Fungia Fragging

So basically if I break it in half, with my hand, both halfs will grow and become two? How do they naturally reproduce?
 
They naturally reproduce by dying. When they die, just leave them in your tank, eventually new buds will sprout on the skeleton. I'm not joking.
 
I've seen pictures where people look like they took a hammer to one. Then a follow up picture of the coral with a bunch of new babies growing on it.
 
I fragged my orange fungia 6+months ago. I cut it right down the middle and made sure both pieces had part of the mouth on them so they wouldn't starve. Both sides of the fungia survived, but they haven't grown into full circles yet.
 
From the reef keeping magazine, it looks like you can just cut a corner off a fungia and it will heal and the fragment will grow itself, right?
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12335529#post12335529 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by orcafood
From the reef keeping magazine, it looks like you can just cut a corner off a fungia and it will heal and the fragment will grow itself, right?
Yes, this is how we used to do it at the Tropicorium (aquaculture facility in Michigan - owned by Dick Perrin).
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12328050#post12328050 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by gws76
They naturally reproduce by dying. When they die, just leave them in your tank, eventually new buds will sprout on the skeleton. I'm not joking.

Seriously!!! I've been through 2 of these things and trashed both skeletons.

For some reason neither did well in my tank.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12343282#post12343282 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fittiger
Seriously!!! I've been through 2 of these things and trashed both skeletons.

For some reason neither did well in my tank.


Oh NO! Try it again some time, don't throw out the skeletons.:bum:

I had one that for sure looked dead (bleached, nothing but skeleton left), a freind told me to leave it and maybe it would come back or reproduce. After it came back from the dead, I asked someone, why would it do that? I was told that a piece of sand could have gotten on it and irritated it, thus causing it to expell it's zooxanthela (something like that) and collapse on itself.
 
Yeah I bought a sick orange plate and kept the skeleton after it died, it's got a whole bunch of little plates now, they are very tiny though.
 
Off subject, but just wondering if my cynarina lacrymalis dies can babies possibly form? How long until I see them if they are comming?
 
orcafood,

I'm not sure if doughnut corals do the same or not. I've never had one. Since I've never had a doughnut coral, I've never done the research on them.
 
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