Am I going to have 2 brains?

[kzoo]

I have nursed this coral back, I thought it was going to die. The skeleton was coming out near the center, now it looks to be coming together in the center. It feeds on both sides, anyone?[IMG][/IMG]

[Genin]

if there are two mouths then I guess you will have gotten another brain out of the deal. or at least a two headed brain!!

[katpurdy]

open brains can have more than one mouth...at last count, my green one had 6

[organism]

nah, it won't split that I know of, but it will grow out more folds as it grows

[oddballs]

like organism said it wont split.but this brings up another question is this a solitary animal or is it a colonial animal?

[kzoo]

Thanks

[PufferFish87]

Originally posted by oddballs
like organism said it wont split.but this brings up another question is this a solitary animal or is it a colonial animal?

Interesting to think about but I would say solitary

[keckles]

Without looking anything up, I would say colonial. The fact that the growth of the coenosteum/costae/wall makes the coral appear to be one large "polyp" is misleading. I would consider the fact that they have multiple mouths/gastrodermis to be an indication of a colony. But, maybe the mouths have to be in completely seperate skeletons such as Euphyllia.

This is interesting, I want to look into this. Lobophyllia would be another interesting study because of the differences in costae between it and Tracyphyllia.

What do you think, Scott?

[keckles]

After referring to Corals of the World by JEN Veron, I would consider Tracyphyllia to be colonial. It would most likely fall under the classification of meandroid, possible flabello-meandroid colonial growth.

[milhouse74]

As already stated, won't split. Great coral though, I love feeding mine squid chunks.