How many monti bits will live?

[1nc3p0puf1c3]

I recently purchased a nice red plating monti at my LFS. It must have sat there for awhile, because it was attached to the worst ever frag disc (literally just a flat reef rock the size of my hand), and said monti's skeleton had FUSED in more places than one to the rock. Using my handy dremel and a small saw bit, I was able to get most of the untouched rock and reef glue off, but then-snap. I wiggled the rock a little too forcefully and the monti snapped into 13 pieces. As soon as they broke off I put them in a container of tank water with an airstone (Meant for the whole monti... :<). The red circles are to show all the monti bits I attached back into my tank. How many do you think will survive?

Also, ignore my Duncan coral, she's a drama queen. (I bumped a sponge against her skeleton.)

 

[Dburr1014]

I recently purchased a nice red plating monti at my LFS. It must have sat there for awhile, because it was attached to the worst ever frag disc (literally just a flat reef rock the size of my hand), and said monti's skeleton had FUSED in more places than one to the rock. Using my handy dremel and a small saw bit, I was able to get most of the untouched rock and reef glue off, but then-snap. I wiggled the rock a little too forcefully and the monti snapped into 13 pieces. As soon as they broke off I put them in a container of tank water with an airstone (Meant for the whole monti... :<). The red circles are to show all the monti bits I attached back into my tank. How many do you think will survive?

Also, ignore my Duncan coral, she's a drama queen. (I bumped a sponge against her skeleton.)

The sad part is that probably all of them will survive. You will end up with a species tank unable to put anything else in there when they all fuse back together as they grow. Is that what you're going for?

 

[dastrader]

Def. Most of those will survive (if not all)

 

[1nc3p0puf1c3]

I recently purchased a nice red plating monti at my LFS. It must have sat there for awhile, because it was attached to the worst ever frag disc (literally just a flat reef rock the size of my hand), and said monti's skeleton had FUSED in more places than one to the rock. Using my handy dremel and a small saw bit, I was able to get most of the untouched rock and reef glue off, but then-snap. I wiggled the rock a little too forcefully and the monti snapped into 13 pieces. As soon as they broke off I put them in a container of tank water with an airstone (Meant for the whole monti... :<). The red circles are to show all the monti bits I attached back into my tank. How many do you think will survive?

Also, ignore my Duncan coral, she's a drama queen. (I bumped a sponge against her skeleton.)

The sad part is that probably all of them will survive. You will end up with a species tank unable to put anything else in there when they all fuse back together as they grow. Is that what you're going for?

I want all of them to survive, yes. This is my first reef tank in a while so the more survive the better.

 

[Waters]

I want all of them to survive, yes. This is my first reef tank in a while so the more survive the better.

You say that now.....you will feel differently a year from now lol.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

They will all survive and unfortunately you will likely regret this. I would remove all except one while you still have time.

 

[djf91]

Idk, looks like a brand new tank.

 

[Damage12]

Agreed with almost all above. They will all likely survive and you will want them all gone in a year because they will overtake the tank.