justincognito
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I'm wondering if anyone has had any corals in their tank fuse. I'm talking soft tissue and all and both are connected. Any with combos have that happen?
Anyone have corals fuse?
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xdusty6920
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i know randyO has some sweet pics of his echinos fused together. i personally have never had anything fuse together. usually any corals that get that close blast each other before they could fuse lol
justincognito
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Totally rad. What is the history on it. Was it glued together or from the wild. Who what when where why?
wentreefgirl
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How come I cant see the pics. Would love to see the pics. I was just going to post about echinos fusing to rock and how to release them.
RandyO
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I keep most of my Echinos on the bottom of my tank, all together. When I make frags, they all have to fight for space on the bottom, and after a few days, if they are touching each other where they were just cut, they start to attach to each other. I usually have to break them up after a while. Those two must have attached while I wasn't paying attention, because when I went to separate them, they were fused together. It happened about a year ago. It would have been cool if my green attached to a pink. They don't seem to grab at each other like these two or two of the same color morph.
To give you an idea of what this tank looks like, here's a picture from December 2005.
wentreefgirl
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I believe I have a few of yours. I buy from kmagyar. Is this one of yours. Actually, the pink one is the one that is fused to the rock.
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/wentreefgirl/Picture884411953.jpg">
<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v298/wentreefgirl/Picture884411953.jpg">
RandyO
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Yup, those came from me. Keith and I are good friends, so he has a lot of my corals.
I don't let my Echinos attach to the rock. It makes it harder to frag them. When they do attach, I just pull them off. But be careful. If they are on there good, you want to have a razor blade handy. I pulled my Green colony off the rock once, and didn't realize it was that attached. As I pulled it off, part of the skeleton was fused into the rock, which just snapped, which was what I wanted. But the flesh was still attached to the skeleton fused to the rock, and started to tear up the colony, like a sheet of paper. It left a big bare spot on my colony, and that's when you can have problems with algae getting on exposed skeleton. The loose flapping flesh was also no good, since it would just die without a skeleton to live on. If I had a razor blade in my hand, I could have cut the flesh instead of hoping it would snap any second.
wentreefgirl
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What about diplo. Does it do that too. Any pics?
xdusty6920
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did anyone ever try this with a lord? i remember a while ago somone was talking about it in a thread. try to take two lord morphs, cut each one in half, and then force contact between the two freshly cut sides. i personally thought it would cause the two sides to simply grow into two new heads and they would somehow know that they werent ment to grow together.
wentreefgirl
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Dont know but sounds very cool.
mschriskim
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Dusty, I think same way Acan Lord would grow 2 seperate polyps not fused but I have feeling Acan Echinata might fuse.... hmmm interasting taught : )
justincognito
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I've grafted lords together. Some are still at the shop i used to work at. I saw no obvious fusing last time i saw them but it seems the underside tissue fuses the most readily. New polyps growing from these margins would have the potential for fusion.
I've written a few article on fusion and the echino's grafting support my findings with long term care and fusion.
I've written a few article on fusion and the echino's grafting support my findings with long term care and fusion.
shane 1111
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this is cool i am going to try it
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