Help me...I'm melting!!!

[wrassefan]

Candycane coral has been "melting" on the left side over the past few weeks. The rest of the colony is still polyping out. It was slightly shaded (about a third) under a ledge. Now the ledge is gone. Too much light perhaps? Should I just cut it off and "chuck it"??

 

[wrassefan]

Alittle closer

 

[dedfish]

I don't know much, but in a recent thread of mine about a green tree falling onto my torch coral...

All I can say is that if it starts to 'melt' cut off the melting parts.

 

[NanoReefer]

look up "polyp extrusion". Your candy cane may be propagating itself.
Polyp extrusion link

 

[dedfish]

Interesting. Like I said I don't know much.

 

[wrassefan]

When it propogated and spread in the past, it never looked like this. This colony started about a yr ago with 2 heads.

 

[dad300]

that looks like polyp extrustion. Search Bornemans forum on RC. It might even be a sticky.

 

[One Eye]

When it propogated and spread in the past, it never looked like this. This colony started about a yr ago with 2 heads.

I believe what you were seeing in the past was growth of the mother colony. What it's doing now is asexual reproduction. Where the flesh lands should turn into a daughter colony.

 

[NanoReefer]

There's more than one way for some corals to propagate themselves. does this sound like whats happening:
"Coral polyp extrusion is a novel form of asexual reproduction in numerous taxa of corals. It is unusual in that the polyp tissue flows out of the corallite- eventually the connection to the parent colony is severed, creating a daughter colony."

I think Eric Borneman may have an answer for you if you want to post that pic over on RC in "the Coral Forum".

 

[NanoReefer]

One Eye types faster than me. hehe

 

[clamm]

wow, thats cool that you were able to capture that!...very cool.

 

[NateHanson]

That's disgusting and I hope Congress holds an emergency session to outlaw it.
Propagation is between a coral and a coral!

 

[clamm]

it would be legal in WV!

 

[NateHanson]

Yeah, but according to most owners, they can just about anything in their VW. Something about "pure driving pleasure".

 

[One Eye]

Nate, I'm pretty sure asexual reproduction is a sin...

 

[One Eye]

That corals gonna grow hair on the palm of it's hand

 

[NanoReefer]

HaHa LOL that's funny!!!

 

[NateHanson]

And go blind too.


Wait a minute . . . Darren, it just occured to me that maybe you're due for some time in the confessional.

 

[One Eye]

I tried the confessional once....it caught on fire....

 

[NanoReefer]

ok now I got the cheesy 70's X-rated video music going in my head along with extruding polyps....it's too much I gotta get some sleep. ROLFL