Two different color monti caps growing together how common? Pics

[Joe Kelley]

Emster,
this is very interesting and please keep updating this thread. It looks as it zooanthanthelle have recruited from peach to green. Hard to say what will happen.
From day to day does that area opposite the original meeting change?

All beautiful corals by everyone and a fine idea to group them if all is happy.

Joe

 

[Emster]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12777333#post12777333 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Joe Kelley
Emster,
this is very interesting and please keep updating this thread. It looks as it zooanthanthelle have recruited from peach to green. Hard to say what will happen.
From day to day does that area opposite the original meeting change?

All beautiful corals by everyone and a fine idea to group them if all is happy.

Joe

Well to tell you the truth I'm not sure about it changing from day to day, I just noticed the color changing when I took the pics.

r2odie- yes super glue gel

 

[Mik_101]

Unreal that looks so nice.

 

[Neptune777]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12230945#post12230945 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Emster
Thanks for the replies guys! Trying to get all the info I can on this subject.

Chris- Thats a cool pic. Where they were touching was there a white dead area? My other caps and encrusting montis kill each other and one usually over takes the other. My sunset kills my pokerstar and my rainbow kills my superman. That green and orange cap in your pic could very well be the two that I'm growing. I know you bought some cap frags from me before.

I'm going to try and grow my purple rim green cap into these frags and see what happens, also might try a purple cap too. Here are some pics of some frag I cut up last night, can't wait to see what these grow into....

Looks really nice! I may have to try this sometime!

 

[chaderic26]

Sweet!

 

[kvosstra]

My superman and Pokerstar tried this experiment on their own in my tank, but both end up getting burned. But these look great. I assume that they are the same coral species, so there is tolerance, whereas the superman and Pokerstar are too far removed from eachother and thus fight.

great Idea - I'm going to try this with a Idaho Grape and orange cap. Ill post some pics if it works.

-Kyle

 

[cato]

Yep, awesome!

 

[danfrith]

Amazing, would this be considered grafting yet?

 

[spsfreak]

Here is my contribution, this was from my old 65g mixed reef.

 

[Aj Flip]

update on this one? starting to look real cool

 

[Amphiprion]

The only problem I have with these is that, although it can take a long time, one of them will outcompete the other. One of Montipora's main advantages on the reef is growth and shading, so I can't imagine it is much different between two congeners.

 

[spsfreak]

Nope your right, they will not fight one another, however they will act just as a "single" monti will in that eventually certain layers start to die off due to shadowing and the like. So one will eventually have less than the other due to growth patterns. Having said that, if both have a similar growth rate and grow circular, in theory they will always be close to the same on the very top of the coral.

 

[AudioAdict]

My friends' caps.
R.I.P. : (

 

[EBOLII]

his system or friend?

 

[IFbettas]

These are really cool. I think I'm going to try it out some day.

 

[TomRep]

In this pic, look at the bottom, almost center small orange piece. Is that a green polyp on the orange piece??
tom

 

[mflamb]

Looks that way to me.

 

[Emster]

Yes that is a green polyp and all around it is orange.

I have been trying to find other colors that will get along together. In this pic you can see the orange cap is starting to kill the purple cap, it wont be to much longer till the purple and green start touching....

and in this pic the orange cap is starting to kill the purple rim green cap(left) and the green cap (right).....

 

[stunreefer]

Very interesting! Awesome thread/idea Emster!

The green polyp on orange monti is just outlandish. I wonder if that would reproduce like that (ornage w/ green polyps) if you eventually fragged that little piece off?

Only time will tell with this project, and I'll keep an eye on this thread!

 

[truthdesigns]

That is soo cool!!!
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