Lobo regrowing skeleton after polyp bailout

[hart24601]

Update bit over a year later. Same disk.

 

[homer1475]

And the base?

I would assume now it has an almost full skeleton?

 

[hart24601]

Oh it’s grown to the plate, no way for me to check the skeleton but no reason to think it’s not fully regrown. The flesh has the skeleton ridges in it again if you gently touch it instead of just being all soft.

 

[jcolliii]

AWESOME update! Great to see! Is that coral larger that it was prior to the bailout, or approximately the same? Just curious.

 

[Reefing102]

That is awesome. Great color and growth too!

 

[hart24601]

oh it’s much larger now. You can tell just a bit from the old skeleton I was holding in the earlier pics.

 

[TheDragonsReef]

Just goes to show to never give up on them. It doesnt always work out but sometimes miracles happen.

 

[indiana812]

I also had my trachy bail out, I placed him in the deep coral away from all other coral to not get damaged.

first picture is right when it bailed on skeleton, (October 2022)

Next picture is from January- still looks to be doing okay, it just isn’t stationary, I have no flipped it to see any growth on the bottom if there is any signs of skeleton growth.

If you are saying you saw results from gluing it on a plug, should I just glue the middle portion of the “skin” to a plug or let it be? Thoughts?

 

[hart24601]

I also had my trachy bail out, I placed him in the deep coral away from all other coral to not get damaged.

first picture is right when it bailed on skeleton, (October 2022)

Next picture is from January- still looks to be doing okay, it just isn’t stationary, I have no flipped it to see any growth on the bottom if there is any signs of skeleton growth.

If you are saying you saw results from gluing it on a plug, should I just glue the middle portion of the “skin” to a plug or let it be? Thoughts?

I just let it sit until there was enough skeleton to glue to a disk, I didn’t glue tissue so I can’t say if it would work or not. I wouldn’t do it though. Just let it sit on sand in low flow

 

[GDiaz]

Update bit over a year later. Same disk.

Awesome update. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Drewbacca]

So nice to see.. looks great.. still goin? Someone said this wld be the first document case because lps can't do this, but i had a candy cane polyp bail months ago and it just laid in the sand and grew and split and when i went to pick it up lastcweek and glue it to a frag plug after 4 heads were there, it had regrown a hard calcium base, aka skelaton, the size of 2 nickles stacked. I would post a pic but I sold it to my local lfs, which i now regret. But I did get a nice foxface for $60. If lfs still has my coral ill snap a pic.
But yeah, I couldn't believe it, but it made me wonder..
What would the purpose of an lps corals survival instinct to bail out be, if couldn't ever grow a base again? Its the only thing that would allow it to survive and grow a colony, unless it just kept splitting as it encrusted a rock. Which would be cool to see. Ecrusting candy canes & hammers!

 

[hart24601]

So nice to see.. looks great.. still goin? Someone said this wld be the first document case because lps can't do this, but i had a candy cane polyp bail months ago and it just laid in the sand and grew and split and when i went to pick it up lastcweek and glue it to a frag plug after 4 heads were there, it had regrown a hard calcium base, aka skelaton, the size of 2 nickles stacked. I would post a pic but I sold it to my local lfs, which i now regret. But I did get a nice foxface for $60. If lfs still has my coral ill snap a pic.
But yeah, I couldn't believe it, but it made me wonder..
What would the purpose of an lps corals survival instinct to bail out be, if couldn't ever grow a base again? Its the only thing that would allow it to survive and grow a colony, unless it just kept splitting as it encrusted a rock. Which would be cool to see. Ecrusting candy canes & hammers!

I sold the system quite a while ago and just keep a nano now. I hope it’s still going somewhere!