The reason I love coral so much

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So, a few months ago I had sorta of a tank crash on my frag tank... a starfish that I used to keep in my sump to keep things clean down there decided to commit suicide by going to the protein skimmer's pump...


I got home one day after work, and when I look at the frag tank I see what it looked like a planted freshwater tank... there was algae all over, I mean all over...
Not to go into a lot of detail and make this post extremely long, needless to say that some of my corals too a turn for the worse.

In one of the eggcrates I had in there, there were this six overgrown frags of tyree war and peace favias... they had started to grow onto the eggcrate.

A few days after the incident, they were barely alive, mostly just skeleton, but I left them in there regardless...

Probably, a month and half after that incident I start seeing them recover, however, the colors had changed!!! [emoji848][emoji848][emoji848]

Let me show you guys what I have been cooking for the past few months.... very exciting.


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They are all the same coral. Tyree war and peace favia... What is very interesting is that, I have a CB Apple Jacks favia, and this war and peace started developing the Apple Jacks' colors, but on steroids...
The colors are much much brighter, though.
 
Thank you!

Yes, I have read somewhere of corals swapping zooxanthellae amongst them... I wonder if this is the case

Seems likely.
I'm no marine biologist, but in my laymen's understanding, I figure when they were reduced to skeleton the zooxanthellae was expelled and perhaps blended with the surrounding varieties?
Either way, it's very cool and I look forward to seeing if they morph back or keep the new colors
 
They have kept these colors ever since they regrew....
The ones that came back with their original color remain OG.

I'm going to attempt to graft them, being they are the same coral, they shouldn't reject each other...
Would be pretty cool to see a grafted Tyree war and peace favia....
 
Yup that definitely looks like zooxanthellae donation. Did the CB Apple Jacks recede too or keep its flesh? Very cool to see in a favia.
 
I am finishing up my mini crash, this is a very good turn around for you. That is amazing the color transformation.
 
I am finishing up my mini crash, this is a very good turn around for you. That is amazing the color transformation.

Yes indeed. It was the best outcome possible of a mini tank crash...

It would be pretty cool if things like this would happen more often. (Zooxanthellae donation, not tank crashes)
 
Yes indeed. It was the best outcome possible of a mini tank crash...

It would be pretty cool if things like this would happen more often. (Zooxanthellae donation, not tank crashes)
Once maybe:) twice that would be pushing it:rolleyes::D as I stated before, the color are amazing. Are they staying like that our are the mulit colors fading?
 
Yes... lol
It's quite rare apparently...

The colors aren't changing at all. All the new growth is keeping the morphed colors
 

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