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I've had a few corals that have come back from the very brink. Currently working on a VERY tiny plate coral that I got that did NOT do well in transit and lost almost all of its flesh, including its MOUTH. But lo and behold, I left it alone for a week and *some* tissue came back. Fast forward another two weeks and I've successfully fed it an NLS pellet for the first time today. Still a long road to go, but if this thing grows up, it'll be one for the record.

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(shameless plug, using my @Reef Outfit frag transport, which I love)

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Mouth gone. At this point, passed off for dead and left in the sand bed.
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What's this? A bit of flesh 2 weeks later!
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After periodically squirting OysterFeast/ROE at it for 3 weeks, it finally was able to eat an NLS pellet today!
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Not the best back from the dead story but I was a complete noob at the time. About a year ago this frogspawn was losing polyps and there was some tissue recession going on. After a few months and some careful monitoring I was able to see the tissue heal and eventually another head grew which gave me a little bit more confidence in what I was doing.

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Not the best back from the dead story but I was a complete noob at the time. About a year ago this frogspawn was losing polyps and there was some tissue recession going on. After a few months and some careful monitoring I was able to see the tissue heal and eventually another head grew which gave me a little bit more confidence in what I was doing.

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I had a one head hammer that got stung very badly by a new goni, half of it including the mouth got destroyed, not its growing a new head! 2 in total :D
 

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