Mixing Montipora

[kaiserkid]

I have heard from a LFS that you can set frags of different species of montipora on each other and they will either grow and spiral around eachother or they will fuse and make a mixed hybrid kind of monti with both colors. Either of these outcomes would be awesome. :eek2:

So my question is, has anyone actually done this? If so please post some pics!

 

[fishview]

Check out this thread: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1359203&perpage=25&pagenumber=4

 

[crsaz]

yup it can be done, usually one color over takes the others, in my experience orange grows faster, but every tank is different so your experience may vary.

 

[kaiserkid]

Check out this thread: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=1359203&perpage=25&pagenumber=4

Thank you! That is so cool! :thumbsup: I have got to try that!

 

[olliefb]

I placed a green hi lighter cap, orange cap and a green cap side by side. the green cap grew twice as fast as the 2 and tried to block them from getting light. the hi lighter ended up being shaded by the two..

 

[disturbed]

looks kool

 

[Eastside S-13s]

wow thats crazy!

 

[Algae Growwer]

Nice mix and match:fish1:

 

[potterjon]

checkerboard monti eh?

 

[jerl77]

damm cutting mine as we type

 

[axia55]

damm cutting mine as we type

That CANNOT be good for your computer! :lmao:

 

[gophilau]

It's amazing
I tought we can no match the sps, because they gonna bleach !!!!

Marc

 

[reefkeeperaxm]

Wow I didn't know that! That pic is just wicked, how did it ever take perfect geometric shapes like that?

 

[blakemiller1981]

dang that looks crazy im sure alot of people will try this

 

[crsaz]

Im going do just the outer rim of the disk and the a solid color in the center. probably alternating green,red and purple rim with idaho grape for the center.

 

[gophilau]

It's shure I will try this with purple and orange monti

Marc

 

[timmyb770]

Yea its actually pretty cool to be able to mix the colors togeather, i have a couple monties growing as one haha

 

[sc reefer]

If anyone makes some 'super sunset' monti that would go on the epic wall of fame for corals as far as im concerned!!!

 

[Bill@IA]

Mixing Monti

Mixing Monti

As of today"¦"¦

An Ultra M. danae I got from dvanacker intertwined with a M. palawanensis picked up from Bela.

 

[kjamaya]

I've tried tyree flower petal and strawberry field monti on a plug before. Had them under t5's and the flower petal dominated and killed the strawberry. Now that I am using halides I will try it again and see what happens.