Fungia Trilogy Complete

[Nano_Steve]

well, i just got back from aquatek where i got pretty lucky, they just got in a neon green fungia about 3-4" in diameter and i was able to trade in a couple of corals and get it :D so now ive got an orange, pure purple, and a neon green! totally happy i was able to find another one.

im going to have a small collection of these in the 7 since it looks like i will have lots of sandbed since i cant find a rock that is big enough to fill the tank.

does anyone here know or have any other colormorphs of these awesome corals? i hope to start a propatation of them once they start budding or splitting.

-steve

ps ill try to snap some photos soon.

[pilot_bell777]

I have a green too and they are awsome.....real hard but yet fluid, weird! You can feed them in their little mouth on top, as for splitting, not sure...had mine for about a month and a half and it has grown but has not split.

Check this one out....


http://www.vividaquariums.com/10Expand.asp?ProductCode=02-1645

[BA]

i've seen pink ones, but prob pretty close to the orange ones

[GaryP]

I think propagating them would probably require a hammer and chisel. That would probably not be very effective since they get nfected easily when handled roughly.

Gary

[Nano_Steve]

yikes gary! i wouldnt dream about smashing one of these gorgeous animals up like that. ive heard a few success stories where one is accidently smashed by a rock(in my case thats how i got the purple one) but i would much rather let them do their own natural way of reproduction.

pilot-bell, that ones pretty neat lookin. i think my green one might look like that if i took a pic with the flash on but with it just sitting under my 20k mh its glowing green! its really rad lookin.

bobby, the purple one i have most would prob say its pink(i guess i can have a slight colorblindness when it comes to those two colors) but ive seen on that has a purple rim with a green center!!! im wondering if anyone in the club has photos of anything like what ive heard about?

-steve

[pilot_bell777]

I don't know if it would look like that or not......mine is green with purple tentecles..
(If God had wanted me to spell he won't have inveted spell checker, to bad I dont' use it heheh)
That one in the pic has a green rim with green tenticles.......

Ya, they REALY glow under nothing but antinic.....AWSOME coral...I love mine.

[GaryP]

I've had a long tentacle plate for several years and have never noticed it bud or make any other attempt at reproducing. Its now pretty huge, about 8" across. Bornemann claims they can be fragged by splitting them, but as I said earlier, they are suseptible to infection from rough handling and I would never try it.

BTW, there is a red species that I have seen a pic of. Its Fungia klunzingeri from New Guinea. I'm not sure if its commercially available.

Gary

[ratboy]

I have a bright green fungia and 2 reproducing colonies. One is a pink/purple fungia that was in my office tank when the AC was left off for a weekend. The heat pretty much killed it but after several months i noticed buds. Now there are ~ 25 mini plates covering the old skeleton from 5mm - 25mm expanded. Ive broken off some of the larger ones but the skeleton is still too small (~5mm) and the coral gets blown away. I also have a green/peach colony that was a skeleton in a tank I bought (LR). I threw it into my live rock system and noticed buds on it over time as well.
Here is a pic of my purple colony and my green fungia. The lights just came on so the polyps arent fully inflated. I get another pic and one of the green/peach later.

=Erik

[GaryP]

Many corals react to stress by reproducing. It seems like they put their last remaining energy into creating daughter colonies.
I moved my tanks 3 times in 13 months. Every time I did, my anemones would split. I was flooded with anemones.

Gary

[StephenA]

I've had this guy for about 5 months. He's grown about 10mm or more. He loves it when I shut off the pumps and put in cyclop-eez.

[RobertG]

Is this a reef we are talking about? LOL Budding, Propogation, & spliting, Hymm. Sounds like something outta H times. I'll take one of the ones that has budded. :-D

[::pete::]

does anyone here know or have any other colormorphs of these awesome corals? i hope to start a propatation of them once they start budding or splitting.-steve
Here is a link (http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=413134) for you.

[StephenA]

So who's going to try it first?