Coral experiments

[reefwars]

Well my mind is blown even though I voted it would survive I kinda thought it would melt and not survive I mean it's way too cold for coral to be outside all night so now goes the question what extremes can coral be put through

[Oilers]

Denny,
None of this actually exists until we see some pictures!!

[reefwars]

Haha very true I actually have pictures taken of everything all post them on this thread tomorrow I have pictures of the coral before it went outside when its a block of ice and how it looks right now it's pretty cool

[arrowan54]

had red people eaters I was fragging I cut a small part off rock went flying across room could not find it anywhere 2 weeks went by found the little frag in the stand threw it in the tank coral rehydrated opened up looked normal 2 days later it melted completely away so from this observation I am going to say give it a couple days

[Wheelman76]

That's pretty cool , I didnt think it would survive.

[hillegom]

I voted it won't survive but am amazed it has so far.
I vote for a week test.

[mark]

guess can't use the excuse "UPS let them freeze" anymore

[reefwars]

well the zoanthid as of this morning is dead , one polyp remains but the stress wasnt good for him and he didnt make it


so the next experiment you ask?


im going to take 5 single polyp frags and leave them out to dry , each day i will put one back in the tank and then monitor its recovery or death.


cheers

denny

[whatcaneyedo]

I once tried something similar but of the opposite extreme. I took a rock out of my tank that had a small patch of green star polyps on it that I wanted removed. I then blasted the star polyps with a small butane torch for a while until I figured they'd be good and dead. Afterwards I returned the rock to the tank and about a week later the star polyps were back. My recollection is a bit hazy but I think I ended up needing to hire a priest to exorcise that demon from my tank. So I bet if you try your experiment with those you will have a higher survival rate.

[spit.fire]

Originally Posted by monocus

what i would like to do is take some coral from the coast(pink dendros i think) and slowly raise the temp over a year

Any idea of the scientific name?