Go Figure

[EllieSuz]

I have two nubs of Pocillipora growing on the back glass. What's the deal with that? How did they get there? I mean, obviously they were an offshoot of a larger frag in my tank, but I can't help wonder how they attached to the glass, given the high flow in there. Should I leave them there to grow a bit? Can I scrape it off with a razor blade? Kinda cool, right?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

extremely kewl IMO.

This proves that your reef aquarium husbandry/ chemistry (etc.) must be very good. Kudos!

 

[EllieSuz]

Well, they are the offspring of a frag I got from you, Gary, so they come from good stock!

 

[Kent D.]

That is very cool Eileen!

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

Gary had one settle on a Tunze; It's a coral I tried keeping away from, because it can literally settle and spring up everywhere; a sort of gsp sps. My try to stay away was in vane: one came as a settling on a crocea from another reefer, a second which I believe has failed came as a recruit on a hammer from yet another keepers tank, and my last was a frag that was tossed in with a handful of things from Rigle. I wish other sps sexually reproduced so well.

 

[Capt_Cully]

That's very impressive!!!! Nice goin'!

 

[toddmh]

that is sweet..I bought a zoa frag once from Vivid Aquariums,after about two months I noticed a green nub growing from one side,kept getting larger in a circular growth..

Fast forward...Now I have a silver dollar sized fungia,that grew from nothing lol..Thought that was pretty cool,I know how you must be feeling getting a good hitchhiker for once lol

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

actually

actually

it's a planulae larvae from a coral I sold her that settled out on her aquarium's glass pane

 

[cardiffgiant]

That's wild. The only "coral" that I have showing up on the glass is the occasional aptasia.

I had a mysterious green acropora turn up on a piece of live rock that I had had in my system for years. It did well for a while, but died off when I had an Alk swing over the summer.

 

[aquadonkey]

Nice job Eileen!
Next comes the sun coral reproducing

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

it's my impression that Eileen has taken the ball and run with it (so to speak).

I'm going to seek your help when I tackle Tubastrea

 

[EllieSuz]

The Sun Coral has produced countless small polyps, but so far they have stayed put in the main colony and none have wandered away to affix elsewhere.

Gary, that will be the day when you need any advice from me. It has always been the other way around.

 

[eugeneK]

it must be Gary's super furtile blood line of Poci. I found a 4-5 polyp offpring on a snail shell yesterday, tried to get a pic but it came out overexposed.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

it's kewl to hear this stuff :beer: