A nice surprise
 

I bought some rubble off of the LFS a couple of weeks ago and found a doomed coral amoung the bits and pieces. I thought I'd attempt to save it, and after a couple of weeks so far so good.

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...s/IMGP1715.jpg

I guess I'll owe the LFS a frag of this if I can manage to get it to grow some more.

Another nice surprise is this little fella who came out of hiding. It's the only one left of a 150+ colony I used to have until a blue lined rabbit fish ate them all. To the upper left of the pic there might be another one but I haven't seen it extend yet so I'm not sure.

Grow little buddy grow!

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...s/IMGP1720.jpg

My blasto is starting to go the way of the top picture. What are you doing to bring it back so that I can try to save mine.

always nice to get a bonus :)

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Is it a blasto? I thought I might have gotten lucky with an Acan, oh well.

So far, I have it up pretty high with moderate current. I spot feed it a couple of times a week with reef roids too. Thats what I do with all of my corals and they seem to be growing nicely.

Yep its a blasto, nice one too. It will be gorgeous when it recovers :cool:

Too early to frag? :mrgreen:

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I don't know if it's too early.

I was debating cutting off the dead patches with a dremel, but haven't because I'm assuming that the coral will use the dead patches as a mantle to grow on. Am I correct in my assumption?

Blastamusas spread by budding off the parent polyp, so eventually the new polyps will over-grow the dead ones. It's going to be a beauty.

yeah i'd just leave it and wait till its nice and healthy to frag it :biggrin:

Thanks for the advice. I'll move it higher in the tank. They are beautiful corals.