So much growth... too much growth? Deformity?

[Jonathan blackwood]

My trumpets lately have been growing and splitting so fast lately in the last month or 2. That it now has a huge "saggy sack" lol of tissue hanging off of it. This started out as 2 heads , and about 6 months later. It has turned into this. But major growth started 2 months ago. All I why know is why this head can't seem to split and it just keeps getting bigger and more saggy lol

 

[glb]

It's good that they're growing but I have no clue about the saggy one. Very weird.

 

[Davesgt]

Not sure on this either but I have had several do this on my colony that I fragged. I did notice once they split the saggy went away

 

[NanoDJS]

It's building another head

 

[millertyler22]

Mabey calcium is low? I'm not sure just a guess because it needs the Skelton to grow along with the polop to support the new growth right?

 

[Chefbill]

Many corals drip as a method of reproduction

 

[mrcoffee2]

Yeah, looks like it is spawning

 

[Macdaddynick1]

My trumpets lately have been growing and splitting so fast lately in the last month or 2. That it now has a huge "saggy sack" lol of tissue hanging off of it. This started out as 2 heads , and about 6 months later. It has turned into this. But major growth started 2 months ago. All I why know is why this head can't seem to split and it just keeps getting bigger and more saggy lol

A pice of a skeleton inside of it broke off inside of it , and the gravity pulled it down from the main part but the coral is still growing around it, I have had the same thing happen to my Pectinia until i decided to cut it off and do a biopsy, to investigate .

 

[Jonathan blackwood]

Is it bad to leave it ?? Or ?

 

[Macdaddynick1]

Is it bad to leave it ?? Or ?

It kind of makes it unique, It isn't anything bad , just a physical deformity . If you don't mind it looking like that.

 

[Triggreef]

A pice of a skeleton inside of it broke off inside of it , and the gravity pulled it down from the main part but the coral is still growing around it, I have had the same thing happen to my Pectinia until i decided to cut it off and do a biopsy, to investigate .

Agreed I had one do the same thing from a piece of loose skeleton inside the head. I personally just lopped the broken part out once it pulled down far enough.

 

[Jonathan blackwood]

Deformity it is :)

 

[mcarroll]

Many corals drip as a method of reproduction

@Chefbill, I think your comment may have been missed.

Reproduction does not equal deformity folks. ;P

I've seen corals do this apparently as a form of self defence as well as escape, though in the latter case, the separation is usually completed vs hanging....and called "polyp bailout".

I also had green and orange M. capricornis that sorta "bubbled" like this when they'd grow "too fast"....it was different since they are plating. It'd happen in the middle of a plate, so nowhere to "sag"....instead it would blister up. It wouldn't last though.

Personally, my guess is that with yours it is self-defense against one of those LPS below it....

In my best Arnold accent: "It's naaaht a deformity."

And a good article on the "costs" of growing fast to a coral:
"Fast Growth May Impair Regeneration Capacity"

You can look it up for free on PlosONE's website.