Im so excited by this development

[Lavey29]

So I lost a couple nice SPS colonies recently. Not sure why as they were well established but my LFS thinks that by dropping bergia nudibranch around them for aptasia control caused it. He thinks the bergia died and released toxins. The only colonies affected were where I had placed the bergia...oh well

Fast forward a few weeks after I removed the dead colonies and I see the tiniest bit of green slimer life on the rock. It is only a few millimeters long. I am so fascinated by this development and am curious where it will be in 6 months or a year. It's like it's DNA started life again on the rock.

 

[blaxsun]

Here's hoping for you!

 

[Lavey29]

Here's hoping for you!

I'm kind of treating like an experiment where I expect failure but hope for success.

 

[blaxsun]

I'm kind of treating like an experiment where I expect failure but hope for success.

Those are the best kind of successful failures.

 

[kevgib67]

Fingers crossed!

 

[Dburr1014]

So I lost a couple nice SPS colonies recently. Not sure why as they were well established but my LFS thinks that by dropping bergia nudibranch around them for aptasia control caused it. He thinks the bergia died and released toxins. The only colonies affected were where I had placed the bergia...oh well

Fast forward a few weeks after I removed the dead colonies and I see the tiniest bit of green slimer life on the rock. It is only a few millimeters long. I am so fascinated by this development and am curious where it will be in 6 months or a year. It's like it's DNA started life again on the rock.

I don't think they would release toxin to only kill where they were placed. Extremely hard to believe...
Anyway, good to here. Hope it comes back. I have had a very similar experience. From a green slimer nub that died way back to a colony. I think it didn't like it when I had dinos a while back.

 

[Lavey29]

I don't think they would release toxin to only kill where they were placed. Extremely hard to believe...
Anyway, good to here. Hope it comes back. I have had a very similar experience. From a green slimer nub that died way back to a colony. I think it didn't like it when I had dinos a while back.

Awesome, yea not sure about the toxins but circumstantually it sure makes sense if they died on the bases of my corals.

 

[Sisterlimonpot]

Ha! This is great! A few years back I bought an acan that didn't seem to last long in my tank. For any logical reasoning it was gone, there was just the remaining skeleton and absolutely zero sign of any florescent pigments. And then 6 months later at night when the blue lights were on, I saw a very faint pinkish red dot. I made a comment to my wife, wouldn't it be cool if that was the acan? But we both dismissed it as coralline.

Fast forward 5 years, and that acan went from pretty much nothing to (maybe) 10+ heads. I'm an sps guy, so I really don't give it much attention, but I'm glad it found a way to survive.

 

[Lavey29]

Ha! This is great! A few years back I bought an acan that didn't seem to last long in my tank. For any logical reasoning it was gone, there was just the remaining skeleton and absolutely zero sign of any florescent pigments. And then 6 months later at night when the blue lights were on, I saw a very faint pinkish red dot. I made a comment to my wife, wouldn't it be cool if that was the acan? But we both dismissed it as coralline.

Fast forward 5 years, and that acan went from pretty much nothing to (maybe) 10+ heads. I'm an sps guy, so I really don't give it much attention, but I'm glad it found a way to survive.

Awesome story of survival