Dead Birds Nest, Resurrected.

[TheLegendaryBarlowe072]

So I got a birds nest frag a while back, as my first SPS test piece when I was thinking of having my tank be more of a mixed reef, I have since decided I am more into euphyllia, goniopora and things with more movement. At the time I had some unidentified issues with my lighting setup. I had pretty cheap lights and wrongly assummed because they were cheap that wouldnt be very powerful. That was not the case, the real issue that they have is they have a terrible spread. Anyways I misguidedly placed this birdsnest dead center near the top of the tank. It wasnt happy and started sheading tissue within days of its purchase. I moved it and got a par meter and figured out my lighting issue shortly after. However it didnt survive anyways and I was left with a bone white coral skeleton none the less. I didnt take it out of the tank, and it spent a month or more looking dead and even occasionally covered with algea. A couple of weeks ago I thought I noticed the tips of it looked a bit florescet under the light. But it was hard to tell. Now maybe 20% of it definetly has tissue regrown and polyp extension. By what miracle has this coral respawned? Is this a common thing?

 

[bubbgee]

There's a chance. I've had close miracles like that but ended up being snuffed by algae. Hammers are documented to do this too. Acropora colonies large enough can survive at catastrophic event too.

Suggest to frag out that part into its own plug so that it does not encourage algae growth around it.