Ocean Mang
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I am going to use this thread to document the growth and colors of my grafted monti cap. Very curious to see how the color develops. Any suggestions?
Growth of grafted orange and green monti cap
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silver17jo
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Nice I'm tryin to accomplish the same thing right now with Idaho grape, red monti and green monti
Beach Bum 70
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Time, time , time but I will follow this to see if someone has the magic to make things grow faster !!!!
Sagz70
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Sorry to hijack your thread Ocean.. but I had a question for you guys, I have 3 frags of montis and was wondering the placement. I have 2 radions that are set to peak at 65% intensity. I also have two mp10s for flow.
My question is where should I place these caps? Can I place them all next to each other or should I place them in different parts of my tank? Also, I know a lot of people place them lower in the tank to prevent shadowing. Should they be in front of the MP10 flow or will they be fine on the bottom side, below one of the MP10s?
Thanks guys and sorry for hijacking again.
My question is where should I place these caps? Can I place them all next to each other or should I place them in different parts of my tank? Also, I know a lot of people place them lower in the tank to prevent shadowing. Should they be in front of the MP10 flow or will they be fine on the bottom side, below one of the MP10s?
Thanks guys and sorry for hijacking again.
Ocean Mang
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Not a hijack at all. That's the type of stuff I was looking for too as far as suggestions for growth pattern and such. Curious to see.
Mine have been doing well up high with high flow. I have one on the back glass and I just moved my purple cap towards the front of my tank so it won't collide with any sps frags that I had in front of it. I did this because I checked out a lot of aquascape pics and most had montis towards the front.
Ocean Mang
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I can't wait to see the stripes of the other color show up in the other monti! That's gonna be cool!
Can you describe the grafting process please? It appears that both organisms were placed upon the same platform but how did you manage a graft outside of laboratory conditions? Would it be correct to state that you fused both organisms together via an adhesive?
psusocr
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Is that piece technically "grafted" , it looks from the picture that two different color individual pieces were placed on the same disc and are growing together which wouldn't be grafting... I have a lot of caps that do this for me but they aren't really "grafting"
Maybe I just cant see the pictures clearly. My apologies if im wromg
Maybe I just cant see the pictures clearly. My apologies if im wromg
Ocean Mang
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My piece is from the WWC grafted colony. I am not sure of entirely how they did it but the two species were grafted and show each others colors when they grow.
AquamanE
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I dont see the process in Ocean Mangs frag either, and i dont know the difference between grafting and fusing, but i have seen the WWC grafted monti cap in person and the green and red are actually growing as one. Its easy to finf on google.
I think this all started with two different pieces of monti caps glued next to each other, an after some time it evolved in to one.
Jgoal55
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I did this in 2008 and the colony grew beautifully. It even survived two tank moves. Unfortunately, in early 2012 my sister-in-laws tank (the last tank it ended up in crashed) and it didn't survive that crash but this is what it was and what it became several months before the crash. 'Till this day this is the hardest loss I've had in the hobby. I miss this coral every single time I see a cap.
Before (2008):
After (2011):
Here is one that was probably in early 2008 when I first glued the frags:
Before (2008):
After (2011):
Here is one that was probably in early 2008 when I first glued the frags:
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