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JT101 · 12-25-2007, 11:02 PM

My wife bought me a beautiful leather coral for Christmas (yes, I know it's a "beginner" coral but it really is stunning looking anyway!). What I found very surprising was that after I acclimated it (I did a nice slow drip, took almost an hour, I guess I overdid it) and put it in my AquaPod 24, it fully "bloomed" in less than 30 minutes. I am used to hearing about how some corals take hours and even days to open in new tanks - I was very surprised to see this one bloom so quickly. It is doing great.

Is this a normal trait of this coral?

Also, is it possible to "frag" this thing? I don't see individual polyps. At night after all lights out, it shrinks down into a plump "hand" shape, then in the morning inflates 3x its size and has gorgeous blue-green extensions, but the whole coral seems to be one single "entity", so exactly where do you (yikes) cut it?

Thanks
John

12-25-2007, 11:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
JT101 Neon dottyback Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hicksville NY Posts: 692 View Gallery Karma Komment	Almost too good to be true? My wife bought me a beautiful leather coral for Christmas (yes, I know it's a "beginner" coral but it really is stunning looking anyway!). What I found very surprising was that after I acclimated it (I did a nice slow drip, took almost an hour, I guess I overdid it) and put it in my AquaPod 24, it fully "bloomed" in less than 30 minutes. I am used to hearing about how some corals take hours and even days to open in new tanks - I was very surprised to see this one bloom so quickly. It is doing great. Is this a normal trait of this coral? Also, is it possible to "frag" this thing? I don't see individual polyps. At night after all lights out, it shrinks down into a plump "hand" shape, then in the morning inflates 3x its size and has gorgeous blue-green extensions, but the whole coral seems to be one single "entity", so exactly where do you (yikes) cut it? Thanks John