Fungia Rebirth?

[thecichlidpleco]

I had a friend tell me that if I am able to get old/dead/skeleton showing fungia from LFS if they want to get rid of them, they would eventually grow back. Is this true, there are two looking like H E double hockey sticks at my LFS.

 

[elegance coral]

No, save your money. I dont believe that they heal as well as some other corals do. My LFS just cut a long tentacle plate coral in 4 pie shaped pieces. All 4 died. If it is trully a dead skeleton there is no way its comming back.

 

[thecichlidpleco]

no the point is getting the skeletons for free since most LFS would not know about this or be able to sell it. I believe it is similar to the way xenia behaves, dies completely and then comes back.

 

[dc_909]

Sounds like a myth

 

[paininthewrasse]

It happens, not always though... It isnt all that uncommon if they die they can sprout a whole bunch of babies.. LPS corals do that sometimes.. I had a bubble coral die and a couple months later it popped up about 20 babies on it..

 

[upstatedave]

they have been known to release what is called a daughter colony 6 or so months later.

 

[Shade00]

I would not pay for the chance.

Long tentacled plates are much more fragile than your normal fungias, though - you chip off a piece of a fungia and it'll be ok - but hit a long-tentacled plate with a magnet and it's toast.

 

[Thhitman]

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The short tentacle plate will sometimes spawn babies several months after they appear to be completley dead.

One of my LFS's had a plate skeleton in the back of a display tank for about 3 months and it has now sprouted about 7 or 8 babies. The owner said this has happened several times over the course of his experience, but is not a 100% thing.

I have never heard of a long tentacle plate doing this though.

 

[thecichlidpleco]

Well, I guess the news is good since both corals are short tentacle and the workers at the Chain pet store know nothing. I should inquire about taking them off their hands for free.

 

[jrhupp]

The production of anthocauli is not uncommon on aperently dead Fungiids. The two Fungia specimens in my tank were produced this way in a local reefers tank. Both were about pinky-nail sized when I got them, and now fully expanded the larger of the two is over six inches across.

There is lots of good info on the subject over on WetWebMedia, just search for Fungiid.

Jay