[Hosser]

I had bought a nice little frag of bright red long tentacle zoo's (pic in gallery) after about a month they never opened again. I kinda left them alone and after my recent move where I left the sand and a couple gallons of water in the tank I found them in the back today. Still closed up but not decayed or rotten away.

I put them in a nice high light area with medium flow. Im hoping they pull through but Im not sure why they would have closed up in the first place. Everything else in the tank is great.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance
Yes water params are just fine.

[ljv]

When I first started my reef tank, I had a rock with some really nice Pink Zoos. They were my first coral purchase ever. About 4-5 months in, I had a major slime algae attack. The tank eventually recovered, but I thought I lost the pink Zoos. They had been slimed over and were closed up. Some melted away and a few remaining ones shrunk down until it looked like a scrap of tissue with some pimples on it. After a few weeks I gave up on them ever opening up again and basically forgot about them.

At least a year later, I was looking at the rock that used to have the pink zoos and I saw two small pink polyps. I was pretty excited, since that was my first coral that I had given up for dead. Within a few months they had grown and spread. I fragged them and then had a few healthy clusters growing in the tank.

Why did they remained closed up for so long even after the water quality issue was fixed? Why did they magically reappear? I have no idea. I never moved the rock or made any major changes to lighting or flow. I had other zoos that had stayed open and grown during their year in hiding.

I suppose my suggestion would be to have patience. Perhaps give them a few weeks where they are and then maybe move them into areas with different levels of flow or lighting.

[jimw369]

I like that story Larry...hahaha.

I had a nice frag of Pink Flamingos probably 30 polyps. Before I could find a good spot for them and get them glued down they fell into the rockwork. Your story gives me hope

I did have some halloween zoas (or close)3 polyps on a frag.
Hermits ate the glue from the frag disk and the polyps fell into the rocks months later I recovered 2 of the polyps bouncing across the front glass. Doing well now. Back up
to 3!!!!