Green Brain comes back from the dead

[TW]

Last year I bought a green brain coral for my reef. It never did well
in my tank and over a period of months slowly died. In the end there
was no green 'flesh' left. At the time I was re- organizing my LR. I
used the brain as a piece of rubble at the back of my tank away from the
lights. It sat there untouched in the dark for almost a year. I was
recently dealing with a bad bout of cyno that required that I move some
LR for cleaning. I could not believe my eyes when I spied the brain was
in fact alive. The colour was much lighter than before. Probably from
the lack of light. Almost of 1/3 of the coral had come back. I moved
it back to the front of my tank and placed it under an overhang to
shield it from direct light. Over a period of weeks I slowly brought
it out into the light. Now it is 3-4 months later and it is about
half covered. The progress is very slow but it is definitely
improving. I now dose with Kalk and frequently use carbon and all my
corals are doing much better.

Just to let you know that sometimes when you think its a goner, there
may be some life left. After several failures over the past few years I
am particularly proud of this little success.

Todd

[rs11]

Same thing happened to me with 2 plate corals, thought they were dead but
was to lazy to take them out of the tank. A year later I noticed that each
one had many "things" on it. Those things turned out to be new plate corals,
now have around 30 new ones. the largest is 3" diamiter. Also a Brian coral
has started to regenerate. Now I do not take dead corals out of the tank.
Rob
"TW" > wrote in message
.. .
> Last year I bought a green brain coral for my reef. It never did well
> in my tank and over a period of months slowly died. In the end there
> was no green 'flesh' left. At the time I was re- organizing my LR. I
> used the brain as a piece of rubble at the back of my tank away from the
> lights. It sat there untouched in the dark for almost a year. I was
> recently dealing with a bad bout of cyno that required that I move some
> LR for cleaning. I could not believe my eyes when I spied the brain was
> in fact alive. The colour was much lighter than before. Probably from
> the lack of light. Almost of 1/3 of the coral had come back. I moved
> it back to the front of my tank and placed it under an overhang to
> shield it from direct light. Over a period of weeks I slowly brought
> it out into the light. Now it is 3-4 months later and it is about
> half covered. The progress is very slow but it is definitely
> improving. I now dose with Kalk and frequently use carbon and all my
> corals are doing much better.
>
> Just to let you know that sometimes when you think its a goner, there
> may be some life left. After several failures over the past few years I
> am particularly proud of this little success.
>
> Todd
>

[Marc Levenson]

Todd and Rob,

That is very cool. My caulastea has been receeding to the point that I expect
death any time. Yet it has been hanging on and I'm ignoring them. And who
knows?

Marc


rs11 wrote:

> Same thing happened to me with 2 plate corals, thought they were dead but
> was to lazy to take them out of the tank. A year later I noticed that each
> one had many "things" on it. Those things turned out to be new plate corals,
> now have around 30 new ones. the largest is 3" diamiter. Also a Brian coral
> has started to regenerate. Now I do not take dead corals out of the tank.
> Rob
> "TW" > wrote in message
> .. .
> > Last year I bought a green brain coral for my reef. It never did well
> > in my tank and over a period of months slowly died. In the end there
> > was no green 'flesh' left. At the time I was re- organizing my LR. I
> > used the brain as a piece of rubble at the back of my tank away from the
> > lights. It sat there untouched in the dark for almost a year. I was
> > recently dealing with a bad bout of cyno that required that I move some
> > LR for cleaning. I could not believe my eyes when I spied the brain was
> > in fact alive. The colour was much lighter than before. Probably from
> > the lack of light. Almost of 1/3 of the coral had come back. I moved
> > it back to the front of my tank and placed it under an overhang to
> > shield it from direct light. Over a period of weeks I slowly brought
> > it out into the light. Now it is 3-4 months later and it is about
> > half covered. The progress is very slow but it is definitely
> > improving. I now dose with Kalk and frequently use carbon and all my
> > corals are doing much better.
> >
> > Just to let you know that sometimes when you think its a goner, there
> > may be some life left. After several failures over the past few years I
> > am particularly proud of this little success.
> >
> > Todd
> >

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