BADBaxter Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 I was posting this pic (getting better with the camera:)) and saw this! What happened... did the shrooms mate? How would that only effect the pie shaped portion? Are these the parents: (OK bad photo:() Just curious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siskiou Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 What happened... did the shrooms mate? Just curious. I have no idea if it's possible, but it sure looks like it! (laugh) In my 20G I have blue and red schrooms next to each other. Now I'll have to watch out for morphs, but so far it's mostly red mushrooms taking over. I started with one and now have about 15. The blues are much slower to multiply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyenna Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Wow, looks pretty cool. Time for ebay: super rare discosoma! (whistle) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly guy Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 Thats really strange and cool. The brown pie strip even looks like it has larger bumps on it just like the brown shrooms...... Weird. Either that or you just are REALLY good at photoshop and messin with us.......... : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BADBaxter Posted November 19, 2006 Author Share Posted November 19, 2006 I don't even own photoshop... If I did the photos would be flawleess.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbrownies Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 I've seen rust mushrooms with blue radial stripes, but not the other way around, keep it happy and see how it multiplies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronjunior Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 If you end up watching Lowman's Reef video, they talk about how when the seas are calm, the corals send out eggs and sperm all at once and do/can create new life forms by cross fertilization. As a funny side note, the other day I thought my pink Caribbean star polyps sent eggs all over because I left a PH blasting on it for awhile....came in a few hours later, and little "eggs" were floating around and hundreds were all over the sand and perched on the rocks. I thought, awesome, looked just like the eggs in the video. (I moved this coral a week prior and it sent either sperm or poison around so I've seen smoke like stuff coming out of it before). Well, then I realized what an idiot I can be....it was a sealed bag of Purigen that I forgot I had rubber banded in my canister filter...the rubberband was because it had a hole in it when I bought it and it must have opened up.....(nutty) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisW Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 I think it's a case of zoanthelle swaping. Do a search on ReefCentral and I think you will find some info. It is definitly documented...just gotta find it. Very cool pics!! Dennis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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