Permanent damage to corals?

[LadyTang2]

Have any of you noticed that after a particular coral has lots of stn/rtn or some other serious issue that even years later it never gets back to where it was?

Or can corals always recover and be better/more beautiful than ever after a stressful event?

Just looking to hear some experiences on corals recovery/lasting damage

 

[vetteguy53081]

It happens often especially with tongue and plate coral as well as styli and bird’s nest

 

[LadyTang2]

It happens often especially with tongue and plate coral as well as styli and bird’s nest

And they can never recover?

 

[vetteguy53081]

And they can never recover?

Yes

 

[LadyTang2]

anyone else experience these corals recovering fully?

 

[jda]

Cut off all of the dead parts. Remount them if you need to. Cut frags if you need to. They can fully recover.

 

[Ashish Patel]

Every coral and hobbyist is different so yes its possible for the corals to be just and more healthy years down the road. I find if you keep the ALK stable and your tank has nutrients you will be successful. if your constantly looking for a Homerun as we all have done, then the corals are in constant survival mode and never take off.

 

[Softhammer]

The only way they can not recover is if they completely die. Just because one person can’t eke out growth after an issue is not a reflection of all corals. Now will all corals re-grow over dead spots, no some don’t. But does one event stunt growth forever, absolutely not, unless youre still screwing up..