Dead corals that came back to life?

[Lavey29]

Recently, some of my dead corals returned to life. I had a decent size goni seemed to die off from a coral sting perhaps from the plate coral below it. I removed the whole dead flower pot. Month later, tiny little goni heads sprouted up on the same rock and it has continued to grow larger. Had a blue polyp digita get crowded out by other acros many months back. Bleached white so I removed it to make room for the other encrusters. Now I just noticed like 4 new branch stems maybe 2" tall in the middle of the other SPS. It must have grown back from a spec of encrusting base still on the rock and was not really visible sitting outside my tank but now I can see it clearly back from the dead. Pretty cool survival adaptation. Anyone else have similar?

 

[LadAShark]

Recently, some of my dead corals returned to life. I had a decent size goni seemed to die off from a coral sting perhaps from the plate coral below it. I removed the whole dead flower pot. Month later, tiny little goni heads sprouted up on the same rock and it has continued to grow larger. Had a blue polyp digita get crowded out by other acros many months back. Bleached white so I removed it to make room for the other encrusters. Now I just noticed like 4 new branch stems maybe 2" tall in the middle of the other SPS. It must have grown back from a spec of encrusting base still on the rock and was not really visible sitting outside my tank but now I can see it clearly back from the dead. Pretty cool survival adaptation. Anyone else have similar?

Rare, but happens. I had some chalices, birdsnests, and hammers/candycanes do similar.

 

[shakacuz]

my tsa space invader chalice, bc aquaman acro, jf aquaman monti, and tsa tesla acro all came back from the brink of death. most of my zoa's also did the same.

 

[LadAShark]

my tsa space invader chalice, bc aquaman acro, jf aquaman monti, and tsa tesla all came back from the brink of death. most of my zoa's also did the same.

Oh yeah, I forgot about mushrooms and zoas. They're both great at coming back from the brink.

 

[Lavey29]

my tsa space invader chalice, bc aquaman acro, jf aquaman monti, and tsa tesla all came back from the brink of death. most of my zoa's also did the same.

Yes I've had corals come back from near death but these I physically removed from the tank and they still came back.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Cool! I'm always excited when that happens!

 

[Kellie in CA]

I had a big colony of blastos disappear down to the skeleton for no apparent reason. Then one by one new polyps appeared. Within 6 months it was back to the way it was before.

 

[Dburr1014]

This, from that.



Deaths for with dinos, to this. Coral on the left.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hammer coral and tongue coral as well as a feather duster have come back from what should have been tossed.

 

[ClownSchool]

I’m starting to see signs of revival from a couple Goni skeletons I had thrown into a valley of my rock work.

 

[fodsod]

I have a Favia that I was my best growing coral for months that took a sudden nose dive for no apparent reason. I treated it with Iodine dips and parasite dips trying to save it to no avail. I was literally reaching into the tank to remove it and my wife stopped me. So I moved it to a back corner of the tank and stopped even looking at it.

It took almost 6 months but it recovered and is now encrusting on it's rock as before. It was a completely drawn down brownish lump and still came back. I'm pretty happy about it and my wife really likes taking credit for the save .

 

[Azael]

Last year, when I almost lost all my corals (hair algae), my chalice remained alive an extremely small piece and in time it came back to life. I was for sure it was a goner.

 

[McPuff]

There are 2 in my tank... some type of plating monti that has been gone for about 3 years is all of a sudden growing back in the same spot. The same is true for a sour apple birdsnest that was gone for about 2 years.

 

[blecki]

I have a monti, sold to me years ago under the name pink lemonade, that has grown 10-inch wide colonies then spontaneously died and grown back from a spec multiple times.

 

[MoshJosh]

I am still waiting on my fungia plate to come back. . . any day now I'm sure. . .

Here's an artist rendering:

 

[Petcrazyson]

Not sure if it died, but my Acan lost its 2 heads, and fell on the sand bed (few weeks ago), and now I see 3 new puffy little heads…..

 

[Lavey29]

Cool examples, I guess these little animals have a stronger survival disposition then we actually know.

 

[encrustingacro]

I have a Favia that I was my best growing coral for months that took a sudden nose dive for no apparent reason. I treated it with Iodine dips and parasite dips trying to save it to no avail. I was literally reaching into the tank to remove it and my wife stopped me. So I moved it to a back corner of the tank and stopped even looking at it.

It took almost 6 months but it recovered and is now encrusting on it's rock as before. It was a completely drawn down brownish lump and still came back. I'm pretty happy about it and my wife really likes taking credit for the save .

Favias don't exist in the hobby

I am still waiting on my fungia plate to come back. . . any day now I'm sure. . .

Here's an artist rendering:

Most plate corals in the hobby are actually Cycloseris, not Fungia. The only species I know have seen consistently bud polyps from dead skeletons is Heliofungia fralinae.

 

[MoshJosh]

Favias don't exist in the hobby


Most plate corals in the hobby are actually Cycloseris, not Fungia. The only species I know have seen consistently bud polyps from dead skeletons is Heliofungia fralinae.

my dead circle corals appears to remain dead. . .

 

[codenfx]

I’ve always leave the dead hammer, torch and Goni in the tank hoping to see a revival but overtime the skeleton have brown algae all over it and I throw it out if it’s past 2-3 months. It’s an eyesore to look at. How do you get them to revive? Do you move them to the shade?