Ever lost a coral?

[ctopal]

This has been driving me crazy for several weeks now. I was wondering if anyone else has had a coral just vanish on them. I had a large zoa colony from FFM, about the size of a golfball with another 1/2 golfball stacked on top. It was glued to a rock at the top of my tank and had come off a few times onto the ledge below it. I thought I had it really glued good this last time, then I went away on vacation for a week. I come back and it has vanished into thin air. It's only a 90 gallon, I can touch every area and I've looked the tank over several times. It's really bugging me! Anyone else had a similar experience?

 

[red88rick]

Very strange. I only have nanos currently so never had that happen and if I did that would be really wierd as my biggest tank is a biocube 14. Mayb thre is that 1 spot you can't quite see. Being a mechanic when I drop a tool or anything importaint no matter how hard I look it's always in that 1 spot I can't find it in ha.

 

[EvilMel]

Yes. More times than I care to admit. Most recently it happened when (like an idiot) I didn't epoxy down a small zoa frag that I got...of zoas I've been hunting for YEARS. Talk about moronic. I have been trying to find this particular type of zoa for a really long time and I get it...then don't epoxy it down! That's one of those "so stupid, you deserve it" kind of things.

 

[ctopal]

Oh no, I guess I can be thankful that it wasn't something special.

 

[Marc11]

The best part is zoas can survive with little light. I had that happen and found the plug a year later when I was reaquascaping. Zoas looked like crap when i found them but still have them today. That was about 2 years ago.

 

[Bett]

I had a good sized zoa frag I got from the FFM disappear completely about a month and a half ago. I thought it was gone for good but the other week I found it in the back corner of the tank. I'm certain my clownfish did it since I've seen her pull things up, even when I glue them down, and drop them on the other side of the tank. I also lost a mushroom during a recent move but it was smaller and probably got buried under the sand by mistake.

If you have a blue LED you could use as a flashlight try shining it in the back corners and behind rocks. I only found my zoas because I moved my lights and saw them glowing a tiny bit in the shady side of the tank.

 

[muppet]

Constantly.

I had a bad experience with some two-part purple "clay" epoxy I bought at Realm of Pets a million years ago badly clouding my tank, and I've been gun shy about sticking anything down since. Instead I find a pore in a rock to jam the plug into, with varying degrees of success.

Anything that falls is pretty quickly murdered by my engineer burying it.

So many slaughtered zoas...

 

[Blitzie]

Anything that falls is pretty quickly murdered by my engineer burying it.

So many slaughtered zoas...

+1
I used to start all my frags in the sand bed and on more then one occasion I have caught my Watchman Goby or my Pistol Shrimp pulling a frag towards their hole. I once caught them both teaming up on one together pulling it in. When this happens I just ruin the entrance to there hole and give them something else to do for a few hours.

 

[ctopal]

I guess I'm in good company then and not the only one. I like the flashlight idea, I tried looking when my blue leds were on, but it's a large unit I can't exactly check all the cracks and crevices.