If there is ONE coral you cant kill this is it....

[oceanparadise1]

ANTHELIA

i left it out for 5 hours under my HQIs, it was a frag with about 10 heads on it. When i noticed it, it was TOTALLY dried out, tossed it back into my tank and not even two hours later its fully open lol

 

[labman]

to bad one of the corals I wish I never got along with Bloody GSP

 

[Nate82]

yea xenia or anthelia kenya trees can take a beating as well

 

[Pitcom]

I know somone who left a toadstool on the front seat of there car for a weekend. It was a large specimen and was in a ziplock bag with a little water. Temps outside got into the 50's and It survived.

 

[ahayes13]

wow, amazing what some of the corals can endure.

 

[paintballer768]

Corals take colder temperatures better than hotter ones IME. My GSP is rediculous. I moved it from the sandbed to a rock last week and its already an inch onto the new rock. I predict scraping and cutting in my future.

 

[Nate82]

well because things kind of shut down in the cold and therefore can be revived but in the heat they melt

 

[dan10342]

you want an indestructable coral eh?

try acropora tenuis.

i had a acro a long time ago. thing fell behind my rockstack and was there for a few weeks. took it out and it was bleached very bad. a few months later, it had 3/4 inch new growth and all its color back. i ended up trading that acro, and i still kick myself for getting rid of it.

 

[dan10342]

oh and the time that acro fell, my tank was at 86 degrees. it was last (early)fall sometime. abient temps were 80ish and my heater was set at 85.

 

[dan10342]

that was last year though... and it will never happen again. the end

 

[Okeewanfonokee]

I have some Anthelia and I think I made a mistake by buying it. It has started to fuse the shell it came on with the rock and I noticed today small sprouts in random areas of my lil nano. Do you think it is safe to cut it back? or if by cutting I hope it does not start some kind of spawn? Funny thing is I have some zoas living in the middle of them, did not notice when I bought the frag. They are really cool green with yellow highlights on the disk. I would take a picture, if not for the forest of Anthelia covering them up. It has been about 2 months and the zoas are still there.