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Does anyone know if this fungia coral is splitting? It has tentacles coming from the purple area where the coral is stretching out its epidermis.

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Looks more like “Budding” than splitting. The plate corals often die- go to seed and children bud from off the “dead” plate.
Yours appears to be budding while still alive, which is interesting.
 
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Looks more like “Budding” than splitting. The plate corals often die- go to seed and children bud from off the “dead” plate.
Yours appears to be budding while still alive, which is interesting.
IDK guys, this thing looks to be splitting in threes.
I just feed it and this mouth is huge. Cutting down the center and around the right side of it

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This part here looks to be three mouths itself but it’s one giant mouth
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First off, that’s an awesome color! It looks like it was eating at the time to me. Passing mysis toward the mouths. There are two mouths I see clearly. Have you checked the bottom to see if the skeleton is splitting along distinct lines? It could be a Diaseris that naturally fracture and frag themselves.
 

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