Random experiment. Totally amazing results

jason604 · #1 01-25-2014, 09:58 PM

About 2 months ago while fragging my fully purple acro and my
Hulk green acro I accidental broke of a few tiny tiny polyp pieces from each and I only had 1 frag plug left so I just glue all of them very closly together. Now that they grew out a bit up until about 2 weeks ago their color seem to have morph together. It's rly cool. I'm using iPhone cam so the pic doesn't look near as vivid as it does in person. The flower polyps from it seems to be a combine green/purple color. Can't get pic of it for it closed when I held it up. The purple acro turned a lot more blue/green now and have a very light purple/pink ring on its tip. Green acro turned a bit more green/blueish. The mother from the two are still the same color as always. Any1 else have experience with this?

Doug · #2 01-26-2014, 04:00 AM

Nice. A purple hulk...

asylumdown · #3 01-26-2014, 05:56 AM

'hulk' and 'purple' are trade names and have little to do with the genetics of the actual coral. Are those the same species? I would have thought anything that wasn't the same species would have killed each other?

jason604 · #4 01-26-2014, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by asylumdown

'hulk' and 'purple' are trade names and have little to do with the genetics of the actual coral. Are those the same species? I would have thought anything that wasn't the same species would have killed each other?

I thought they were gonna kill each other at first as well but actually there a piece of the purple acro an the hulk fused together and the color is so spectacular.

Here is the mother of each coral

I'm gonna try fragging 1polyp of 2 diff type of acros again and put them very close to see what will happen this time.

SeaHorse_Fanatic · #5 01-26-2014, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Doug

Nice. A purple hulk...

The newest member of THE AGENTS of S.M.A.S.H.

jason604 · #6 01-26-2014, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by SeaHorse_Fanatic

The newest member of THE AGENTS of S.M.A.S.H.

Lol grow it out sell it for 20x the price. Yeeeeee budday >=)

Bblinks · #7 01-26-2014, 08:05 PM

Nice work bud. I tried that too a whole bunch of time but never succeeded. Let that piece grow and you can name it after you. Call it the Jason's ultimate hulk acro!

limited edition! I think the price just went up again. Lol

jason604 · #8 01-28-2014, 02:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Bblinks

Nice work bud. I tried that too a whole bunch of time but never succeeded. Let that piece grow and you can name it after you. Call it the Jason's ultimate hulk acro!

limited edition! I think the price just went up again. Lol

Lol good name ill do that once it grows out into a beautiful
Colony. I almost sold this frag to a reefer here for $20 lucky he never showed up and the color morphed few days after

pinkreef · #9 01-28-2014, 04:05 PM

could it be that each mother had a different clade of zooxanthelae (spelling) and when the two pieces were put together they shared?
that might explain it as i have seen it myself in palys

jason604 · #10 01-28-2014, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by pinkreef

could it be that each mother had a different clade of zooxanthelae (spelling) and when the two pieces were put together they shared?
that might explain it as i have seen it myself in palys

I dunno. Mybe its cuz I glued them as single polyps so it was easier for them to be compatible with each other? I will experiment with different colours n different size frags to see what else can magically happen =)