unexpected finds on old rock

[treesprite]

A question for those of you whose liverock is NOT new in your tank....

 

What sorts of things have you found growing that you would not have expected, that you have never seen before in your tank, or that you thought was dead or missing but grew back?

 

These are horrible pictures, but....

- Something that may or may not be pavona, growing around the base of part of my rockwork. I've had that rock for several years, yet never saw a trace of this stuff until several months ago.

 

- I recently found some green digi growing on my rock - I had a green digi frag that died like a year ago, long before I moved. The spot was covered over by the IG monti I recently demolished (intentionally) and there was no visible trace of a coral under there.

Edited July 7, 2011 by treesprite

[gmubeach]

I like when you add cut mushrooms and they float around and find newhomes:)

[treesprite]

The flow in my tank is too high for loose shrooms to anchor on anything, so they just stay loose or sand blows on top and buries them. It's interesting that they keep growing even when loose.

[LCDRDATA]

The flow in my tank is too high for loose shrooms to anchor on anything, so they just stay loose or sand blows on top and buries them. It's interesting that they keep growing even when loose.

 

I recently transferred a large piece of rock to a new tank and in the process found loose a "pink" mushroom. It looks to be one of the red-orange rhodactis I have elsewhere in the tank that wandered off and was either partially buried or in a very dark corner. It's been out in the main tank now for about two weeks and is slowly getting some color back but is many shades paler than its tankmates.

[Integral9]

I have some kind of Kelp like thing growing on one of my rocks. It's green and basically one big leaf. I don't know where it came from. My scopas eats it, but won't eat all of it. Snails and hermits leave it alone. And it doesn't like poor water quality as hair algae and cyano will grow on it. When in good health, I think it's actually pretty nice and it's something else to watch move around in the current.

 

I like when you add cut mushrooms and they float around and find newhomes:)

That's why I hate mushrooms. I don't think you can never fully get rid of the dern things.

[Big Country]

Try getting rid of a cabbage leather coral, I continuously have pieces growing in my tank from long ago when I removed the coral from on the rocks, I still have my large colony but I keep it away from the rocks now. Every time I remove a piece that has grown out I just put it on a frag disk, eventually someone comes along looking for beginner corals.

[treesprite]

Some corals and other things simply won't die. I think some alga go dormant or something until more suitable conditions arise. SPS have trouble dying in my tank now - I have broken them off and put other things on top of them.... they always manage to find a crack of light and re-grow, or grow back when I move around whatever was sitting on top of the supposedly dead stumps. I have difficulty believing that at one time I has so much difficulty keeping them alive that I thought I'd never be able to keep them in my tank.

[LCDRDATA]

SPS have trouble dying in my tank now - I have broken them off and put other things on top of them.... they always manage to find a crack of light and re-grow, or grow back when I move around whatever was sitting on top of the supposedly dead stumps.

I wish I had your "problem;" I've never had one come back once it starts dying back. To paraphrase a famous line, when my SPS go, "they're not only merely dead, they're really most sincerely dead."