FernBluffReef
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Self fragging torch coral?
I have not seen a lot about this. I hear of fragging torches or some about torch spawning events. I guess I missed torch self-fragging. Until now I believed that to be largely a softy thing (aka Xenia)
The torch pictured here has dropped two buds, babies, heads what ever you want to call them in the last couple days. The first one is down in a crevice where I can’t really get to it without most likely harming, hence where it will stay for now. No i don’t thing this is bailing polyps as the baby has its own skeleton it hasn’t bailed persay and the mother colony is quite healthy.
The second head just detached last night so this morning I captured it and attached it to its own frag plug. At first I thought it was virtually entirely flesh and wasn’t sure how I’d attach it to a plug. Figured it would have to go into a mushroom cup, but nope it actually has a good amount of skeleton under all that flesh.
Nice and here I was wondering how the heck to ever frag these things given the robust flesh bands / little exposed skeleton.
Is this common place or unusual ?
Pictures if loaded in right order
- under moonlight - mother coral retracted for the night where you can see the two babies. The one is still attached to the mother colony with a small bit of flesh.
- mom and baby together early morning after capturing the baby and gluing its tiny skeleton to a frag plug
- about an hour later as the sun rises and the corals are waking up
- mom largely extended for the day with baby nearby
I have not seen a lot about this. I hear of fragging torches or some about torch spawning events. I guess I missed torch self-fragging. Until now I believed that to be largely a softy thing (aka Xenia)
The torch pictured here has dropped two buds, babies, heads what ever you want to call them in the last couple days. The first one is down in a crevice where I can’t really get to it without most likely harming, hence where it will stay for now. No i don’t thing this is bailing polyps as the baby has its own skeleton it hasn’t bailed persay and the mother colony is quite healthy.
The second head just detached last night so this morning I captured it and attached it to its own frag plug. At first I thought it was virtually entirely flesh and wasn’t sure how I’d attach it to a plug. Figured it would have to go into a mushroom cup, but nope it actually has a good amount of skeleton under all that flesh.
Nice and here I was wondering how the heck to ever frag these things given the robust flesh bands / little exposed skeleton.
Is this common place or unusual ?
Pictures if loaded in right order
- under moonlight - mother coral retracted for the night where you can see the two babies. The one is still attached to the mother colony with a small bit of flesh.
- mom and baby together early morning after capturing the baby and gluing its tiny skeleton to a frag plug
- about an hour later as the sun rises and the corals are waking up
- mom largely extended for the day with baby nearby
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