weird RTN experiences

[tgunn]

My recent RTN experience was similar in some regards.

I got a single medium sized frag from a fellow reefer (you saw my thread on it's RTN). When I originally got it, two small tiny pieces broke off, and I mounted those on rocks elsewhere in my tank.

After a while, the larger frag RTNed. I tried fragging it but all pieces RTNED.

Now, only a week later, one of the small original chunks that had broken off RTNed out of the blue. No rhyme, no reason, it just did. I expect the last piece will RTN soon.... I'm going to set my camcorder up on a time lapse to try and catch it or see if there's perhaps something picking at it.

 

[clkwrk]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6689149#post6689149 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JOSHUAB
What color was your digitifera colony???? I have one that is slowly starting to color up, I can frag it for you whay it finally gets established.

Thanks mine was baby blue with cream body.

 

[buddie]

anything on your cutters that could have got under the tissue and then sealed in by glue , that is the only other thing in common with the frags. but the time bomb thing sound more true

 

[clkwrk]

Not frags that havent been glued

 

[comatose]

This is not uncommon, for some unexplained reason this happens, Maybe D.N A., maybe something living on the coral that stays dormaint then at a certain time of year ....BOOM.
To give you an example:
I had a real nice colony and it was getting very large, so i decided to frag it, I have a Family member and a friend with large tanks. I fragged nice size pieces for them both(about 3 to 4" each). this was a year and a half ago.....about 6 weeks ago mine, my nephew and my friends all RTN on the same week, that was the only time we ever exchanged corals. I was amazed when i found out about this. None of our Corals died tho, they all RTN to almost nothing then started to come back.
So i was not surprised when i read this thread and thought i would share this with you all.
BTW the coral was a purple montipora digitata.

 

[clkwrk]

Thanks thats the type of experience I was looking for .

 

[comatose]

I'm sorry, ours was STN and NOT RTN.

 

[clkwrk]

okay so what was the time frame of tissue lost hrs,days ect.

 

[comatose]

From the time STN started they all were down to about nothing in about one weeks time, now they are all comming back, I had fragged mine again to see if i could stop it, but it still was STN'ing but then stoped just as the coral was just about gone, the other two corals that i gave away were not fragged again, and did the same thing just stopped STN'ing and started to grow again, maybe some expert has an asnswer, I sure don't