What once was dead, will rise again!

[fishnchips17]

So I had this beautiful hammer coral that I totally lost due to a stuck heater incident. All the flesh completely melted and nothing was left except skeleton. I lost all hope, but I heard that other people had regrown hammers from dead skeletons. So i just left the skeleton in my tank and forgot about it...

4 months later, I saw a speck of green growth on that dead hammer skeleton. Here's a pic of that small hammer growing for about 1 month now.

So anyone else have hammer corals that you think is totally dead, just leave the skeleton in your tank, you just never know what might regrow from it.

 

[Lavey29]

So I had this beautiful hammer coral that I totally lost due to a stuck heater incident. All the flesh completely melted and nothing was left except skeleton. I lost all hope, but I heard that other people had regrown hammers from dead skeletons. So i just left the skeleton in my tank and forgot about it...

4 months later, I saw a speck of green growth on that dead hammer skeleton. Here's a pic of that small hammer growing for about 1 month now.

So anyone else have hammer corals that you think is totally dead, just leave the skeleton in your tank, you just never know what might regrow from it.

Very cool,,,that looks like Yoda

 

[Gtinnel]

I’ve had the same thing happen a few times with hammers.

 

[shakacuz]

for me, it wasn't a hammer, but my space invader mycedium! not sure if a hermit crab was under it and somehow cut the bottom of its flesh, but it was during the same time my tank was battling an alk spike so that could've been the real reason. all of the damage was underneath.

i fragged it and now its back to the same size it was before! about the diameter of a grapefruit!

 

[fishnchips17]

Very cool,,,that looks like Yota

what's Yota?

 

[shakacuz]

what's Yota?

yoda, maybe?

 

[CoralB]

Very cool,,,that looks like Yota

That’s a creative and funny

 

[fishnchips17]

yoda, maybe?

oh I get it. Yoda, the skeleton looks like.

 

[aSaltyKlown]

Nice!

I have a blasto that had 30+ heads on it I grew out from a single head. All but two heads died due to dinos. Now I am seeing flesh coming out from a number of the dead areas. It's pretty amazing.

 

[His Coral Highness]

I’d guess the exception would be to just remove the skeleton if it died of an infectious disease like BJD though? Beautiful hammer btw

 

[Lavey29]

yoda, maybe?

Yea Yoda, I drive a Yota

 

[fishnchips17]

I’d guess the exception would be to just remove the skeleton if it died of an infectious disease like BJD though? Beautiful hammer btw

Actually I lost this hammer because I had BJD on another torch coral that I lost so thought to be safe better dip this one just in case. I used the KFC dip and left the coral in a container with a small power head and a heater. Left for an errand, came back 2 hours later to find a stuck heater and most of the heads already melted, put the coral back in my tank but the rest of the heads succumbed a day later. Of course I threw the torch coral skeleton with BJD out.

 

[Mark-Stover]

I wish I had known that this could happen. I had one die down to the skeleton and chucked it. Sigh!!!

 

[Gumbies R Us]

So I had this beautiful hammer coral that I totally lost due to a stuck heater incident. All the flesh completely melted and nothing was left except skeleton. I lost all hope, but I heard that other people had regrown hammers from dead skeletons. So i just left the skeleton in my tank and forgot about it...

4 months later, I saw a speck of green growth on that dead hammer skeleton. Here's a pic of that small hammer growing for about 1 month now.

So anyone else have hammer corals that you think is totally dead, just leave the skeleton in your tank, you just never know what might regrow from it.

That's cool to see it coming back from being "dead"!

 

[Ghostweim]

I wish I had known that this could happen. I had one die down to the skeleton and chucked it. Sigh!!!

Me too! Sigh...

 

[fishnchips17]

I wish I had known that this could happen. I had one die down to the skeleton and chucked it. Sigh!!!

Well I tried this with 2 other hammer skeletons before and nothing happened... Just happy that it happened this time because this was my favorite hammer.

 

[officialreefbros]

How's the baby holding up??

 

[fishnchips17]

It's still growing slowly.

 

[aSaltyKlown]

Thought of this thread when I was taking some pics today.

It's still growing slowly.

It's progress, it is very cool when things make a comeback.

Here is the Blasto I mentioned - slowly but surely it is making a coming along.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Not with me personally, but I've seen hammers completely dead for months start growing back