Miraculous Coral resurrections?
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I have a few stories about plates coming back after a long time, but I personally have never experience it. Those are some awesome pics. Because of stories I have heard I try and leave my "dead" corals in the tank for as long as I can stand, just in case they decide to come back.
deucebone79
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I had a frag of christmas favia that i picked up for 5 bucks at the LFS. Needless to say it needed help and withered away during the next week. 3-4 weeks later my wife notices something growing on top of the frag. To my surprise, two tiny favia polyps where emerging form bare skeleton. Today there are 6 polyps about the size of a skittle and the colors are awesome.
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Eric the half-bee
Passer of gasses
I have a digitata(green flesh, brown polyps) that crashed and resurfaced 6-9 months later and is growing nicely now. I also had a plating orange monti that died and reemerged 1 year later only to be snuffed by a frogspawn that was too close.
noahm
Active member
I had an encrusting monti frag about the size of a dime that bleached and 'died'. You could see nothing but a grey porous skeleton. I was too lazy to remove it, but about 2 months later I could see a browned out polyp sticking out the side. A few weeks later, another. After 4 or 5 came out, it started to make 'flesh' and cover the old skeleton. Now, it is about quarter sized and covered with proper mint green polyps. Also had a nice favia do the same.
67Duster
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Time to break out the Dremil>
A top down shot I took earlier.
Gawain1974
dc fanboy
That's awesome!
Unfortunately, the only things that seem to resurrect themselves in my tank are ugly brown zoanthids and mushrooms that I've been trying to eradicate for years. That, and aiptasia.
Unfortunately, the only things that seem to resurrect themselves in my tank are ugly brown zoanthids and mushrooms that I've been trying to eradicate for years. That, and aiptasia.
ingtar_shinowa
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Cool!
iwishtofish
Active member
That's some neat stuff! Enjoy!
kevantheman35
Member
thats just how those plates reproduce, they always die off or appear to have, then some time later explosion. search around theres a bunch of cool articals about it that might help you out
zma21
Active member
I'm hopeful for some xenia in my tank that I've assumed dead for the past two weeks.
They started off great, pulsing and expanding. They slowly started to recede, and now they're just little round buds, looking like tiny closed zoo's. Color has remained a nice pink/purpleish the whole time.
Over the past couple days, the round buds look like they've been growing little nubby fingers. Hopefully they come back, all my other coral is flourishing.
They started off great, pulsing and expanding. They slowly started to recede, and now they're just little round buds, looking like tiny closed zoo's. Color has remained a nice pink/purpleish the whole time.
Over the past couple days, the round buds look like they've been growing little nubby fingers. Hopefully they come back, all my other coral is flourishing.
That plate should be called "lazarus coral."
In in the process of nursing a bleached acans back to health, feeding it mysis several times a week.
I think montipora are the most resilient corals. I've had fragments survive in near total darkness under rock work. I'm growing a colony of pink digitata from a chocolate chip sized crumb.
In in the process of nursing a bleached acans back to health, feeding it mysis several times a week.
I think montipora are the most resilient corals. I've had fragments survive in near total darkness under rock work. I'm growing a colony of pink digitata from a chocolate chip sized crumb.
strike2867
Member
My 90 gallon is getting overrun by Xenia. It is growing on corals, and other corals ahve started to grow on it. I'd suggest you separate it from your other rocks and glass.
cilyjr
Active member
When I watched this crawl off to the left I couldn't believe it! When I picked it up and it was solid as a rock I was just overjoyed. My stuff dies, not reproduce!!
most plates that experience a big die off then come back behave like this they just keep popping off babies. lfs store around here keeps one in the back and sells the off spring
I had a terrible die off from a 93*+ tank overheat. I lost almost everything in the tank. I tossed the dead coral skeletons back behind the rock work and forgot about it. A couple of weeks later I saw purple, yellow and green back there. I pulled out 2-3 surviving scroll coral polyps, a couple of cup coral polyps and a few favia polyps. All are doing very well in my tank a year later
