Tube anemone reappearance

[brisco15]

So bought a tube anemone over 2 years ago, an amazing purple tentacles with blue speckles and a neon green mouth did great for a year then my pink spotted goby I assumed buried it and never saw it again. Yesterday mind you over a year down the road my wife tells me she spotted the largest aiptasia she has ever seen. Low and behold the tube anemone is back and banging! Anyone ever heard of this happening? How could it have survived under the sand that long? Pictures to come soon super happy to have it back either way.

 

[bpitts4]

Nice story....glad to see its making a comeback.

 

[acroholic]

Maybe it resurfaced in an area of the rock not visible to you for the past year+, and it is now just appearing in a visible area?

 

[brisco15]

Resurfaced exact same spot facing opposite direction?!?

 

[budsreef]

That's really cool; they are way hardier than you might think! I have two of them and love em. After moving my tank to Florida, before I had a chance to get sand back in the tank, the pink one decided it didn't like the spot it was in so it pulled itself out the back of its tube and started crawling around the tank until it attached itself under a rock. Once I got sand in the right side of the tank where I wanted them both to live, I pulled up the rock and gently pulled it off. Unfortunately it got away from me and even though I have a cover on my MP40 it got sucked into the front of it. I immediately dropped the rock and turned off the MP40 but there was nothing in it so I figured it was totally pureed. A little later I saw what looked like a shriveled up black worm under some rock, moved it to the sand and buried it. Within a few days pink tentacles started poking up through the sand and now it looks as good as ever even though it still hasn't grown back the thicker covering.