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noirsphynx 07-22-2009 04:11 PM

Baby Fungia
 
What does everyone think this is.......possibly a Rhizo? I bought it as a hitchhiker on a frag from a LFS. It was the size of pencil eraser but is quickly growing. In a month and a half it's grown to the size of a quater.
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...zoJuly2209.jpg

Ephraim 07-22-2009 04:17 PM

fungia

sphelps 07-22-2009 04:17 PM

It's not a rhizo, I've seen them before I'm not sure exactly what they are but they look like a type of plate coral.

noirsphynx 07-22-2009 04:56 PM

Thanks guys. Yes, I think you're right, baby plate corals. Very cool free hitchhiker. I actually have 2 of them :biggrin:

Tomjay 07-22-2009 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sphelps (Post 436701)
It's not a rhizo, I've seen them before I'm not sure exactly what they are but they look like a type of plate coral.

+1 It’s not a Rhizo, I have a Rhizo

sharuq1 07-22-2009 05:59 PM

Neat find!

noirsphynx 07-22-2009 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sharuq1 (Post 436735)
Neat find!

I think so too :biggrin: Annnnnd to make it even neater, there's a good chance I have a propagation site which means as the plate grows and eventually falls off and on to the sandbed where a mature plate normally resides a new baby could grow in its place where it was :clap2:

noirsphynx 06-03-2010 08:12 PM

It's been nearly a year since posting this but today I picked up the fungia to move it and it finally released from its propagation site. I had 2 babies but they ended up merging together.
Here it is(when I bought it, the diameter was the size of an eraser on a pencil):
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...x/P6030120.jpg
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...x/P6030122.jpg
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/t...x/P6030123.jpg

I'm hoping the propagation site will now regenerate another baby.

Wingin It 06-03-2010 11:10 PM

Very cool!


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