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Old 01/09/2008, 01:58 AM
Kolognekoral Kolognekoral is offline
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Sounds fascinating! Have you taken photos? hard to say what may cause this, but I seriously doubt we have a new morph. It the second coral possibly another A. loripes?

In other life forms, where such combinations have appeared, they typically are only temporary chimaeras and revert to one of the original organisms. They are closely related, which makes it possible in the first place.

I had a pair of Acros that had grown together on a stone, but they always showed their distinctive attributes, despite the branch of one sprouting right through the tissue of the other. One eventually became dominant, due to its faster growth rate. I eventually lost the coral, but the skeleton must be around somewhere. I still have a tiny frag of the dominant Acro.
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