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GoFish
12-06-2015, 06:17 PM
Do you have any before and after pics or stories of corals you thought were goners but turned around and survived/thrived?

Bleaching, STN, RTN, stung by other corals?

If so please share :)

Aquattro
12-06-2015, 06:46 PM
No pics, but there was a colony of pink birdsnest, nicest one I ever saw that originated with Shao (smokingreefer) and I had a nice piece. Last one that I knew of. It crapped out and died, and while cleaning my tank, I found a little nub, maybe 2 or 4 polyps. I carefully glued it to a plug and found a nice spot, and it eventually came back into a nice colony. Which, of course, I no longer have :)

Dearth
12-06-2015, 06:54 PM
Tried killing my tank with kindness earlier this year in the spring after a cyano outbreak this is what it looked like at its worst dead and dying corals, unhappy tank inhabitants and pretty blah looking

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/Dearth01/7746A54E-DEF3-4653-9135-4971074FFE56_zpspjmqsuex.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Dearth01/media/7746A54E-DEF3-4653-9135-4971074FFE56_zpspjmqsuex.jpg.html)


This is my tank a month ago complete turn around with glorious colour

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v447/Dearth01/IMG_6176_zpsctsfy5cm.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Dearth01/media/IMG_6176_zpsctsfy5cm.jpg.html)

GoFish
12-06-2015, 09:35 PM
Its pretty cool when you grow an SPS colony from even a single polyp. Cant remember what vendor in the US does that on purpose but there's a vid on youtube somewhere

That's quite the turnaraound Dearth! Do you know what you're parameters were in the first pic? Looked verrry unhappy... Kudos for sticking with it

Heres a couple Chalices i was wanting to sell or trade last year for pretty cheap. Nothing panned out so ended up keeping them.
A couple months before the first pic they were completely dead looking, not even a speck of flesh anywhere. But threw them into a low light are of the tank and they slowly came back to life
http://i.imgur.com/iVRxkzC.jpg

about a year and half later here they are
http://i.imgur.com/HlvAkim.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/VEFDzk7.jpg

Myka
12-06-2015, 11:35 PM
about a year and half later here they are

Good job! I can't even say for certain which one is which. :lol:

somafish
12-07-2015, 12:14 AM
http://http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a206/michaelb111/Mobile%20Uploads/20140107_210819_zpsvv8ywoww.jpg (http://s12.photobucket.com/user/michaelb111/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20140107_210819_zpsvv8ywoww.jpg.html)

Dearth
12-07-2015, 12:36 AM
http://http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a206/michaelb111/Mobile%20Uploads/20140107_210819_zpsvv8ywoww.jpg (http://s12.photobucket.com/user/michaelb111/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20140107_210819_zpsvv8ywoww.jpg.html)

Where is the picture Somafish

somafish
12-07-2015, 01:22 AM
my phone pics can't upload for some reason (even with photobucket) so I will explain the 2 photos. 1st photo. A mangled torn to shreds anemone who met is untimely demise to a powerhead. 2nd photo. A beautiful dinner plate size when open anemone,that knows how to write perfect cursive........ they are the same one!!

Myka
12-07-2015, 03:39 AM
I only see the sad little shredded one.

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GoFish
12-07-2015, 02:29 PM
Here's somafish's anemone. Quite the recovery, and perfect cursive? They dont even teach that in schools anymore
http://s12.postimg.org/t71mgb7od/image.jpg (http://postimage.org/)
http://s30.postimg.org/hirg3swyp/image.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

GoFish
01-01-2017, 12:12 AM
Another recent recovery from a peroxide incident..
http://i.imgur.com/VPt2yFx.jpg

DKoKoMan
01-02-2017, 10:29 PM
Unfortunately most my LPS when they go on the decline don't come back :sad: