I wanted to experiment with fragging a scolymia. A while back a guy had cut two in half and claimed to successfully fuse them together with one working mouth.
I cut a green scolymia in half then cut one half in half making 2 quarters. Here are some photos of one of the quarters. It seems to be doing very well, but it is healing and growing very strangely.
If you are familiar with scolymias, they have a large mouth in the center and they get a ring of feeding tentacles that are offset from the mouth by a good bit. Here is a picture (i found on the web) of a feeding scolymia
Here is a picture of a quarter of the scolymia I have in my frag tank.
There are at least 5 areas of feeder tentacles. In the picture below I've circled these areas of feeder tentacles.
What will be interesting to see as this piece heals and develops is how these feeder areas grow. Will they some how shift so that they create a single circle around a single mouth or will they develop into multiple circles containing a separate mouth.
Here is the same piece under actinic lights.
You can see the feeders pretty good in this picture under actinic lights.
I cut a green scolymia in half then cut one half in half making 2 quarters. Here are some photos of one of the quarters. It seems to be doing very well, but it is healing and growing very strangely.
If you are familiar with scolymias, they have a large mouth in the center and they get a ring of feeding tentacles that are offset from the mouth by a good bit. Here is a picture (i found on the web) of a feeding scolymia
Here is a picture of a quarter of the scolymia I have in my frag tank.
There are at least 5 areas of feeder tentacles. In the picture below I've circled these areas of feeder tentacles.
What will be interesting to see as this piece heals and develops is how these feeder areas grow. Will they some how shift so that they create a single circle around a single mouth or will they develop into multiple circles containing a separate mouth.
Here is the same piece under actinic lights.
You can see the feeders pretty good in this picture under actinic lights.