Well there wa a reason it died off. Did you have proper lights, proper water parameters.......All the books I have read says its not a beginnners coral, but I obtained a frag by accident that was only about 2 or three tubes total that was hidden in a scoop of live sand that I bought for my 2 gal pico one time. That little frag emerged up out of the sand with a bright green top, and caught my wifes eye one day. We watched it and soonit was evident it was a pipe organ. It has now grown numerous times larger and most of our tanks have frags off that original small piece. Most are the sizes of baseballs or larger, as the stuff grows fantastic, and as to not being recomended for a beginer, I fin dit one of the easiet corals yet, right there along with mushrooms IMHO. I do find that it does better if its in a sand bed than if its attached to a piece of LR though.