Your rOldest Corals

[marrone]

I know someone members have kept fish for years, some even for a decades, including myself, but how about corals? Let hear, and see pictures of, the longevity of corals that members have kept.

 

[ming]

I've had my xenia for 9 years, and still didn't finish killing it :lol2:

 

[ming]

My next oldest coral is probably the green nepthea and the green polyp toadstool.. about 8 years. A lot of my SPS corals are in the 4-5 years range

 

[prattreef]

I've got green mushrooms that started from 1 polyp in 1994, a branching hammer ( Euphyllia parancora) that is at least 12 yrs old, an A. millepora that is still hanging in there ( barely) from about the same time, and sadly I lost a whole systrem of corals approaching the 15yr. mark last summer Lots and lots of things in the 8-10 year range.

 

[ming]

I've got green mushrooms that started from 1 polyp in 1994, a branching hammer ( Euphyllia parancora) that is at least 12 yrs old, an A. millepora that is still hanging in there ( barely) from about the same time, and sadly I lost a whole systrem of corals approaching the 15yr. mark last summer Lots and lots of things in the 8-10 year range.

I think I got a piece of your orange pavona which was in your system that crashed last summer. Does that bump me up to the 15 year mark? :lol2:

 

[prattreef]

hmm. the pavona wasn't that old, but I'd love a piece of that back

 

[Vic8361]

hmm. the pavona wasn't that old, but I'd love a piece of that back

LOL it's always a good thing when you can get you stuff back.

I have a pagoda cup, candy cane, frogspawn, mushrooms and green button polyps that are at least 12yrs old. A pulsing sinularia thats 9 yrs a potatochip pavona thats 9yrs as well.
Green bubble and a pearl bubble that are 9yrs also.
I don't know if this counts but I have this encrusting leather thats over 12 yrs as well..

Vic

 

[tentacles]

I've got some mushrooms that survived through a crash and a move that are 2 whole years old. take that, Ming and Randy!


oh, and the mushrooms were from your tank too, Randy:biggrin:

 

[jerl77]

5 years yellow milli

 

[MIKE NY]

frogspawn 15 years and candy canes about same are my oldest real corals..if you consider polyps then I have some buttons and yellows that are older....

 

[e.muehlbauer]

I lost count...but I have a lobo and Pavona that are in the 8-10 year range, and some montis that are in that range also.....I find corals to be longer lived than fish. If they can last over a year, they can last forever.

 

[reeferguy]

quick question... say a corals life span is like 20 years or something. if you frag it does that wind back the clock or something?

 

[ming]

I'm not sure you can place a time frame on a coral. Some corals, such as candy canes just keep splitting heads so you can't tell which is the original.
I would think in the case of an acro, after 20 years, the original polyps would be so far under other thick branches from growing, it would die from lack of light, or from a parrotfish

 

[House of Laughter]

RD,

Somewhere I have a piece of the confusa from the back tank Also the pulchra (Spelling?)

I have a few that are 10 years (long as I been in the hobby)

Purple Rim Cap
Purple Stylophora
Acan Echinata
Orange Cap with White polyps from Vic

Others are 6-8 yrs old -

Kedds green table
Green pipe organ

More to come

House

 

[LatinP]

quick question... say a corals life span is like 20 years or something. if you frag it does that wind back the clock or something?

There are gigantic corals in the ocean that are thousands of years old, a coral's lifespan isn't measured in the tens or hundreds of years it can be alot longer provided the environment is ideal. Corals don't just die they multiply unless they come in contact with humans, they are highly allergic!

 

[OOtzie]

we don't die we multiplyy!

 

[64Ivy]

I have a colony of Palythoa that's over 15 years old. Survived a major tank crash too.

 

[JARRETT SHARK]

came late in the reef game but I have GSP and starr polpys that are 5 years old but i was told it came from a tank that was 10years at the time so it makes it 15years old