un-fragging or reassembling a colony

[CiXeL]

Has anyone here re-assembled a colony before? i noticed alot of my digitatas will unexpectedly frag just brushing up against them so i decided to try to glue all the pieces that had been accumulating together.

what i noticed was that when you glued them together they would eventually grow back together and with each piece that rejoined the colony there would be a growth spurt.
as long as the pieces recognize the same dna they will gladly re-connect to each other.

anyone else done this?

its alot nicer keeping all the pieces together in one colony than a bunch of little frags all over the place. also if you take a frag off and let it grow out and then reattach it you can get faster growth than the colony might do on its own. after a little bit of growth the colony starts looking natural again.

anyone know if its possible to do this with acros?

i like to have the say-so as to when to frag my corals and not whenever they feel like it.

 

[Anonymous]

I have had three difeerent color morphs of M digitata all meld together.

Where the different colors met, polyps would be right in line with each other, as if nothing was wrong. . .

 

[ricky1414]

I'm not sure, but I have a M.Digitata whose arms branched away from each other slightly, then back together. The area filled in and it looks like one wide diameter branch. That would be cool to have a multicolored Monti.

 

[Fatal Morgana]

>...anyone know if its possible to do this with acros?

It also work with acrop, but I only have experience with the frag from the same colony.

Maybe some of you want to glue some Monti together and make three connected letters "R_D_O" in three different color!