Saving a bleaching coral from LFS

[AquaGrizzly]

I don't know if I should of bought it but I did. The place that Noah built had a browning birdsnest and the base was bleaching. I bought it and fragged all of the parts of that weren't bleached. I have prob. 10 frags of this with a couple branches on each frag. I'm still thinking I should have left it though. The PE is starting to come back but not sure if it was worth the trouble unless it makes a total come back. Here are some pics of a couple frags.

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I have 4 more rocks with 2-3 frags on it as well.
Does anyone think they have a chance at a full come back?

[lostwhirley]

I think it has a chance to come back. I bought 2 baseball size galaxia and they came back immediately after 2 weeks.

If you have good water parameters, typically, anything can come back.

[jaimwolfe]

Hey Scott,

That almost looks like a pocillopora, not a birdsnest. Usually birdsnests have pretty sharp (pointed) tips. I'm no expert though.

[AquaGrizzly]

O.K. Thanks Jaim. I'm not very good at I.D.ing corals. The LFS had it as a birdsnest. When they first got this in about 4 months ago it was pink. I watched it start to bleach over time. They fragged it in 1/4's and tried selling those. Those started to bleach as well. The colony I bought was a little bigger than a baseball. From the middle to the base was bleached and had some H A on it. They have a nice pavona that is pretty big, but they won't frag it. We'll see what happens over the next couple of weeks.

[bklynmet]

birdsnest and pocillopora are in the same family so I can see how the LFS may have mislabeled. Scott, if you remember Jaim's tank from yesterday, he had both in his tank and the 'birstnest' looked like thorny leafless bush.