Is it coming back to life?

[lil.guppy]

So here is that frag that I got that started dying because of the shipping heat pack issues.
It lost all its tissue and was just these empty little holes everywhere. No there is this white stuff all over it? Is it coming back to life or something?
I have the before and after pic
By the way, in the recent pic notice my CC line

Im slowly but surely gettin there

 

[saltn00b]

that is coraline algae growing on the once clean surface

 

[lil.guppy]

The first picture is the one from today and the 2nd pic is from a almost a week ago.

 

[saltn00b]

oh. strange that the white bare skeleton is whitER in the first pic then.
either way, i cant see what that green is, but there has never been a documented case (to my knowledge) of a coral that has lost all flesh , been reduced to nothing but skeleton, that started to grow flesh again.
once the coral is gone, it's gone. they are fragile animals.

 

[lil.guppy]

Yea that green that is on the end was always there. I think it was just algae or something.
I know it is weird that its doing that.

 

[vandy12069]

try fragging the alive part off so the death dont spread

 

[alix2.0]

Originally Posted by saltn00b
http:///forum/post/2941528
oh. strange that the white bare skeleton is whitER in the first pic then.
either way, i cant see what that green is, but there has never been a documented case (to my knowledge) of a coral that has lost all flesh , been reduced to nothing but skeleton, that started to grow flesh again.
once the coral is gone, it's gone. they are fragile animals.
i dont think its coming back, but i thought that that was quite common? of course not 100% of the flesh gone, but enough that only small unnoticable pieces remain. i have a bubble coral that i thought was completely dead, and even got covered in a thin layer of algae, that is now starting to regrow tissue.

 

[saltn00b]

bubble will receed from its outer ribs into it's mouth. i also had one come back from near nothingness, but again , the point being NEAR. those extra large polyped LPS like cynarina, indophylia's etc are one polyp. it's not like each bubble is it's own polyp. when the polyp is gone, it's gone. her coral looks like it was a type of favia or acan even, which are colonies of smaller LPS polyps. the only way it could come back if there were polyps that were still alive. if they were all skeleton, its not happening.

 

[lil.guppy]

I think it was star polyp but im not sure.

 

[saltn00b]

green star polyp grows on a purple matte and does not make a calcareous structure