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How do Favias grow?


TheGooseWhisperer

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I have a coral that volunteered itself out of a zoa frag. I first noticed some tiny feeders sticking up out of the top of the piece of rock and was considering blasting it assuming it was an apatasia. I ended up letting it go and it got big enough to tell that it was not. Now I'm thinking its a favia.

 

There are 3 polyps now and it seems to me that the flesh is growing down and covering the rock as the polyps enlarge rather than growing up on a skeleton. The lowest 2 polyps are very near a couple zoa polyps and I'm not sure if I should try to "rescue" them with a scalpel and transfer them to a frag plug or if the favia will grow up and not end up overgrowing them.

 

I wish I could get a good picture to show, but my lil cannon powershot refuses to do anything but focus on the glass.

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