Fungia Baby sprout?

[Friday Night]

My red fungia that a baby hanging off her?
TIA

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[kingfisher62]

Looks like it! Let it be and it will eventually pop off on it's own.

 

[Friday Night]

Looks like it! Let it be and it will eventually pop off on it's own.

Thanks bud. Yea i was doing a water change the other day did a double take and was like sweet mary your going on the rack till you give birth.

TIA King. :beer:

BTW i have a skeleton of a dead fungia i found at my lfs they gave it to me for free. I was thinking as you can see in my pic my fungia is a half. Cut the skeleton in half and glue a dead half to my live half. Thoughts?

 

[kingfisher62]

If your lucky that dead skeleton might sprout some babies. That is if they were kept in water and there is some sort of tissue left.
Why bother gluing the the dead half and a live half together? Corals are capable of regeneration . See where it goes.

 

[Friday Night]

I doubt it king the skelly i got for free was sitting in the boneyard tub dried out for months. But anyevent glue a dead half to a live half it gives my red plate more realstate to grow on.

I dont see it growing down the rock and incrusting like a monti but i could be wrong.

Thanks.

 

[kingfisher62]

I never had a fungia but I do not think they will encrust over rock or skeleton. I do believe it will regenerate in a fashion that it will eventually become round again.
This is only speculation on my behalf and I also may be wrong.
Maybe someone else can chime in that knows more than us about these corals!

 

[Friday Night]

Yea i mean i can see her regenrate new tissue but a new skeleton? to become whole again?..

TIA King :smokin:

Anemone
Nanook
Roklem

Chime in guys...... :beer:

 

[Friday Night]

While we wait King...

Pic of her roomate. :smokin:

 

[kingfisher62]

Thats a nice looking one.

 

[Friday Night]

Thx. I run a BB tank so no sand for her to attach to. Going to be upgrading at the end of the month.

Pic of my old RP.. She was a knockout as well. :sad1:

 

[kingfisher62]

Yea i mean i can see her regenrate new tissue but a new skeleton? to become whole again?..

TIA King :smokin:

Anemone
Nanook
Roklem

Chime in guys...... :beer:

Hey, if it regenerates tissue it can regenerate the skeletons. It might take years but I really think it could become round again or atleast roundlike!
Again , pure speculation on my part.

I recently read a thread on this site about a hammer corals heads falling off the skeleton and they grew there skeletons back.

 

[kingfisher62]

Thx. I run a BB tank so no sand for her to attach to. Going to be upgrading at the end of the month.

Pic of my old RP.. She was a knockout as well. :sad1:

Hold on, your saying fungias can attach to sand or rocks.
I did not know that.

I heard they can move about and sting the heck out of other corals. Is that true?

 

[Friday Night]

Good looking out King Thx bro :beer:

Yea if you read as well as look at systems most fungia will be placed on the sand gravel or some sort of rockwork. To give the coral some sort of traction. I put my plates on my BB they fly around like a frisbee. They "hop" like clams i have seen it and depending on if its a short tenticle or long your right it will sting other corals in its reach.

Its weird i get more inflation at night then during the day from the red. The sunrise i get it all day and all night. At night the red will puff up the size of a baseball

 

[kingfisher62]

Found these threads. They seem to think they will become round again but I do not see any pics of follow ups.
I would like to see that.

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=818287&highlight=fungia+regenerate

http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1630583&highlight=fungia+regenerate

 

[Friday Night]

Notes: The Orange Plate Coral lives a solitary life atop the sand bed. It requires low to moderate water currents and moderate reef lighting for proper health. It is important that proper calcium and alkalinity levels are maintained. Use of Kalkwasser Mix or a calcium reactor will be of great benefit.

Place the Orange Plate Coral on the sand bed along the bottom of the aquarium. Be careful when handling it to avoid damaging the delicate tissue on the underside. It does have short tentacles that can sting nearby corals so leave several inches between it and its neighbors. Be aware that it can move across the sand bed slowly.

Supplementing its diet with the addition of trace elements, marine snow, phytoplankton, and food for filter feeders will help to insure its continued good health. Try feeding it small pieces of squid or shrimp once a week by placing a piece on the mouth in the center of the coral.

 

[kingfisher62]

Either way, I would love to get one but I am very low on beach front property in both my tanks. Maybe I can find a small one!

 

[Friday Night]

Either way, I would love to get one but I am very low on beach front property in both my tanks. Maybe I can find a small one!

lol... ill have to remember that one.. Yea ill let you know about the baby "hint hint" :eek2:

 

[Friday Night]

So about 6 months later momma gave birth and here she is sitting next to momma:love2:

Before birth

New born.

 

[kingfisher62]

Sweet! Good to see it doing so well .
Do you have any full shots of the mother?
I want to see how it regenerated.