Jawbreaker color change

[John3]

What if I told you these 2 pics were taken a few days apart.

 

[John3]

I’ll post up what happened tomorrow, it’s pretty interesting.

 

[John3]

Yesterday I was doing some salt creep cleanup. I knocked a salt crystal off and it landed on my jawbreaker. After cleaning I was looking things over and noticed a bright orange mucus line coming from the jawbreakers mouth. It literally expelled the zoanethella so fast it was the orange color of the shroom. I quickly blew off the salt crystal that had fallen on it. Left behind was this big purple patch. I suspect the color will come back with some time.

This got me thinking though. It seems that the purple in these shroom might actually come from a lack of zoanethella. Maybe as they age that is part of the transition.

 

[Garrett0606]

This is pretty interesting. So does that mean that some of these beautiful mushroom have in a way “been fabricated”?

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

It might be a lack of zoo, but it could also be something that's effecting the pigment being expressed. It's pretty common to see color changes in damage skin of a lot of animals, why should these be any different? As for the speed, well, these animals tear themselves in half in a matter of hours and heal, spit out their innards, shrivel to nothing and come back, etc.

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

This is pretty interesting. So does that mean that some of these beautiful mushroom have in a way “been fabricated”?

I'm sure this happens with a lot of coral. Environmental influence is what affects most changes in any animal. Direct or indirect.

 

[John3]

It’s healing up but the red underneath is still very much on the purple side. Time will tell.

 

[Garrett0606]

It’s healing up but the red underneath is still very much on the purple side. Time will tell.

keep us posted on this shroom. Any way it goes Its beautiful

 

[MixedFruitBasket]

I'm not sure how pigment works in coral. I'm assuming (and yes that's dangerous) that the actual pigment is from the tissue not from the zoo (although zoo are what fluoresce at times and make corals glow). Anyhow, if the pigment is in the tissue and works anything in coral like it does in other animals, damage or trauma can alter color expression in the healed or healing area. An example of this would be sometimes in cream colored dogs, that are genetically black but appear phenotypically cream in color, will have the hair regrowth on a scar come in as black. The genes that diluted the black making the dog cream were turned off when the area was injured.
If even the basics of color genetics is applicable to coral, then this could explain what you are seeing.

 

[Sshannon]

Any update pics?

 

[pixelhustler]

What ever happened to it?