Lost and Found, story from last night...

aerius007 · Jan 20, 2010

So last night I was checking the frag tank before I went to work and saw some bubble algae getting out of hand on a 10 polyp colony of candy apple greens. I took out the frag and immediately noticed I had some purple hornets hiding behind the greens. :bigsmile: Now this is great because the hornets I had had zoapox and, I thought, were totally gone. I had tried treating them and even cut a rotted polyp off but I didnt have any luck. So it was a nice surprise to see three totally healthy purple hornets.

This morning when I came home I went to make sure it wasnt a dream and sure enough, no dream, still have the purple hornets. Along with the purple hornets were the candy apple greens, STILL SITTING ON THE TABLE IN THE OPEN AIR!!! :sad: I must have gotten so excited about the hornets I had forgotten about the greens. They sat out for probably 10 hours, no water, 65ish degree room and totally dry. Instead of throwing them away I dropped the CA greens back into the tank and hoped for the best. Well as of 15 min ago the greens are totally open and dont look even the least bit stressed. :smile:

Nothing like the ups and downs with reefing...

fenderguy1 · Jan 20, 2010

Wow, crazy stuff!

nayrgaijin · Jan 20, 2010

Haha this is a good story. Glad they are ok, hope the same for your PH!

Elan · Jan 20, 2010

very nice!!

SaraB · Jan 20, 2010

Lucky you!

CHALICEKEEPER · Jan 20, 2010

Lucky....

PCFishman3 · Jan 20, 2010

What a nice surprise :).... A lot of the zoas that come in on live rock nowadays survive, so it's not too much of a surprise that those zoas survived being out of the tank for 10 hours.

ZachB · Jan 20, 2010

Many of these corals come from intertidal zones where they are out of the water and exposed to air for hours a day. Not terribly surprising. Glad to hear everything survived :)