Monti rising from the dead

overclockwise · Mar 30, 2018

About a year ago I got a bunch of montis thinking my tank was good enough to keep them. Nope, within 1-2 months they all bleached out and the glued frags basically became part of my rockwork. My rockwork was pretty bare back then so I just left them glued in.

Fast forward -- after work today I was eating a sandwich while sitting in front of my tank (a typical Friday) and I noticed that I had rockwork grow polyps. A was confused a bit but lo and behold, it was one of the monti frags I had left glued onto the rock.

I was super exited and I quickly grabbed my camera to take a shot. Below, is that photo. Note that the entire "shelf" to the right of the cluster of polyps and tissue is the frag I glued way back when.

Any one else have stories of "dead" coral frags seemingly revive out of nowhere?

SPS247 · Mar 30, 2018

Awesome story!!!

Yes I have.

Ora Red Planet I wiped it out by over fragging. Almost a year later after I lost it and other SPS growing over the spot it once was there it was hiding in the shadows a glowing green spec shinning at me. At the time spotting it I no idea what it was but months to follow and me clearing space for it turned out be my red planet. I was totally blown away. I had a frog spawn do this and a pocillipora. Such an awesome thing to have happen. All I can say is your Monti growing out of nothing is going to be the hardiest piece you own.

2 tank moves and 5 yrs later I still have the red planet and frog spawn the pocillipora I gave away.

SPS247 · Mar 30, 2018

Here's a pic of my red planet now.

overclockwise · Mar 30, 2018

That's a nice red planet!

SPS247 · Mar 30, 2018

Thanks!

Robink · Mar 30, 2018

Yep, I had a meteor shower cyphastrea stn on me. I had also glued it to a rock so I never pulled it out of the tank. Here it is today.

SPS247 · Mar 30, 2018

Nice!

SPS247 · Mar 31, 2018

Anybody else out there with a coral that appeared to completly die then came back out of nothing? I was always curious about this myself so thanks for starting this overclockwise.

reefndude · Mar 31, 2018

I bought an oregon tort frag once that stn withing 24 hrs. Just left it and few months later I noticed a tiny blue spec on the base. To my surprise it bounced back to end uo being a nice mini colony. Ultimately ended up losing it to a tank crash.

chowwil · Apr 1, 2018

I have a monti that didn’t die completely. 3/4 of the piece died. Now it looks like it’s bouncing back. Also have an acro that completely died at the base. Too was still fine, now tissue is growing outward

Dennis Cartier · Apr 1, 2018

SPS247 said:
Anybody else out there with a coral that appeared to completly die then came back out of nothing? I was always curious about this myself so thanks for starting this overclockwise.

I had a frogspawn frag where I lost both heads. I left it in the tank and several months later I noticed a small dot glowing just before lights out each day. That dot turned into a hot cross bun shape with 4 polyps. Today that frogspawn is the size of a softball with many heads, and I have another colony from a polyp it dropped that had skeleton growing inside it. Glued the polyp to a frag plug and it has 4 or 5 heads now as well. I find when corals come back from the brink, they seem to be particularly hardy from that point on.

Dennis

Joshua Kerstetter · Apr 2, 2018

The first acro I ever got was a bare white stick that forked in a friends tank more like a tree, not like the clusters you normally see and it was totally bone white. I brought part of that stick from his tank home.. and after it grew out and I accidentally broke it about 4 times, I now have 4 clustered pieces that actually look like acros, once I changed over to my newer LEDs in my tank upgrade I actually see the purple polyps and they seem happy.

Wilsonfeliz · May 12, 2018

An almost DOA Bubble Coral (due to a delay in shipping) is bouncing back after RTN.

This was how i received it on september

On November it began to bounce back as many tiny baby bubbles corals from the tissue that remained in the skeleton.

And this is how it looks now

AdamNC · May 13, 2018

Four years ago this Birdsnest looked nothing more than a burnt stub about 1” x 1/2”. I thought I killed it. I just left it there and slowly one by one I started to see polyps.