Montipora Digitata

[Keana]

I have a couple of questions about digi's if anyone knows the answers.... Anyone seen colors other than red, orange, green, purple? I've seen reference to a peach colored one once, that would be sweet. Even better, anyone got other colors for sale? Also, do they have species recognition of other digi's? Is it possible to have different colors grow into a multi color branching beauty? I am curious to try this and I have orange, red, purple, and green....

Thanks!

Keana

[OCDP]

I have a couple of questions about digi's if anyone knows the answers.... Anyone seen colors other than red, orange, green, purple? I've seen reference to a peach colored one once, that would be sweet. Even better, anyone got other colors for sale? Also, do they have species recognition of other digi's? Is it possible to have different colors grow into a multi color branching beauty? I am curious to try this and I have orange, red, purple, and green....

Thanks!

Keana

I don't know of all the available colours, but I have seen quite a mix of digi colours. Some have a nice branch colour with a constrasting polyp colour. Very neat, ie: gold w/ green polyps, etc, etc,

I have seen blue digis also referred to as "German blue digitata" .. super nice stuff. I'd assume there's quite a few different colour variations, just not all that popular making them more "rare" . I have some pink digi that's growing well, started off as neon orange but looks like hot pink now.

Gotta love the monti's :mrgreen:

Edit: Here's a pic of the german blue digi. http://www.liveaquaria.com/images/products/large/p_89254.jpg

Check out liveaquaria.com for more monti pieces, etc. :)

[G1GY]

I don't think you can put the different colours together because they fight with one and other. (At least that's what seemed to happen when I put orange, green and purple together.)

[Chowder]

There are a few different colour combinations out htere.Superman digi is one your starting to see around in the states ,there's a green branch orange polyp one and a few other combo's out there. Never heard of people trying to fuse the colours together. Try looking on RC ,I've seen a few diferent ones posted there.

[AndyL]

Is it possible to have different colors grow into a multi color branching beauty?

Grafting of corals isn't common... Yet. However it's becoming more common of late since some accidental 'grafts' were discovered. Still not a whole lot of science to back up the process...

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/nftt/index.php

[Snappy]

I don't think you can put the different colours together because they fight with one and other. (At least that's what seemed to happen when I put orange, green and purple together.)
They do fight but can eventually end up growing together. I have them growing in and through each other and have a monti cap growing through them as seen in the cluster photo below.
I have a few colonies of digitata that have fused together to make a multicoloured stalk.
Most of this fusion occurred in hard to photograph areas but here is one very small example, notice in the middle top half of the photo the purple tip growing off of the green stalk, also notice the brown "war zone" where they fought. Unfortunately only my 20k 150's were on when I took these so sorry for the poor pictures. I took them in haste tonight when I saw this post.

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/medium/digitata_002_fused.jpg


I also have a chunk of green digitata fused onto a colony of birdsnest.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/medium/digitata_004_fusion.jpg

Here is a couple of shots of a monti/digitata cluster
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/medium/digitata_013_fusion.jpg
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/data/500/medium/digitata_010_fusion.jpg

[Keana]

Those are some great pictures... I love the colors of the purple and green.

[Keana]

Thanks for the link..
Grafting of corals isn't common... Yet. However it's becoming more common of late since some accidental 'grafts' were discovered. Still not a whole lot of science to back up the process...

http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2006-02/nftt/index.php