Bolivian Ram
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For all you Elegance Coral experts out there, I got a question about polyp bailout. I bought an Elegance coral about 8 months ago from a fellow reefer. It's big and being new in keeping the coral I didn't really know how a normal one is supposed to look like. A few days ago I realized it must have gone through a partial coral bailout before I purchased it. For example the skeleton has about 3 heads attached to it. The skeleton was missing 3 heads when I purchased it. But the coral has many mouths (heads?) and the flesh seems to extend far even when deflated. When inflated one of the free "heads" seems to fit perfectly on one of the bare skeleton heads. Under these "free heads" there seems to be some sort of small calcareous growth.
What I'm guessing is that the due to the elegance coral's fleshy heads being attached together when one of the heads bails out the head detaches from the skeleton but still stays attached to the fleshy portion of the main body.
What do you guys think? Do you think the "free heads" are actually bailed out heads?
What I'm guessing is that the due to the elegance coral's fleshy heads being attached together when one of the heads bails out the head detaches from the skeleton but still stays attached to the fleshy portion of the main body.
What do you guys think? Do you think the "free heads" are actually bailed out heads?
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