SPS grown from a single polyp?
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Reef1589
Anemones for life
im currently in this situation with my newly acquired red dragon frag..
was a nice beefy piece about 2'' multi branch... then I had an ALK swing.... and everywhere the light hit burnt the tissue off...
and low and behold on the backside of the frag, there was 1 little shaded piece super tiny, but has 1 polyp, im kind of excited to see if it turns out..
idk tho, we shall see.
was a nice beefy piece about 2'' multi branch... then I had an ALK swing.... and everywhere the light hit burnt the tissue off...
and low and behold on the backside of the frag, there was 1 little shaded piece super tiny, but has 1 polyp, im kind of excited to see if it turns out..
idk tho, we shall see.
Decadence
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I lost an entire baseball-sized colony of a pink acro with green tips from an alk swing. It receded all the way to one single polyp with no tissue around it. After over a year of extremely slow recovery, it is now less than 1/4" around and has around 7 polyps. It seams like growth has been really slow but in reality, it has grown 10x its original size in a year. In that same time frame, most of my other corals doubled their sizes.
I probably lost three years of growth but I am very happy that it is going to make a full recovery because the growth pattern/color was beautiful.
I probably lost three years of growth but I am very happy that it is going to make a full recovery because the growth pattern/color was beautiful.
SPS grown from a single polyp?
I don't know about a single polyp but I had a similar experience recently. I bought a wild Aussie acro frag that wasn't looking too hot from the start and RTN'd. I didn't remove the skeleton out of laziness and I noticed just a tiny hint of green on one tip a couple of weeks later. I decided to just leave it alone and see what happened. I then noticed a tiny amount of green tissue on another tip and the base. Each section eventually grew and I started seeing some polyps. Yesterday I fragged the tips and what I could of the base (the dead skeleton was starting to grow algae) and glued them down on a frag plug. They're tiny little pieces but it would be so awesome to slowly grow a colony from that. I'm keeping my fingers crossed! Also, I'm going to continue to leave any frags that look like total goners for a while and see if they too recover. Luckily, this doesn't happen often but I threw out a nice one a couple of months ago that RTN'd over night that I had just gotten and I broke it in half when I threw it out and noticed it still had that freshly fragged acro smell. I wonder if I should have left it in now!
On a side note, a member of my local reef club had a plate coral completely STN and just left it in the tank. Weeks later there were tiny baby plates growing on the skeleton. Now she has 5-6 orange plates that have matured over several months and regular feeding. Pretty cool stuff!
I don't know about a single polyp but I had a similar experience recently. I bought a wild Aussie acro frag that wasn't looking too hot from the start and RTN'd. I didn't remove the skeleton out of laziness and I noticed just a tiny hint of green on one tip a couple of weeks later. I decided to just leave it alone and see what happened. I then noticed a tiny amount of green tissue on another tip and the base. Each section eventually grew and I started seeing some polyps. Yesterday I fragged the tips and what I could of the base (the dead skeleton was starting to grow algae) and glued them down on a frag plug. They're tiny little pieces but it would be so awesome to slowly grow a colony from that. I'm keeping my fingers crossed! Also, I'm going to continue to leave any frags that look like total goners for a while and see if they too recover. Luckily, this doesn't happen often but I threw out a nice one a couple of months ago that RTN'd over night that I had just gotten and I broke it in half when I threw it out and noticed it still had that freshly fragged acro smell. I wonder if I should have left it in now!
On a side note, a member of my local reef club had a plate coral completely STN and just left it in the tank. Weeks later there were tiny baby plates growing on the skeleton. Now she has 5-6 orange plates that have matured over several months and regular feeding. Pretty cool stuff!
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trueblackpercula
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Dry nice and it's always great to see your Sps as they always look like they are dripping with flavor. Lol
Thanks, I have never been a fan of pale, sickly looking corals, even though some try really hard to get that look, I will always prefer deeply colored corals as opposed to white sticks.
That's very inspiring!!!
That's very inspiring!!!
I've lost more than my fair share of SPS over the years, but I never really considered leaving my coral skeletons in the tank with the expectation of a recovery. After seeing this thread, I might have to change my philosophy a little.
Thanks Guys
That's very inspiring!!!
I've lost more than my fair share of SPS over the years, but I never really considered leaving my coral skeletons in the tank with the expectation of a recovery. After seeing this thread, I might have to change my philosophy a little.
Thanks Guys
westreef
Lost as usual
Welcome to Reef Central. I learn a lot from this site. Like you, due to my limited space, I threw away all my "dead" corals. Now, I might have a second thought.
