Little stick back from the dead

[SoggyNW]

Just another reminder to give your "dead" frags a chance. This little guy died months ago. Except under the right conditions I thought that maybe I could see a speck of something? The speck is so small I had to zoom with my camera to verify. So I kept it.

Fast forward a month and it is definitely alive one little polyp held on and is fighting back. Maybe this will produce a stronger coral, but I'm glad I didn't throw it out.

I'll try to keep this updated every few weeks to track the comeback.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Very cool. I had a friend who would take anything I thought was a goner and put it in his tank and bring back little pieces of them from survived polyps. I certainly don’t have the patience for it.

 

[Mr_Knightley]

I've got something similar going on in my tank actually! A tiny fragment that I dug up from my sand bed somehow survived it's time in the locker lol

 

[SoggyNW]

Update. I think the little survivor is still gaining ground. It doesn't look like much but if you go by percentage growth I think it's going well.

Last week I dragged a piece off of my bird'snest for a friend and when it was all done I noticed a 1/4 in piece in the sand. No point in wasting it so I got it with a pair of tweezers and glued it to the rock. I thought it would be interesting to add it to the thread.

 

[Flux Capacitor]

It’s good to see a post about corals coming back from the dead, rather than the standard I’m killing all the corals in my tank. Great work!

I once had a frogspwan do the exact same thing. It was dead skeleton, but I left it in. It grew to over 100 heads in 2 years time.

 

[Softhammer]

it happens all the time but to be clear, they can’t come back from the dead. A surviving polyp grows out.