Back from the brink and looking bright!

[asydabass]

Here’s what a year of TLC did for this little mariculture frag that almost didn’t make it.

Oct 2021 with tissue necrosis and color loss

This morning (Oct 2022) with no filter and daylight spectrum. Shaggy, colorful, and starting to table.

I’m quite happy with the turn around. Any thoughts on which species group this acro belongs to?

-Don

 

[Perry]

Well done :)
That turned into a gem!!!

 

[Illini_Drew33]

That is seriously amazing that it came back! I saw that first pick and my first words are no way thats a goner!

 

[Lavey29]

What do you attribute most to your success?

 

[ninjamyst]

Awesome that it grew back over the dead skeleton

 

[chipchipbro]

wow, no way that thing survived :O
You did an awesome job bringing it back into life man! awesome job… you know what youre doing for sure

 

[chipchipbro]

maybe @sculpin01 has an idea what it could be

 

[unchin]

Wow can't believe it's the same thing

 

[Smite]

That's a stunner, very nice work

 

[sculpin01]

I can’t see corallites with all the polyp extension but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were a spicifera or similar. Needs to grow out more first.

 

[AFHokie]

What do you attribute most to your success?

I’ll double down on the question. Very interested in how you nursed that back to health.

 

[asydabass]

I’ll double down on the question. Very interested in how you nursed that back to health.

Sorry to say, no secret sauce here. I fragged it down a little and put it into a lower par area till I saw the recession end. It had a nice recovery from there but then started to suffer slightly from a system wide issue I had. It ended up a deeper red with green base in that system. I moved everything over to a new system 3 months ago and thats where the photo came from. It now sits at 400-450 par and is absolutely blasted by flow. I attribute much of its comeback to it being a resilient species, whichever that may be.

 

[asydabass]

I can’t see corallites with all the polyp extension but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were a spicifera or similar. Needs to grow out more first.

I’ll get a clean detailed photo of the structure a little later today.

 

[asydabass]

wow, no way that thing survived :O
You did an awesome job bringing it back into life man! awesome job… you know what youre doing for sure

Ha, thanks, but not at all. I’m an on the job learner. I’ve only been reefing for a little under two years, but I’m an obsessive learner with a biology/ecology background. Jumped right into sps, so the learning curve as always been relevant to my aquarium. Aside from a Duncan and a starter gps, I’ve only ever kept sps and some zoas that have never done well. I can’t keep utter chaos zoas to save my life.