Very strange A.hyacinthus growth
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Well, if you were in the U.S, you could have fragged it already and be charging $450 for tiny frags of Buran's Pale Ghost..
You'd be rich!!
yeah! :lolspin:
let me try in Italy
gdemos
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Like reefmut mentioned ive certainly seen more pale quick shot growth but it is colored just pale and it sprouts quickly. Usually id see this in a shaded area or where the encrusting base finds some light or flow it likes and it rapidly sprouts there quickly and with little pigment. This seems entirely to lack pigment. My immediate thought was tissue recession but on closer look that is not at all the case. I wonder if the proximity of the mushroom has something to do with it? Beautiful piece. Keep growing!
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Piper27
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I have seen acropora corals (especially wild pieces that have been idle for a while) do this but not to this extent. And they gain color fairly quickly and you can see other pigments in the base within days of the growth. Also the new growth looks like what it normally does in captivity. This looks totally different than a. Hyanthicus. Very odd but could be exactly that.
I know mushrooms have relationships with zoanthids that provide color changes but never seen it with acros. If it was I would expect the same thing as a normal green graft.
Buran how long has the growth been there and how long has it been white? How long did it take to grow that large?
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I know mushrooms have relationships with zoanthids that provide color changes but never seen it with acros. If it was I would expect the same thing as a normal green graft.
Buran how long has the growth been there and how long has it been white? How long did it take to grow that large?
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Big E
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Maybe a couple of months at most.....it was a large branch. There was also a smaller one on the other side of the coral, but it wasn't as long.
The mushrooms may be producing some chemical warfare toward that coral and causing the zoo to expel, which was mentioned and seems logical.
I'd snip a piece it like others mentioned and see if the zoo fills back in.
The mushrooms may be producing some chemical warfare toward that coral and causing the zoo to expel, which was mentioned and seems logical.
I'd snip a piece it like others mentioned and see if the zoo fills back in.
Piper27
I love bengals
Wow, it's been growing like that since Christmas? I have never seen new growth stay white that long with so much growth. I would doubt the mushroom is causing it since it started when the mushroom wasn't there but that's just my opinion. I have seen mushrooms growing at the base of acro colonies with no problems and normally when it causes a problem it's just dies back and mushrooms encroach. But not all shrooms are the same as well. Is there any other areas on the coral where it's currently growing?
Looking forward to hearing more opinions.
Looking forward to hearing more opinions.
Ebn
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Not sure which species that is, but I experienced something similar to that in 3 of my pieces within the last 6 months. The whites would show up, usually at the base or the growing edge, and looked like recession, but it isn't. Seems like full tissue loss, but the polyps would still be there.
Wild shortcake that exhibited the condition.
Another piece, a deepwater.
I also had another piece affected, but didn't get a clean picture of it. That part was in the shade but very similar to what you're seeing.
These two pieces above are on nearly opposite sides of the tank and displayed the condition months apart. No bugs or anything when dipped and they eventually recovered. No updated pic of the shortcake, but here's the deepwater from about a week ago.
Wild shortcake that exhibited the condition.
Another piece, a deepwater.
I also had another piece affected, but didn't get a clean picture of it. That part was in the shade but very similar to what you're seeing.
These two pieces above are on nearly opposite sides of the tank and displayed the condition months apart. No bugs or anything when dipped and they eventually recovered. No updated pic of the shortcake, but here's the deepwater from about a week ago.
