Leather Coral Splitting

[cbbram]

I have a leather (toadstool) coral that is splitting (tearing) in half. Last week it was one side now it's the other side. It's splitting sorta like a bta anemone. It's surrounded by mushroom corals so maybe that's the reason, or is this a way it reproduces? Anyone experienced with this?

 

[Khemul]

What type of leather?

Some of them do reproduce like that.

 

[smtank]

They can reproduce that way, they develop necrotic areas that eventually fall away from the mother coral and grow independently.

 

[cbbram]

Not sure what kind... You can kind of see it in this pic. Didn't think to go around to the other side. I was actually just testing out my new camera on my phone.

 

[cbbram]

I will take a pic of the coral tonight... It's definitely splitting almost done. It's cool I will have 2 now

 

[cbbram]

 

[smtank]

Huston we have a problem, it involves images.

 

[cbbram]

Here's a couple pics I took this morning with lights off.

 

[cbbram]

Definitely splitting...

 

[smtank]

You're just teasing me right? Maybe it's just me but there are no images on this thread.

 

[markalot]

Copy and paste the links. Let me see if this works.

Looks healthy to me, just doing the splits.

 

[cbbram]

Thanks for your input... I can see all the images fine

 

[cbbram]

Split complete

 

[Josh40996]

Oh that's cool, I've seen toadstools and other leathers "walking" and leaving frags behind but I didn't know they can split. Again, that's cool.

Your images just appear as links.