Don’t Give Up On Your Dying Corals...

[Bryson.bobby]

My first and only fungia plate’s mouth melted almost completely randomly for sure though he was a goner no before pictures I took me nearly 20 years to own one I was bummed . Now a 1/3 mouth and regenerated a ton of tissue very impressive! Had candy canes like the op come back for the brink from my lobo which also killed other stuff from livestock moving things close to it eventually unwillingly sold it tired it’s shenanigans.

I did find a picture after it had hung on for awhile still wasn’t convinced it was going to pull through. I hadn’t seen it puff up for a solid 2 months it had started to heal but nothing major.
March 22nd 2019.

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Looks like it’s making a great recovery!

 

[Bryson.bobby]

Here’s some updated pics of the frags.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Awesome! Congratulations!!

 

[Bryson.bobby]

Awesome! Congratulations!!

Thanks, I appreciate it!

 

[Cutebarra77]

Hi everyone.

I have a small frag of gold head hammer which I accidentally placed too near a tube anemone. 2 days ago, one of heads appeared whitish and I knew that was bad news - the tube anemone's long tentacles could have stung the hammer. I immediately moved the hammer away and now trying to nurse it back to health...

Just curious: Would a stung LPS ever recover?
Anyone has any same experience?

Thanks!

 

[Bryson.bobby]

Hi everyone.

I have a small frag of gold head hammer which I accidentally placed too near a tube anemone. 2 days ago, one of heads appeared whitish and I knew that was bad news - the tube anemone's long tentacles could have stung the hammer. I immediately moved the hammer away and now trying to nurse it back to health...

Just curious: Would a stung LPS ever recover?
Anyone has any same experience?

Thanks!

I don’t see why it wouldn’t recover. Have an pics? Candycanes are actually lps

 

[Cutebarra77]

I don’t see why it wouldn’t recover. Have an pics? Candycanes are actually lps

Hi Bobby,

I hope the photo can be uploaded here. The injured head is the one in orange circle.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Hi Bobby,

I hope the photo can be uploaded here. The injured head is the one in orange circle.

Doesn't look happy. I hope it recovers for you.

 

[Bryson.bobby]

Here’s some pics under the new t5 fixure

 

[ReeferPat]

I had a tiny growth of frogspawn under the main colony. It broke off a few weeks ago and I couldn’t find it (it was literally less than 1/4 inch, essentially just a few tiny polyps). Last week I saw a green dot in the sandbed and realized it was a single frogspawn polyp. I dug it up and there were about five tiny polyps. Just for kicks I glued the bunch to a drag plug. The next day all the polyps were extended. No idea what’s going to happen but amazing nonetheless. I’ll have to try to get a pick later.

 

[Bryson.bobby]

I had a tiny growth of frogspawn under the main colony. It broke off a few weeks ago and I couldn’t find it (it was literally less than 1/4 inch, essentially just a few tiny polyps). Last week I saw a green dot in the sandbed and realized it was a single frogspawn polyp. I dug it up and there were about five tiny polyps. Just for kicks I glued the bunch to a drag plug. The next day all the polyps were extended. No idea what’s going to happen but amazing nonetheless. I’ll have to try to get a pick later.

Wow, that’s really cool! Feel free to post some updates

 

[ReeferPat]

Wow, that’s really cool! Feel free to post some updates

Was finally able to get a pic. Can’t believe it’s still alive after at least a week of being completely buried. Not holding out too much hope but who knows?

 

[Bryson.bobby]

Was finally able to get a pic. Can’t believe it’s still alive after at least a week of being completely buried. Not holding out too much hope but who knows?

That’s awesome!

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I originally wrote this up for my build thread, but I wanted more people to see how resilient and overcoming certain corals can be if given a chance.


I acquired a small candycane colony from a friend back in February before my 55 gal was cycled. I then decided to put it in my 3 yr old 20 gal nano because I figured it had a better chance surviving, (20 gal only has a hob filter and insufficient lighting for lps). Long story short, it didn’t do well in the 20.

Here’s a pic of it in the 20

I actually posted a thread about the candycane dying and someone recommended me to add it to the 55 since it was done with the cycle and starting the diatom stage.

Here it is after adding it to the 55 (sorry about the picture quality, The pic was originally of the whole tank)

A month or two after adding it to the 55, I noticed that some polyps was starting to recover, as crazy as that sounds. However, vermetid snails started to grow over some of the weaker polyps, causing them to die. (The whole back side of the colony was overran with them)

After an unsuccessful attempt of removing the veremitds, I decided to frag the candycane and left only 3 healthy polyps.

Here’s all of the frags as of 7/25/19

I will continue to post updated on this thread

I had a crash 5mo. ago? Thought I lost everything. Come to find out some corals survived. Alot of patience, though

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Also, I have a coral one of the most challenging. Dendronephthya colonies. I hung upside down. It has a motor that rotates every 15min. Coming back, in 2 weeks

 

[Bryson.bobby]

I had a crash 5mo. ago? Thought I lost everything. Come to find out some corals survived. Alot of patience, though

All they need is love...I may or may not be quoting your signature, lol

 

[vetteguy53081]

Many do bounce back especially zoa, plate coral and euphellia

 

[Bryson.bobby]

Here’s another update.

 

[intricate_reefer]

I had a chalice that came in cold from shipping in January. Within an hour in the tank it looked like this

Here it is today

 

[Bryson.bobby]

I had a chalice that came in cold from shipping in January. Within an hour in the tank it looked like this

Here it is today

Wow! It looks great now!