animalkingdom
03/03/2015, 09:38 AM
Hi,
My candy cane colony and my duncan colony are both starting to shade out lower branches. I dont think their is any cross talk or signalling between the heads as they are separated by bone not soft tissue so maybe this is just the way it is with branching LPS. The lower polyps are getting small and turning white. Is this normal? Acropora and other SPS tend to grow in a way where they limit shading of themselves. Is this not true for branching LPS?
My candy cane colony and my duncan colony are both starting to shade out lower branches. I dont think their is any cross talk or signalling between the heads as they are separated by bone not soft tissue so maybe this is just the way it is with branching LPS. The lower polyps are getting small and turning white. Is this normal? Acropora and other SPS tend to grow in a way where they limit shading of themselves. Is this not true for branching LPS?