bler Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Nice! I have some tyree blue flower petal monti if you want to toss that into the mix! Its beautiful, and massive, about 2' square. if I even breath near the tank big slabs fall off 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bler Posted September 18, 2020 Author Share Posted September 18, 2020 OOh, the green and blue would be pretty cool, especially since the green monti has the purple polyps and purple rim! or even just a 'psychadelic' one of them all together haha I'll hit you up to grab a piece especially since we are so close Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheClark Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 2 hours ago, bler said: OOh, the green and blue would be pretty cool, especially since the green monti has the purple polyps and purple rim! or even just a 'psychadelic' one of them all together haha I'll hit you up to grab a piece especially since we are so close Sounds good! Work is nuts but I see a light at the end of the tunnel (Yes, I am working right now.. stilll... ugh!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMeyer Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 I'll be curious to hear how this goes. I tried this with some orange and purple capricornis a while back. They wouldnt fuse for me, and the purple took over (I ended up with 6 mini colonies of purple cap instead of 6 grafted frags) It probably depends a lot on which varieties you start with, what colors are these? (unsure because of the blue) I still think the grafted varieties in the hobby are products of somatic mutation rather than true grafting but I keep trying! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CuttleFishandCoral Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 I have the best luck making a checkerboard pattern when grapting montis. The smaller the better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bler Posted September 18, 2020 Author Share Posted September 18, 2020 2 hours ago, EMeyer said: I'll be curious to hear how this goes. I tried this with some orange and purple capricornis a while back. They wouldnt fuse for me, and the purple took over (I ended up with 6 mini colonies of purple cap instead of 6 grafted frags) It probably depends a lot on which varieties you start with, what colors are these? (unsure because of the blue) I still think the grafted varieties in the hobby are products of somatic mutation rather than true grafting but I keep trying! Thanks for the info, they are (from what I can tell) an orange monti and a green with purple polyp.. 23 minutes ago, CuttleFishandCoral said: I have the best luck making a checkerboard pattern when grapting montis. The smaller the better. Ok, that makes sense.. I did two that were decent sized pieces side by side and another mish-mash of the random pieces that were just sitting in the bottom of the fragging tray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoralReefTankers Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Definitely following this. I have tried a couple times to do this and basically always have them just grow away from each other, but never graft 🤔. Best of luck, I think things like this are so awesome to do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenbasketreef Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 As far as I know grafted happened in nature, even the same species usually won't fuse together if the two part not originally from the same colony. If a wild grafted coral come in 2 color red and green for example, years later if one grow the red section and found the green part from the same original colony the two color portion will graft. We seen this often when a vendor sending grafted montipora in two part as one frag, it is because the two section will fuse together and form one colony. So it is not that vendor making up the two unknown section and call it grafted coral. It has to come from wild grafted to be able to design a pattern on grafted coral 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zorroreef Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Two different monties, both called grafted, for illustration purposes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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