Coral Branch Against Rock

[KenRexford]

If a branching sps coral (e.g., birdsnest) has a branch that grows straight toward a rock, and then rums into that rock (in very slow speed), will that branch encrust onto the impeding rock and start in a sense a new colony, or perhaps a new wing of the colony, from that spot? Xenia sort of does this, but that's soft. Obviously any encrusting sps does, but that's different.

 

[Iván Olalla]

The branch will flat itself against the rock, encrust a little and grow towards light....happens to me all the time against the glass

 

[FMF0331]

yes , that branch will encrust onto the new rock and continue to grow