So a while back I asked about the polyps of my hammer coral randomly floating,away from the skeleton.. Well not to long ago I found another one missing and didn't know what happened to it. Today I saw a green highlight in my tank and found the missing polyp head on the bottom in some rocks still extremely alive and healthy the polyp went missing about a month ago. Another thing I found was at the base of the polyp it was growing what looks like a new skeleton. I have a few pictures but they arent so great by I figured id share any ways
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Hammer coral polyp drop off
- Thread starter Jeremy Brito
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It's called polyp dropout. Basically something stressed out the coral enough to make a last ditch effort to try and save itself. So in the wild they would keep floating till they found a better environment. In our tanks we are a little more limited. It will not regrow skeleton but it will attach to rock or rubble on it's own if the issue is corrected. I've had them attach to rocks and even frag plugs once we fixed whatever was pissing it off.
erics210
NJRC Member
What type of survival plan is that???
Makes you wonder why it won't regrow a skeleton. And how come it can't what part grew the skeleton in the first place