Super tiny firework clove far from other polyps.

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I have a small cluster of firework cloves that have been growing really well. Today i noticed a super tiny clove growing from a separate area of the rock. How does this happen and how do cloves spread? Do other corals spread this way? Thank you in advance.

 

[shwareefer]

*in Jeff Goldblum's voice* "Nature finds a way".

Make sure it's not an aiptasia tricking you.

 

[F i s h y]

The base tissue encrusts over, or in some cases with porous rock, through and sprouts new polyps along the way...