Fungia reproduction

[oceaninabox]

How does these pretty little plate corals reproduce?

 

[Sr5_Reef]

I thought they kind split or form another mouth and then slowly split. BUT thats what ive always thought, i havent seen any do it.
Following along.
If any one has pictures that would be cool too

 

[stylaster]

hey perry i have a mother colony that is spitting out babies all the time. They usually reproduce when a coral has been damaged or is dying, the inlying tissue will sometimes survive and will reproduce babies from there. Here is my reproducing colony

 

[RaysReef]

I've always thought they drop babies while the mother colony still stays the same *Round*

 

[stylaster]

nope my piece that the babies sprout from is actually only 1/4 of the original coral. The babies grow out on stalks and then they are big enough the pop off the stalk, the tissue that is left will then regrow another fungia. The one i have currently has produced over 15 off spring in 2 years time

 

[RaysReef]

nope my piece that the babies sprout from is actually only 1/4 of the original coral. The babies grow out on stalks and then they are big enough the pop off the stalk, the tissue that is left will then regrow another fungia. The one i have currently has produced over 15 off spring in 2 years time

15 in 2 yrs...wow, usually I've seen and heard about once or twice a year.

 

[oceaninabox]

Wow, I would like to get one of these new colored ones to produce like that

 

[kass03]

Yeah usually the mother dies but parts of it survive and babies grow from that.

kass