Grafting corals

[LeighannW]

Has anyone tried to graft coral to make something unique? Give me some advice and tell me about your experience.

 

[SLUF681]

I tried grafting a tangerine monti and a green monti. No luck. I'll eventually try again though. Dapple (Darren) has a grafted pink and green birdsnest. The corals have to be VERY similar, in other words, both monti caps for example. You can't graft a monti cap and an acro.

 

[LeighannW]

I would like to try it with zoas (gloves and glasses will be worn for protection)

 

[Usctom]

I would like to try it with zoas (gloves and glasses will be worn for protection)

That can be done with Purple death and Nuclear greens. Two Face Palys. Pretty neat looking.

 

[LeighannW]

I don't have any of those but I bet it would look neat! !

 

[SLUF681]

The problem with grafting any coral is that even if it does work, you don't wind up with a new "species", you just have the one grafted coral generally. With palys/zoas, you may have 1 or 2 offspring, but eventually (and quickly) the new polyps will revert back to their original morphs. Do a little research on the World Wide Corals grafted monti that was in one of SeaWorld's tanks that appeared to have "naturally" grafted. As it turns out, it was a pigmentation problem with the coral. Pretty good read.