Scoly recovery - fragging info potential

[rogersb]

Probably about 10 months ago I fed a warpaint scoly in my main tank and a crab (I''m assuming) tore it's oral disk apart to get the food and all that was left was the fleshy outer ring. I threw it in my sump and just pretty much forgot about it. I have frags in there and I turn the light on if I remember. About two months ago I started to notice it looked some of it was having a feeding response if I had fed the main tank. Through January I think 3 mouths(tiny) formed. Here's a pic from January 31st:
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You can see it looks like 3 parts of the scoly might be making small little scolies. Here's a pic from today:
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You can see the piece on the left has pulled away from the other piece and has started to round out. My ideas on fragging these may be that our old idea that a scoly with no mouth will die is wrong. It just needs an extreme amount of time to grow another one.

Sorry for the bad pics, I have a 4-bulb t-5 and I lean it against the tank while I take top down pics.

 

[AkoAung]

are you going to frag it? Scolies are known to make recoveries. Fragging is another thing though. I don't know if skeleton structure would grow.

 

[rogersb]

are you going to frag it? Scolies are known to make recoveries. Fragging is another thing though. I don't know if skeleton structure would grow.

Maybe I wasn't clear - I do not plan on fragging it as in cutting any of the little scolies up. I meant that if someone wanted to cut a piece off a mature scoly and give it a year to recover it might turn into a nice little baby scoly.

 

[toky916]

There is just no point of fragging them take to long to recover not like other corals.
If I was you I would cut them off the plug and place them circular epoxy so it could fourm around the slightly indented surface.

I have one that came back from just a bone fragment there was slight tissue left and now I have 2 growing the other third did not make it.

It's actually growing the skeleton but slowly compared to the tissue is about $20 coin size.

 

[rogersb]

There is just no point of fragging them take to long to recover not like other corals.
If I was you I would cut them off the plug and place them circular epoxy so it could fourm around the slightly indented surface.

I have one that came back from just a bone fragment there was slight tissue left and now I have 2 growing the other third did not make it.

It's actually growing the skeleton but slowly compared to the tissue is about $20 coin size.

I would agree that if $$$ was your motivation for propagation then there is no point in fragging this way. They're currently not on a plug but on the old skeleton. If they were on plugs I would have used epoxy to give them a nice round area to encrust over.

I want to see how they grow together. Have you seen the double or triple headed scolies that end up on ebay or on vendor sites for big money? I am beginning to think that something like this happened in the wild and they recovered, grew new multiple mouths, and what we see for sale is the result.