Cross Hybridization of tissue / color changing coral!

[jonnybravo22]

hello all. so curious thing happened. my plum crazy coral is kind of turning green in some places. anyone ever seen hybridization of pigment from other corals that are not even close to touching??

the only thing i've added is a green monti w/ red polyps.
also have a borealis (which has green tissue but a deeper green than the new growth on the plum crazy) and a joe the coral that has a similarly florescent green. but the joe and the borealis have been in there since the beginning w/ the plum crazy so dont think those two are causing this. i havent known plum crazy to ever have green tissue, particularly on new growth?

the green is appearing only in the new growth areas on the plum crazy -- around the rim where it is expanding and some on the tips where the coral is expanding. i think what's happening is that the monti, which is also growing / expanding after fragging, is somehow able to attach it's issue through the water column, on any new growth area of coral tissue....???

may be hard to tell but can you see what i mean?

importantly it's just on the new growth so i think that (in very unscientific terms) the coral is laying down "new growth potential tissue" and it's totally open to "colonization" but since the green monti is in "rapid tissue cover" mode, somehow it's spitting out it's tissue colonizing juice and that's landing on the plum crazy.

is that just plum crazy?!

 

[Scott-CapeCoral]

That last paragraph was hysterical man!!! Thank you for that haha!!



I noticed some of my blue acros develop some green in the base, and new growth tips when I switched to 250w radium's.

 

[allsps40]

No corals dont share the color with near by corals. The change is color is new growth or from new or different lights.

 

[pimp2daizzo]

lol i like your wording

 

[jonnybravo22]

glad ppl enjoy my rant.

do you really think lighting changes a plum crazy to bright florescent green only on the new growth? also lighting hasnt changed in months. AI LED fixtures. the only thing that's changed is intensity, but i really dont think that has anything to do with the neon green appearing on the coral a couple of weeks after introducing the monti.

 

[twelvejewelz]

I read an article about corals taking in different kinds or zoox from other corals to help them to adapt to environmental changes. Let me try and find it.

 

[Frick]

I think you are referring to coral "grafting". Steve Garrett is known to have acros do this often. From what I understand a spawning coral in a crowded sps tank will release eggs and/or sperm and it will get caught by other polyps. After a while the polyp will grow the color of the caught egg/sperm. It will not look as new growth though, just a new branch. I am certian your acro is just adapting. I have seen many of my new frags grow very different growth in their new home.

 

[saltygeek]

I've noticed some acros have a greenish/blueish growth edge even though the "normal" color is something else. It will likely change over as it continues to grow. Unless it is grafting which is rare and wouldnt just happen on new growth as far as I know.

 

[RRaider]

My plum crazy gets bright green tips on new growth areas as well. Has nothing to do with your monti.