Goni coming back from the dead

[Sdbuehler1]

I got a golden goniopora several months ago and put it in my 20 gallon tank but it wasn’t doing well. I decided to move it to my 100 gallon where I have two other gonis that are thriving. It bleached pretty quickly and then crusted over in coraline. I was about to take the rock it was on and put in in my sump when I noticed something yellowish around the base. I got out my magnifying glass and to my amazement it is making a comeback. I think most of us throw in the towel when we see a coral get covered in algae and coraline but I’m gong to think twice now about giving up so soon

 

[Lavey29]

Long time dead corals suddenly come back to life

So I'm sure we have all had corals die in the tank. I have some long time dead corals over 2 years suddenly color up and come back to life. Cyphastrea frag plugs that I glued to the rocks. Torches nuked them. Corals bleached, then browned, then covered with algae. Now over 2 years later they are...

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[Sdbuehler1]

Long time dead corals suddenly come back to life

So I'm sure we have all had corals die in the tank. I have some long time dead corals over 2 years suddenly color up and come back to life. Cyphastrea frag plugs that I glued to the rocks. Torches nuked them. Corals bleached, then browned, then covered with algae. Now over 2 years later they are...

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[gastone]

Pretty apropos. I had just 3d printed a few new frag plug grow out options. Anyway, glued a nice red goni frag to the middle before Thanksgiving break. I'm a teacher and this was in my school system. So on Tuesday the 26th, literally minutes before leaving for a 9hr car ride, the plug base floats to the top of the tank with the goni attached. dangit! Apparently I didn't use enough infill and it had too much buoyancy. So I tried to jam it as deep into the sand bed as possible to help hold it down. Returned on Saturday and sure enough the whole think was floating on top of the water. Appeared to be some red flesh so I freed the singular plug and sunk it into the sand. Looked shot. Over the past week it appeared to get a white coating on top. I'd assumed some weird bacteria or perhaps just bleaching. Fast forward to today, about 11 days since I went out of town. I was doing some maintenance and noticed a tiny bit of red flesh. Pulled up the frag and hit it with the power head. All of this white sand? bacteria? flows away and I'm looking at nothing but red flesh. Hopeful that it's actually alive and amazed that it would be seeing as how as far as I can tell it was out of the water floating (though still saturated), from Tuesday to Saturday.