Dead corals that came back to life?

[steveschuerger]

I’ve got a polyp of a green Goni that had recently been moved to my nano growing in the larger tank where it had been. Pleasantly surprised although I’ve got so many Gonis already…..

 

[TangerineSpeedo]

I have had a few, Yellow Anacropora, birds nest, Soloman island tort. A piece gets broken off while doing tank maintenance, etc. Falls deep inside the rock work where I can’t get at it. Then an urchin decides to wear it as a hat. Corals are usually completely bleached, I throw it up on the frag shelf and they started to color back up.

 

[Alexraptor]

I have a particular variety of Pavona that actually self-destructs when conditions become unfavorable, leaving only a handful of polyps behind, withdrawn into the deepest recesses of the corallites, waiting to bounce back when conditions become favorable again. I've had such an event triggered twice now, and once under way, 'nothing' can stop the process.

It's like the colony cannibalizes itself and stores up all the nutrients in a handful of polyps, in order to wait it out.

 

[Lavey29]

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?

I think it is just luck and totally dependent on the survival instinct of the animal as long as conditions in the tank are favorable to.

 

[fodsod]

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.

So you going to educate all of us on each and every proper species name in the “hobby” so all of us including the companies that sell favias as favias can be a part of your little correction club?

Your post adds nothing to the discussion so why bother?

It’s common knowledge that “favia” is simply a common use name for a type of encrusting coral commonly sold as favia even though it’s not technically correct.