Do blastos, acans and other similar LPS coral encrust?
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Blastos merletti and sun coral will do - only feed them.
If you place candycane or frogspawn (or hammer) near the end of the branch, they will grow and create the nice covering for this end, not encrusting.
In the same light, that blastos merletti grow well, will grow montipora (sps), surely encrusting and grows fast.
HTH
If you place candycane or frogspawn (or hammer) near the end of the branch, they will grow and create the nice covering for this end, not encrusting.
In the same light, that blastos merletti grow well, will grow montipora (sps), surely encrusting and grows fast.
HTH
vegaskid11
vegasreefers.com
Acans will eventually form there own skeleton but will also encrust rocks. They multiply faster when on a flatter surface as it is easier for them to build there sub skelton. I just recently was able to get a small colony of acans to attach to a cool piece of tanga branch.
I learned the encrusting info from jendub. Search her website and you will find it. Good luck.
Because the colony I had was already rounded, I just put the colony on the tonga branch in the corner of my frag crate so it was blocked from falling by the glass in the back and surrounded it with small rubble to prevent it from falling to the egg crate around the front. It attached in a about a week. If you feed it some mysis it will attached twice as fast.
:rollface:
I learned the encrusting info from jendub. Search her website and you will find it. Good luck.
Because the colony I had was already rounded, I just put the colony on the tonga branch in the corner of my frag crate so it was blocked from falling by the glass in the back and surrounded it with small rubble to prevent it from falling to the egg crate around the front. It attached in a about a week. If you feed it some mysis it will attached twice as fast.
:rollface:
vegaskid11
vegasreefers.com
Your post is hard to follow and I am not sure accurate about candycanes or frogspawn as they only grow by dividing their heads and building skelton from their. I have never had loose polyps re-attach and grow. All of the acan or trumpets or euphylias that I have had polyps fall off of never made it.
They may grow by sexual reproduction but that has yet to appen I know of in an aquarium. If you have experienced other please share.
And I flattered myself, that I managed to master the basic English 
Appears to be not so
Blasto merletti and sun coral, grow skin-like tissue at the perimeter, covering the available surface, then grow skeleton. At least, these, that I have, did that.
My candies and frogspawn grow just like you said - and I didn't say a word about polyps bail-out or sexual reproduction of them :rolleye1: .
Hammer grows the 2 new heads now by budding below the main head.
When placed on the peak or end of the rock branch, they grow new heads, in not encrusting way, but the end of the rock will be covered anyway - by the "hat" of the heads.
Sorry, did my best :wavehand:
Appears to be not so
Blasto merletti and sun coral, grow skin-like tissue at the perimeter, covering the available surface, then grow skeleton. At least, these, that I have, did that.
My candies and frogspawn grow just like you said - and I didn't say a word about polyps bail-out or sexual reproduction of them :rolleye1: .
Hammer grows the 2 new heads now by budding below the main head.
When placed on the peak or end of the rock branch, they grow new heads, in not encrusting way, but the end of the rock will be covered anyway - by the "hat" of the heads.
Sorry, did my best :wavehand:
vegaskid11
vegasreefers.com
I just misunderstood you. sorry bud.
