I had a bit of a crash after buying some “food grade” chemicals (nitrate) off Amazon. It also taught me a lesson off buying chemicals off Amazon as clearly what they say doesn’t always mean much... I know it was the issue as my friend took a bit and had the same issue but added less so his system didn’t get hit as hard.
Anywho I had a lobo bail off its skeleton. I have not seen many, or really any, documented cases of lps growing new skeletons after this and figured it was dead. I put it in a container of sand in my sump because I have the room and it’s low flow.
It still took food as the time lapse video shows and as of last sump clean out a few weeks ago was still soft bottom floating.
This week while inspecting clams for snails I took another look, it was stuck To the plastic container! I popped it off and it appears to have grown skeleton on the bottom and edges!! Couple close ups.
I put it on a frag disk now instead of sand to give it a better base. It’s been a wild ride for this coral, and it did what I thought couldn’t be done! It bailed in Feb so it took about 8 months and most that time I couldn’t feel or see anything hard on the bottom of the coral so it took a while. Maybe a solid bottom is better than sand and it didn’t grow until felt the bottom of the plastic?
Anywho I had a lobo bail off its skeleton. I have not seen many, or really any, documented cases of lps growing new skeletons after this and figured it was dead. I put it in a container of sand in my sump because I have the room and it’s low flow.
It still took food as the time lapse video shows and as of last sump clean out a few weeks ago was still soft bottom floating.
This week while inspecting clams for snails I took another look, it was stuck To the plastic container! I popped it off and it appears to have grown skeleton on the bottom and edges!! Couple close ups.
I put it on a frag disk now instead of sand to give it a better base. It’s been a wild ride for this coral, and it did what I thought couldn’t be done! It bailed in Feb so it took about 8 months and most that time I couldn’t feel or see anything hard on the bottom of the coral so it took a while. Maybe a solid bottom is better than sand and it didn’t grow until felt the bottom of the plastic?