 1.5 inches and I sold or traded all but one.