Brain coral hitchhiker change

[Roman009]

I got some Gulf Live rock with a brain coral and it was bleached white when it arrived (see pics) in February. Since then, it appears to have perhaps come back? I’m a coral rookie- is it alive and well?

 

[jeffchapok]

If it's soft and fleshy, it's still alive. Do you ever see it extend little tentacles around the polyps?

 

[Arthacker87]

yea hard to tell. Could be algae growing. If it has any texture like other corals then possibly. But it's also brown like algae

 

[Roman009]

If it's soft and fleshy, it's still alive. Do you ever see it extend little tentacles around the polyps?

I haven’t, no. But I haven’t been looking either.

 

[Roman009]

yea hard to tell. Could be algae growing. If it has any texture like other corals then possibly. But it's also brown like algae

I guess that’s possible, although I have no other algae in the tank that I’m aware of.

 

[Arthacker87]

Have a new bleached white coral and algae will find it .... lol. Here's to hoping its alive a d well.

 

[Roman009]

Have a new bleached white coral and algae will find it .... lol. Here's to hoping its alive a d well.

That’s common then? I’m sure that’s the case then. Can’t imagine it’s survived.

 

[Arthacker87]

I teasing. If you have good algae control might he some growth. Only one way to tell.... touch it lol

 

[Arthacker87]

I've seen some coral bleached and a speck made a comeback but it took forever

 

[shadesatsetbreak]

It's fine. Not brain coral. It is a star coral, Siderastrea Radians. Super hardy. Feed it some reef roids and maybe some bits of mysis and it'll start sticking those tentacles out, now that the flesh has grown back.

 

[Roman009]

It's fine. Not brain coral. It is a star coral, Siderastrea Radians. Super hardy. Feed it some reef roids and maybe some bits of mysis and it'll start sticking those tentacles out, now that the flesh has grown back.

Star coral -got it! Thanks for that!