orange suncoral babies white?

[Qckwzrd]

ok as most of the guys/gals the frequent the suncoral/dendro posts know that a few months ago I had a disaster with most of my suncorals I have about two left from my old batch. One that I have all the main polys died off but then I seen some small white polyps start to form around the skeleton of the dead polyps. I've had black and orange suncorals reproduce in my tank and they seem to start off clear then turn the respective colors (orange, black or yellow) but these I've had for over a month and they are staying white and growing. anyone ever had this happen before?

w/actinics

w/o any tank lights, just a white LED flashed on it

recent w/tank lights on

 

[Qckwzrd]

one more next to dendros

 

[Echidna09]

I don't know... Those are cool though.

 

[Qckwzrd]

thanx, sorry about the XXL pic guy

 

[mikekman]

Looks cool! I'd give it a few more months though, you never know they might turn back to their original color.

 

["Umm fish?"]

That's crazy. I've never seen tubastrea come back from tissue. And to be a different color?

My orange tubastrea recruits start off with more orange than that and those are pretty large. This one below is pretty much pre-skeleton.

 

[mikekman]

Umm fish, nice baby sun coral. I have a baby that looks just like that. It was a hitchhiker on some rock and it was small like a tiny bb bullet.

 

[ex82nd]

I have a few that are the same.Super Nice

 

["Umm fish?"]

That one didn't survive, unfortunately. It settled in the light and some bubble algae killed it. Evil stuff. But I have others that settled that have multiple polyps now.

Good luck with your babies.

But the real issue is: What the heck does Qckwzrd have going on?

 

[Qckwzrd]

I have a couple of black suncoral babies in my fuge like yours Umm Fish.

Well I hope they stay white and get large. I fed them some chopped up shrimp lastnight and they ate like crazy. I did a 50% water change today and they opened nicely. The babies look like the last pic Chelsey showed in her post.

 

[Qckwzrd]

no one ever seen this before? does anyone HAVE white suncorals at all?

 

[mikekman]

Hey Qckwzrd, I have pictures of white suncorals saved on my computer if that counts :-D :-D haha

Keep showing us progress pics of the suncorals everyweek!

 

[Qckwzrd]

lol@Mike.. I'll post progress. I posted on another site and somone just figured its a morph from the tissue recession of the parents.