Purple Death/ Nuclear Green Morth

Dace · Dec 27, 2008

About 4 months ago i was bored so i decided to take 1 polyp of each and cut them in half and glue both sides together leaving me with 2 polyps of purple/green polyps on a disc. One of the polyps died right away as the other did good for about a week then the nuclear green side died but the purple side continued to grow and became a colony in time. Yesterday i was doing some work on my tank and said, holy ****, and this is what i saw. Tell me you ever seen it like this. Polyp split right in half.

My Baby

Hobby

Dace · Dec 27, 2008

How I did It:
I used IC Glue, It took me some time. I was lucky that the stalk of the polyps was pretty big which made it alittle better then if it was a small polyp.

ReefRunner · Dec 27, 2008

That is wild. I may have to try that

Azurel · Dec 27, 2008

That's really cool.....I suppose when the Nuc was glued to it they shared some zooxanthellae and it didn't show up till the polyp healed fully.....That is really cool. I might have to try that some time as well.....I wonder if the new polyps that come off that will look like that. Keep us updated on any new polyps and how they look...

WWC · Dec 27, 2008

Simply amazing !

reefermadness · Dec 27, 2008

Its alive............."ALIVE!":xd:

JuniorMC8704 · Dec 27, 2008

i have a whole new motivation for 2009 now.

cross morphing EVERYTHING i can...

AWESOME work man!

bamachamp92 · Dec 27, 2008

If you can grow those polyps they should be called Splash of Lime.

JuniorMC8704 · Dec 27, 2008

corona palys

softiegirl · Dec 27, 2008

Crazy!! kinda like microsurgery to get those glued together tho..... I cant barely even hang on to a single polyp to get it glued down! lol... but i will consider trying this! :music:

ss7 · Dec 27, 2008

wonder what that would sell for on ebay? ;-)

FateX8 · Dec 27, 2008

........whoa

revhtree · Dec 27, 2008

Awesome thread! Thanks for sharing it with us!

eagleeyez5 · Dec 27, 2008

That is crazy....I would call it the Original Mad Scientist Paly

flricordia · Dec 27, 2008

Purple Nukes

Dace · Dec 27, 2008

wow, thank you all for your interest. I had someone from RC (hope it's OK to use this Site) come over to my house on Xmas day to verify it's a true polyps since some ppl were PMing me asking if it was photoshopped together. The guy was really nice and updated my thread over there with his own pic he took himself. This has really brought lots of interest into trying to make new original polyps and I wish all of you that take the time to try it as much success as i had.
Thanks again for all you kind words.