montipora thought

I Have About A 5 Inch Tall Montipora. It Is A Dark Pink With Light Pink Tips. I Recently Repositioned It And Broke one Of The "Shelvs" Off. And Just The Other Day I Bought A Blueberry Monti Frag. IF I Take That Frag And Put It On A Rock Touching The Broken Pink Piece, Will They End Up Growing Their Colors Together? Because I Think A Bright Blue And Pink Monti Would Be RealLy Awesome

 

Hi There! They would end up growing together, but they would also kill each other. My friend has a Seasons Greetings Monti that he's fragged a bunch, and all the frags grew together on the rack. I don't know EXACTLY how 2 different species would react to each other, Coral warfare, probably.

 

There used to be a couple thread on the forums about patching different colors of monitpora together and allowing them to grow out that way.

Here is one Green/Red.
Montipora Capricornis coral careReef keeping made simple

One Purple/Green.
http://reefculture.co.uk/?avada_portfolio=how-to-frag-plating-montipora
I am not sure how such different types of montipora would work but I would be tempted to try.

 

What i think you are referring to is coral grafting. Which has been done accidentally with a coral spawning event or manually by placing the same exact species next to each other and letting them "fuse" together. You would be doing this manually but the Montipora has to be exactly the same species or they will fight and just grow around each other. with well over 80 species of Montipora, must misidentified, it will be very difficult to find two of the same species with different colors. You have better odds of a spawning event induced graft like seen here in Steve Garrett Grafted Millepora.

 

Here a better pic of the tissue.

 

Looks interesting

 

That's Awesome, Thanks For All Your Input Guys

 

Get some pix