Tank Journal Archive

[Agent M]

This morph rock - Rhodactus sp. - got knocked over a couple of days ago, making me more suspicious that I have a new crab in the tank after finding a big piece of claw on the sand bed and a few eaten limpets recently. This Rhodactus must have gotten some damage to its foot from the fall and has decided to split. Thought I'd post the picture to show a case of 'natural division' which morphs are renowned for.

 

[Priscacara]

Great shot of them, they always amaze me how sometimes they just decide life is good at that spot and split or get a knock like yours and go for it as well :-)

 

[Sarg]

They seem to go through phases. I have the big green ones like that and they were splitting all the time but have stopped for a while. Also have the blue tonga type and I started with one and now I have three and looks like in the next few weeks maybe four! I wonder if its a size thing? Once they get fully grown out they split?

 

[holly]

Mine always split if they are large and are put under a bit of stress - changing tanks, new lighting, damaged etc. Many split when they sit on angles/slants.

 

[Agent M]

These hot pink corallimorphs are really precious to me. I waited till I had 3, coral banked one at @Morphology & finally got the balls to cut one in half tonight. Grow babies, grow!

 

[Agent M]

Decided I want more Xenia about the place, LOTS more. This one is a small growing variety. Doesn't seem to spread much unless it has something vertical to climb. Thought I'd try hacking off the polyps & covering the container with fine netting & see if they take.

Grown up

Hacked polyps, fingers crossed

 

[Sarg]

Keep us updated on the morph don't know if I'd have the guts, I just wait till they split lol

 

[Bdear22]

Morphs are pretty durable. Have one like the ones @agentm put up first, it was attached on a lampshell (bivalve) then the lampshell died and fell off the rock taking half the morph with it literally slowly tearing it apart over a week... Anyway point to the story is now have 2 morphs :rolleyes

 

[Agent M]

Keep us updated on the morph don't know if I'd have the guts, I just wait till they split lol

Its a pretty safe bet chopping up a morph, I was just being careful with these and made sure I had a backup as well. The hot pinks are pretty awesome, I started noticing them for sale occasionally last year - got them from Aquarium Excellence.

 

[holly]

Your little pink morph is tucked away in my sump :) Waiting on it to grow a little more before slice and dice!