Grafting a grafted monti

[o2manyfish]

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I have been growing out a few of the grafted Monti colonies for several years. My Monti mountain started as frags of Red, Grafted, Purple, Leng Sy, and an Aussie Blue rim. As the mountain has grown over the past years some plates outgrew others and now I have to trim them because there just isn't room to go further. Last year I broke out a section of grafted and through it in the outside frag tank. Well I was delighted to see that the grafted cap actually fused back into a green cap. Now a little over a year later that section has grown out and turned into a really neat piece. The photos of the double graft were shot under blue light outside. The areas that look purple are actually red. But the sections that look red are bright orange. And the stripes running up through the purple areas are gold. Really neat to see what mother nature with a touch of lazy reefer can accomplish.


Dave B

 

[Accio]

I had no idea you could graft corals!! What other corals can be grafted ontp eachother??

 

[cdejurnett]

Are you selling any?

 

[moseley75]

Beautiful!

 

[coral-boss]

very very nice

 

[o2manyfish]

Accio, There are several different grafted monti caps out there. I also have a grafted Setosa I got from a fellow reefer. It's been over a year and while it is not a solid color the setosa is now a small colony and is showing different subtle colors.

Dave B

 

[o2manyfish]

CDEjurnett,

I don't sell anything. I am a coral hoarder. I do trade with people. But I only trade with locals.

Dave B

 

[Tahoe61]

Those gorgeous, thank you for sharing.

 

[dragonfish]

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Cool stuff, Dave!