How does live rock resurrect?

[JCnflies]

My LR has been in the tank for abit over a week now, and I am starting to see things (some of which could definitely be my imagination.) Things things really started to appear as soon as the snails would clean a section.

One section is showing what sure looks like an orange / tan sponge like material coating the rock. My coralline is purple and pink, and this has a texture to it, not like algae. I can see a small tubew and what looks like a tiny featherdister popping out in another arfea, too. There are many bivalve type creatures, that up to today have lookeddead with a bit of what looked like algae popping out but today they have asheen and look like they may have life. These things are elliptical in shape and about an inch wide and nearly two inches long, kind of like a really flat oyster shell.

My wife took the digital camera to work today so I can't show you any pics.

I was wondering how these things begin to grow. Are they eggs that were laid? Did they survive the culling, transporting and curing? How do they all live and should I expect anything? I already found glass anenomes on my caulerpa but I killed them sO i won;t have to worry about them.

 

[onegreenray]

thats the beauty of live rock. comes with a bunch of freebies. that being lots of different life. yes all it takes is a small portion to survive the curing and it will come back.

wait till you get your corals growing in there. this gets better.

 

[Reef Junkie]

Don't listen to Ray, it gets worse before it gets better.

You'll be sureprised how resilient these critters are.
This came in on a shipment of live rock some 15 years ago. And is rarer then rare.

 

[cb747]

What is it Bill?

 

[onegreenray]

Don’t ask Chris I am sure his salesmen nature he has some over boosting name he made up for it.

 

[Reef Junkie]

It's a rare form of Asterriodis spumosa.
It is rare in the Aquarium hobby because legal collection of this coral was haulted around 10 years ago. This coral is infamous in micronesia for it's extrememly potent toxin. Tentacles on this coral have been witnessed to actually rise up from the water at low tide and sting unsuspecting swimmers. Some at a distance of 20 feet!!! With it's potent sting, some swimmers had almost drowned and most suffer from partial temporary paralysis for days.

Another strange aspect of this coral is I made all of this up and have no idea what it is, only it's orgin, Carribean.

 

[CaptiveReef]

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8020220#post8020220 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Reef Junkie
It's a rare form of Asterriodis spumosa.
It is rare in the Aquarium hobby because legal collection of this coral was haulted around 10 years ago. This coral is infamous in micronesia for it's extrememly potent toxin. Tentacles on this coral have been witnessed to actually rise up from the water at low tide and sting unsuspecting swimmers. Some at a distance of 20 feet!!! With it's potent sting, some swimmers had almost drowned and most suffer from partial temporary paralysis for days.

Another strange aspect of this coral is I made all of this up and have no idea what it is, only it's orgin, Carribean.

LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:


:lol: CaptiveReef

 

[Justjoe]

The critters that do survive do so by at least staying damp during the entire trip to your tank. As long as they stay damp, oxygen is available to them.
I believe the first acropora kept actually grew from the live rock in Dietrich Stubers tank back in the 70's and became known as the Stuber Acropora.
Joe

 

[cb747]

LOL Good one Bill