Polyp bailout Acan and Candy Cane coral.

[BennytheBlenny1]

I recently bought a 150 gallon fish tank and while I was getting it set up and letting it cycle and run for a while to get all the water parameters in order my 55 gallon which had all my corals in it went south some how because some of my LPS corals started detaching from their skeletons and my Purple Favia died and I just bought it two weeks prior. all of my water parameters were good the only thing I didn't test was the magnesium which I now have a test kit but that old water is long gone.

Long story short I moved everything to the 150 gallon and everyone looks lively and open. I found all of the detached coral and set them is some small glasses with substrate at the bottom. They seem to be ok and are eating.

My questions are:
-Will the corals grow back their skeletons?
-Has anyone tried glueing the lose polyps to a peg?
-Has anyone had any success in keeping detached polyps alive?

 

[Tweaked]

While these animals we keep can be surprisingly hardy, I would say no, they are goners without their skeletons.

 

[cloak]

If you can find these polyps a quiet spot where they won't be disturbed for awhile there is definitely still hope... While polyp bailout is not really a good thing IMO, it can be a form of reproduction sometimes. There's a method to the madness so to say. GL.

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2008/8/aafeature1

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Great article Cloak.

Love the new avatar too :thumbsup:

 

[cloak]

Sk8r told me that one time too. I didn't understand why at the time, but it took me awhile to figure it out. "cloak" I was just going for mystery...

 

[BennytheBlenny1]

Well all the detached polyps are still alive. I found no posts about whether or not you can glue them. They keep flipping upside down so I keep having to very carefully flip them back over.

I might take a chance and experiment on one of them and see how they do glued. I may start by flipping a peg upside down and putting a dab of glue at the tip of the peg and carefully center him on it. Any thoughts?

 

[dutch27]

I don't have experience with polyp's that ran for the hills, but you could try putting them in a container of rubble rock with holes in it to allow some flow through. This may keep them from flipping over, while giving them a chance to attach to the rubble, it's a technique used for getting loose muchrooms and zoas to attach to things to be glued up later. Since they've already bailed, you have nothing to lose by trying out different things on different polyps and seeing if any of it works.

 

[SCReefer13]

Interested to see what happens. I have seen polyp bailout in a friend's tank but never followed up with him to see if he was able to save the coral polyps