Did my maze brain survive?

[rffanat1c]

So I sold all my LPS and softies back in August. I pulled my maze brain off its rock and it had grown onto it unbeknownst to me and left some part of it on the rock. This rock sat in a bin with water for a few days until my tank restart was complete. Now three months later it appears it is growing. Will it build its own skeleton again?

 

[ReefWreak]

I'm fighting Green Star Polyps and have my rocks covered in zoanthids that I didn't add to the tank. They came in on the liverock, which had sat in an open bucket with about 0.5" of water in the bottom of it, for a month. I saw the little flesh and assumed it was dead, and just leftover flesh. 6 months later, I have zoos and GSP everywhere. I've gone in and tried to scrape the GSP off, but I see it growing back in tiny bits, just like I see in your picture towards the top.

It's not at all surprising that after a few days out of water, but kept moist, that some of these corals survived. Free coral!

 

[ReefWreak]

Oh, and yes, if you provide it with calcium and other nutrients, it will eventually grow back over the rock (though I wouldn't expect it to grow the size of the rock with calcium deposition any time soon, maybe long after it's taken over the entire rock).