Scoly Graft Update...Success???

[uniquecorals]

Hey Everyone,

When we last left off, we were still waiting to see if any of the graft attempts that I did with Justin from ReefGen during his October visit to UC took. Well, after several months and a lot of careful observation, I think we are looking at a success!

This is a "Bleeding Apple"/"Warpaint" graft attempt. At first, it looked like the two corals were simply healing separately, with no apparent tissue "sharing.". However, after a few more months, we now see that the center area of the "Warpaint" morph appears to have healed up with some "Bleeding Apple" coloration and vice-versa...We had to look at this a lot of different times from a lot of different angles to confirm this; we think it took...you can certainly judge for yourself, but I'd venture to say that we might have a successful "graft."

Thought you might enjoy seeing this...

Scott Fellman
Unique Corals

 

[Rozdab]

Wow!!!

Would love to see it/them eat.

Cha ching

 

[Pmark]

Looks like it's grafted well. Not sure if you have tried but if both sides are puffed up and you touch one side, does the other side retract? Would that be an indication of shared tissues?

 

[uniquecorals]

Looks like it's grafted well. Not sure if you have tried but if both sides are puffed up and you touch one side, does the other side retract? Would that be an indication of shared tissues?

That's a great question...Haven't tried doing that. I suppose it would be some indication of shared tissues, or perhaps shared anatomical homogeneity...Dang, may have to leave that one for the scientists!

 

[flowflezy]

very cool man.

 

[PaulKreider]

Does it share a mouth?

 

[Rocky Mountain Frags]

Really cool! Well done, guys!!

 

[ReefMadScientist]

Very cool but that still looks like two scoly's lol.

 

[uniquecorals]

Does it share a mouth?

Good question..no it doesn't...As far as we can tell!

-Scott

 

[uniquecorals]

Very cool but that still looks like two scoly's lol.

It does, but it's sharing some tissue..hard to explain; probably should get more pics up...very interesting piece, though.

-Scott

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Awesome stuff, Scott!

 

[Acrononomus]

That's awesome! I'd have to say tho it may have to share a mouth, I'm not much into scolys more sps here, so I'm not sure if they can have more than one mouth , but that is definitely unique !

 

[Eienna]

Looking forward to the next update!

 

[Railcar79]

Just shut up and take my money. PM for the delivery address...lol

 

[halophila]

Artificial chimera!:xd:

 

[TarHeelReefer22]

Blowing my mind please keep this going and put updates up

 

[uniquecorals]

From Justin Credabel:

"Usually the first step in fusion of soft tissue of hard coral is a swap in pigmentation, possibly from Thraustochytrids, or the neighboring coral picking up zooxanthellae and producing pigments to make the new clade they now harbor happy. I see green pigment from the green apple in the war paint side."

-Sounds like we have a graft coming along...

 

[TarHeelReefer22]

Updated pic?