Phoenix Effect (Blastomussa)

cil311 · Jul 30, 2017

I lost my blastomussa to an alk spike last November. It was my favourite, so I took care of the skeleton. Today, 8 months later, I noticed a change. It looks to me like it is finally coming back! The picture isn't great, but do those look like new buds to you??

Evan West · Jul 31, 2017

Maybe.....can you get a better pictue?

cil311 · Jul 31, 2017

Evan West said:
Maybe.....can you get a better pictue?

Unfortunately, that's the best my phone can do. They are slowly getting bigger so I will post another picture in a week or so.

cil311 · Aug 10, 2017

Evan West said:
Maybe.....can you get a better pictue?

Well, here's the progress so far

Evan West · Aug 10, 2017

cil311 said:
Well, here's the progress so far

Lol maybe it will come back!

cil311 · Aug 26, 2017

TX_Punisher · Aug 27, 2017

Looks like coralline encrusting on the skeleton.

Sabellafella · Aug 27, 2017

cil311 said:

Nice! 8 months and theyll be nice and full.

Daniel@R2R · Aug 28, 2017

Cool!

cil311 · Nov 10, 2017

Update:

DSC reef · Nov 10, 2017

That's Awesome! We had the same thing happen to a large colony of pink Floyd chalice. Nothing but skeleton left after an alk spike. Months later my wife noticed a glowing speck and I thought nothing of it. It's growing back strong. I'll snap some before and afters tomorrow. Thanks for posting this update. Corals are amazing animals.

cil311 · Nov 10, 2017

DSC reef said:
That's Awesome! We had the same thing happen to a large colony of pink Floyd chalice. Nothing but skeleton left after an alk spike. Months later my wife noticed a glowing speck and I thought nothing of it. It's growing back strong. I'll snap some before and afters tomorrow. Thanks for posting this update. Corals are amazing animals.

Please do!

Dennis Cartier · Nov 10, 2017

I had the same thing occur with a frogspawn. I had a branching one with 2 heads. I lost both heads due to bad water quality, but left the skeleton in the tank. A few months later I noticed a green glowing dot that was only visible just before lights out. Eventually that dot grew into a head and today it is a softball sized colony with another colony that grew from a baby that it dropped off. It is a great feeling when you manage to turn it around before the coral completely dies.

Dennis

DSC reef · Nov 11, 2017

Here's the pics of the chalice we lost but now is coming back via the phoenix effect. It grew from a one eye frag to a colony in about 4 years. Lost it in 4 days. Can't believe it's coming back.

Sorry for the blue pic, halides don't come on until 2.

A Toadstool Leather · Nov 11, 2017

Plate corals can reproduce like that. If parts of the coral die new corals grow from the skeleton called authocaulli.

cil311 · Nov 12, 2017

Dennis Cartier said:
I had the same thing occur with a frogspawn. I had a branching one with 2 heads. I lost both heads due to bad water quality, but left the skeleton in the tank. A few months later I noticed a green glowing dot that was only visible just before lights out. Eventually that dot grew into a head and today it is a softball sized colony with another colony that grew from a baby that it dropped off. It is a great feeling when you manage to turn it around before the coral completely dies.

Dennis

Cool! I'm hoping my galaxea will still come back, but nothing yet...

cil311 · Nov 12, 2017

DSC reef said:
Here's the pics of the chalice we lost but now is coming back via the phoenix effect. It grew from a one eye frag to a colony in about 4 years. Lost it in 4 days. Can't believe it's coming back.

Sorry for the blue pic, halides don't come on until 2.

That's impressive, pretty resilient!