Ever known a 'popped base' coral to grow a new base?

[Sk8r]

I have 3 popped heads of a monster hammer that are loose in my tank. They have found places. The parent is, btw, doing fine. Two have been in the same place for 6 months. Has anyone here had a popped head actually develop a base?

[thebanker]

Popped heads = polyp bailout?

My friend's frogspawn just bailed on it's stony stalk, and it's free living like an anemone. Very weird phenomenon...

[mscarpena]

I had this happen and they started to, but then for some unknown reason they all died in like 2-3 days. They lived off the skeleton for like 6-7 months.

[ritter6788]

I have a frogspawn that had a small head appear on the sandbed one day so I picked it up and it had a little stony base to it. I don't know the term for it but the main colony is doing the thing where it "drips" polyps off of it. I glued the small head onto a plug and the thing is actually starting to grow.
This is how I found it on the sandbed.
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee283/ritter6788/IMG_0122.jpg

[BFG]

This is the kind of 'problem' I wish happen to me. Checked around my hammer but there's no baby coral.

[Sk8r]

These have been 'free' for over 2 years. I haven't hassled them to find out the state of their bases, but one has moved, about 9 months ago, to where it sits now. It's huge for what it is, but so are all the parent heads. The 'mama' coral has more heads than I can count---it's bigger than a basketball, and as soon as we get through the holidays I'm going to frag it because it's taking my rather small tank---and the heads are huge, over 2" across. Ditto the 'free' heads. So maybe there's a chance: frog and hammer grow well in this tank. I'd be really happy to have a few 'starts' that have a peculiar history in my tank.

[mscarpena]

Dripping off is different than polyp bailout. I have had corals drip off the skeleton and they have been just fine because they do come with some skeleton attached. If it has been 2 years I would say your in the clear and the corals should have a skeleton base. Good luck and keep us posted.

[thebanker]

Is "dripping off" basically budding a polyp that bails out? Never heard of this happening with anything other than nephthea.

[kawicivic]

I had a piece drop in my temporary tank. It is at my parents house so I do not know if it dripped off with skeleton or just bailed off (I have seen both in the past and never knew anyone who actually had one survive) I did the same thing as ritter and glued my piece to rock. It sat on the live rock for probably a month and one day when I was over there cleaning I found it. When I got it in my hand I realized there was a piece of skeleton so I have glued it down. Last I was over there it had tripled in size and is growing very well. I have found that even the little nubs on the stalks do pretty well once you get them clipped off and onto their own piece of live rock. I haven't decided if its because of optimal conditions or if they somehow "know" (sounds kind of dumb) that they are no longer part of the colony and its survival instinct.

[mscarpena]

Dripping off to me is when a new head with a skeletal base detachs from the parent colony and starts a new colony. Not polyp bail out. Polyp bailout is when the fleshy part and no skeleton drops off. I by no means think dripping off is a technical or proper term, but it was used in this thread so I stuck with it. Also never heard it called anything before so dripping off sounds good to me.

[ritter6788]

Dripping off to me is when a new head with a skeletal base detachs from the parent colony and starts a new colony. Not polyp bail out. Polyp bailout is when the fleshy part and no skeleton drops off. I by no means think dripping off is a technical or proper term, but it was used in this thread so I stuck with it. Also never heard it called anything before so dripping off sounds good to me.

Just took this pic of my frogspawn. It's doing it again.
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee283/ritter6788/fe411965.jpg

[Elysia]

I had a trumpet coral that did polyp bail-out on me, along with a blasto. I eventually lost track of the blastos when I moved the tanks, but they lived free of any skeleton for well over a year. The trumpets also continue to live (it is just about to reach a year for some of them.) Two were doing very well and enlarging, but I accidently punctured one when I was moving it and it developed a fatal brown jelly infection. I do not have much hope for any of the polyps, as none of mine have ever created any kind of skeleton after bail-out. But I never had a head live for two years sans-skeleton, either. Hope it is positive in your situation.

[Sk8r]

I can report that, yes, one, a frogspawn, has grown a 'foot' and officially has started a skeleton that weights it to the sand. I'm dripping kalk and feeding krill to the corals.

[jenny1979]

Mine does it regularly.... there's a new one just growing. Never had any problems with missing skeleton or things like that. Maybe I have just been lucky

[flyyyguy]

years ago I had one bail(frog) and many months later found it back behind my rock, bleached with the begining of a new skeleton forming.

I should have left it lie where it was apparently doing what it was supposed to because moving it didnt work out so well

[flyyyguy]

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[bebereef]

i've been told it could be caused when missing strontium, anyone heard that?
It happened to my frogspawn and i'm looking for a reason why and a cure....