Coral back from the dead?

[NANelson]

Hi all! I bought a 125g tank about a year ago and have noticed areas coming to life throughout the year, including some coral that have seemed to come back from the dead. I would love some input on what this one specifically could be, and wanted to check in with people a lot more experienced than me! (Embarrassingly enough, I attempted to nurture my aiptasia with pride before finding out it was a nuisance, don’t want to make that mistake again ‍). It seems obvious that the whole coral was alive at one point by the skeleton, and this one polyp has been noticeable for a couple of months now. I would love to find out what it is soI can try to help it along as well as possible. Thank you!!

 

[Hemmdog]

Nice, what’s it look like during the day. I can’t tell with the lights and blur lol.

 

[NANelson]

Lol it felt clearer last night when I posted it, but it is harder to see than I thought! Let’s try a better pic from this afternoon.

 

[NANelson]

There is also some neon orange spots on what looks like was a frag at one point. Definitely something alive, again I just don’t know what. But bright and neon! Any input would be appreciated

 

[justmee]

It does happen... I've had a lobo and a war coral that came back from the dead when I thought it was totally dead...

 

[cracker]

Just found a plating Monti resurrected !

 

[Hemmdog]

Lol it felt clearer last night when I posted it, but it is harder to see than I thought! Let’s try a better pic from this afternoon.

That looks like a candy cane, button scoly, lobo. Something like that. 2nd pic I would assume are zoas but it’s blurry.

 

[NANelson]

That looks like a candy cane, button scoly, lobo. Something like that. 2nd pic I would assume are zoas but it’s blurry.

Just looked those up, and scoly definitely looks closest. I’ll check into them and their needs a little more! Thank you!!
As for the others, they definitely aren’t zoas, (I know the pic is pretty terrible, sorry again! they’re farther back in the tank), but they’re flush to the skeleton that it’s on. Just neon orange spots that appeared on the skeleton. They haven’t really grown, but also haven’t receded.

 

[ZoWhat]

Such is the miracle of life. Marine life is amazing.

I once left a zoa covered rock out in my garage unintentionally for over a week. Someone said to throw oy back in the tank even though zoas looked dried up.

2 weeks later it sprung back to life



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[vetteguy53081]

Yes, it does happen. Also a sign that your tank is sustaining coral both soft and guard a sure bet to keep the system stable, as changes not warranted at this time

 

[jd371]

I have a Bonsai Garf that is starting to colonize again from a little piece that was left on the rock when I pulled the dying frag when it was becoming an algae magnet. A Red Hornets frag that had about 20 polyps melt down to one polyp and stall for the longest time but in the past month two more polyps have grown. My plate coral that completely died and all that was left was the skeleton. I heard about them sprouting babies after they die so I left it in the tank and sure enough a few months later... babies!

Plate on it's way out. Following week nothing but a skeleton.

A month or so after dying some growths appear.

This was taken last month.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Plates are well known to recover from even 100% of meat gone. This is great news !