Will hard coral tissue grow back?

I had a silent killer in my tank...phosphates. It caused an overwelming algae problem (red slime and green air). It was apparently in my tap water. I am now using RO water to keep this situation from reoccuring. All of my parameters are darn near perfect now.

My question is this...I had a frag of hard coral that was a vibrant green color....I want to say it was a form of brain coral. It ended up losing all of its tissue/green algea and became covered with green hair algea and purple coraline.

Well it appears to be gaining some of its green specks back and losing some of its coraline.

Is it possible for the tissue and algea to reapear like this or is this just another green algea?

THANKS!

 

what kind of coral was it exactly. if it is a white skeleton covered in algae, there is not too much hope for it, but if it is just bleached, try lowering it from the light source.

 

If there were some areas of flesh left, then it's possible, but if it was all dead, most likely not. It's probably just some type of algae growing on the skeleton.

 

I wish I knew what kind it was. It is, from what I can tell, just skeleton covered by algea and coraline. I guess it must be another algea. Oh well.

Thanks.

 

i have heard of brain corals "coming back to life" and have also heard never to remove one if it does die just for that reason. not trying to give you false hope. but is is possible. please come back and update what happens im gonna subscribe. curious to see what happens

 

Definately will. Hopefully I can get a few pics too.

 

pics are the only way to confirm this

 

Algae is a big problem with favid brain corals from what I understand, as they commonly out-compete the brains in tanks.