Monti & Acro battle it out....

[meschaefer]

the Acro wins?

I came home from work tonight and noticed that an acro frag had come loose and fell onto my orange monti cap. I put the acro frag back, and it looks good, but the monti looks like it has some receeding tissue where the acro had landed.

Any suggestions?

 

[prodman]

The monti always loses. It will most likley recover in time.

 

[meschaefer]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7401973#post7401973 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by prodman
It will most likley recover in time.

Glad to hear it. That acro is getting a some extra epoxy.

Thanks.

 

[GatorReefman]

Be careful with the montipora. I had an red frag of an montipora plate accidently fall into my hydrophora. A few days later, it first got jelly and then completely rtned. I would trim off the damaged portion and hope for the best. Don't wait like I did and lose the entire frag. It was a new frag and was showing some growth but I had not glued it down. So I was very disappointed in losing it. My hydrophora is doing great- he wasn't fazed a bit.

 

[twon8]

a hyndnophora would be expected to kill a monti, they are the most aggresive coral imo. ive had montis and acros tangle, the monti's always lose, but they also always recover and regrow over the dead part.

 

[meschaefer]

It would be very hard to frag the monti. As the damaged portion is in the very center of the frag. If the damage was one of the edges I would frag it, but since it is in the center, wait and see.

The are two peices to the colony, without damge to the other peice, I will watch the damaged frag and see how it does.