dead monti, now alive???

[jasonj90]

i keep mostly zoanthids and lps corals. i have had some monti cap frags that i had good growth with too. anyhow i had 2 frags one was a neon green and the other a nice orange color, and over night the 2 pieces bleached (they looked completely dead, no polyp extension for 2 weeks or so) as my other corals showed no problems. so i removed the pieces from where they were to make room for other frags, and put the assumed dead pieces in the sand. its been almost 2 months and i am beginning to notice that the orange piece is now almost completely back to color! is this something that happens frequently?

 

[slavearm]

Not frequently. I left what I assumed was a completly dead ultimate blue stag coral in my aquarium mounted to the rock for 4 months after my crash. I will be darned if the whole thing didnt start growing back from two little specs that survived 4 months after the crash. Now 4 weeks later, it has recovered about half of it's skeleton and has started forming about 4 new branches.

I also had the same thing happen with an orange monti cap piece that had broken off. I didn't see if for a couple of weeks and when I found it, the color was gone and no polyps. Left it on the sand in the light next to my goby den, and wala, color started returning about 2 weeks later.

 

[jasonj90]

i cant wait to see this thing color back up, it was a very nice piece that i recieved from a friend, it started at about 1 sq inch, and grew to about 5 sq inches! this only took about 3 months.

 

[miwoodar]

I bought a monti cap frag that had badly suffered under the shading of the mother colony. When I purchased it only a small portion was green (25%?). The pale portions were so pale that I really didn't think they had a chance. Within a month all of the flesh had completely recovered.

 

[tomndeb]

nice