mossimo654
07/25/2017, 01:35 AM
Hi all.
I have a stylophora colony that I got about 7 months ago. I've heard they tend to grow slowly, but this guy's gone gangbusters since then, easily quintupling in size.
However in the last few weeks I've noticed that about a two inch section on two of the "stalks" have been staying receded.
This is confusing because I can't think of any reason just this section would be acting this way because, of all the reasons I can think of that polyps wouldn't expand (such as lighting, flow, pests, dirty water etc) wouldn't it affect the entire colony/corals around it (which have been unaffected)?
I did change around the rock work right before it started doing this. However I don't think it's any closer to the lighting, and regardless, different parts of the "stalk" are closer and those polyps appear normal.
Anyway I hope it's ok, I really love this guy and hope it's just one of those weird "oh yeah sometimes it does that for no reason" things that corals seem to have.[
I've attached a pic with the area circles for reference. In the pic most polyps are receded since it was nighttime and I only briefly turned on lights to get a pic.
http://http://imgur.com/GqFlJON
I have a stylophora colony that I got about 7 months ago. I've heard they tend to grow slowly, but this guy's gone gangbusters since then, easily quintupling in size.
However in the last few weeks I've noticed that about a two inch section on two of the "stalks" have been staying receded.
This is confusing because I can't think of any reason just this section would be acting this way because, of all the reasons I can think of that polyps wouldn't expand (such as lighting, flow, pests, dirty water etc) wouldn't it affect the entire colony/corals around it (which have been unaffected)?
I did change around the rock work right before it started doing this. However I don't think it's any closer to the lighting, and regardless, different parts of the "stalk" are closer and those polyps appear normal.
Anyway I hope it's ok, I really love this guy and hope it's just one of those weird "oh yeah sometimes it does that for no reason" things that corals seem to have.[
I've attached a pic with the area circles for reference. In the pic most polyps are receded since it was nighttime and I only briefly turned on lights to get a pic.
http://http://imgur.com/GqFlJON