Question & Advise about Candy Cane coral

[basser1]

Hey All, Today I was at my LFS picking up some supplies. I asked the owner if it would be O.K. if I could get some LR rubble. He says sure, hands me a bag and tells me to look in his storage bin where he keeps his big pieces of live rock he sells. I pick up a few pieces and some "dead" coral fragments. This is for my blue spot jawfish.

When I get home I noticed 1 of the fragments looked like it still had some life to it. It is a green candy cane and looks like it had about 7 heads. Most of the heads looked lifeless , but 1 head looked kind of puffy. So I put it in my tank and fed it some brine shrimp. To my surprise, it ate it right away and I saw tentacles on it! The other heads are still showing quite a bit of green color. My question is, will these come back? While they are showing a lot of skeleton, they still show a lot of color! Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[tmz]

I've had them come back from very little tissue on a head. It takes a while though.

 

[basser1]

Thanks tmz. Is the green color I'm seeing on the other heads tissue?

 

[Mariner]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12368361#post12368361 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by basser1
Thanks tmz. Is the green color I'm seeing on the other heads tissue?

Could be. More likely algae growth on the coral skeleton. Candy cane is pretty tough stuff though; you could wind up with a nice coral in time if you baby it!
Mariner

 

[tmz]

Without seeing it I can't tell you if it's coral tissue or not.