Awesome recovery from gulf live rock hitchhiker coral

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saltcreep1025

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I got two different coral hitchhikers on some uncured gulf live rock I bought. When i first got them, they were nothing but white skeleton, but after a week or so I started noticing they were coming back! Here is the first one shortly after I noticed.

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And here is a picture of it today... maybe a month and a half later.

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Here is the other one almost completely dead...

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Here it is recovered a little bit...

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And here it is today...

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This rock was out of water, just covered in wet paper towel, for over 48 hours. Amazing what can survive!
 
I havn't been able to identify it yet. I'll probably have to wait for it to grow a bit before I can tell. My best clue is that its a species native to the gulf.
 
Florida rock is loaded with hitch hikers...good and bad. Lots of mantis shrimp as well! I was going to order some simply for the diverse assortment of macro algae you'll find on them.
 
I heard that a good way to get mantis out is to put the rock into a high salinity batch of water and they will try to escape, is that true?
 
Very much I actually use some of the fresh scallops for fish and eel food in my home mix and sometimes come home with a bunch of different macro algaes from gathering the scallops that I use in my refugium
 
Your so lucky, I can't do that in Toronto. I did grow up ont the Dalmatian cost and miss it a lot, snorkelling was my only thing
 
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