ever seen one do this

[bigkai]

my trumpet coral is groing to fast i thank should i stop feeding it?

 

[m'akoyPINOY]

it's dropping babies!!one of our local reefer have the same thing happen to his trumpets!

 

[Blackhawk Fan]

Never seen that happen before. Did the new heads grow out and form like that or merge together after they grew out?

 

[ReeferRob]

Wow great pic, I have seen that before in brains and elegance but not a trumpet.

 

[bigkai]

an update its all most droped

 

[BlazinNano]

its a little coral waterfall.....lol
No that is weird, I would have freaked out if I saw that.

 

[Alpha Aquaculture]

i have seen this before in a trumpet i had that was hanging from some fishing string. it grew so big that it came close to some other corals and i believe the dripping occured due to interactions between corals. i can't remember what corals were near the trumpet tho

what corals are near it?

 

[150er]

wow. this is the first time I see this.

 

[wicked demon]

a-sexual reproduction, my acans and favias do that occationaly

 

[Alpha Aquaculture]

Ok so I have done some diggin and have found my old pics. I remember now that the hanging trumpet was moved closer to that slimer acro. When I got that trumpet it was the size of a matchhead and that slimer was pinkie size... awww the memories... wait not so good now remember my hair algae probs with that 10 gallon!!!

 

[inactive]

I've had that happen to acan lords and blastos... very wierd.

 

[amore169]

That reminds me about a zombie movie a watched where people would melt like that.

 

[dtpollard]

I have had this happen several times with my Trumpet. The skeleton gets bumped and breaks inside the polyp. The soft tissue continues to grow but is weighted down by the broken skeleton inside, giving it the strech appearance. I cut the tissue with scissors and removed the broken piece and the Trumpet will heal back to normal.

 

[dtpollard]

oh, and yes growing fast makes the skeleton softer and easier to break, so that does have something to do with it as well.

 

[Alpha Aquaculture]

interesting insight, that makes a lot of sense, i might have bumped mine when i moved it... i just remember thinking when it happened that it looked like my trumpet and acro were fighting but i guess they coulda just been close together

i agree that they are isolated broken calcium deposits and it totally makes sense that they could be formed initially through damage but do you think there could be any other cause for this (like the chemical warefare thing or maybe light)?

 

[acronautical]

Interesting...and kind of gross at the same time!

 

[bigkai]

that does make sense i glued it to that rock and it may have got bumped when i was trying to get it to stay on their so should i let it go as is or cut it off?