New form of Goniopora asexual reproduction?

[MFisher]

For six months or so my goniopora has shed polyps. This typically occurs in times of high stress (i.e. dropping on the floor, extreme salinities, lights out for a week)that typically occur in my reef tank. Usually these polyps don't survive and seem to be very flaccid and poor looking. Today I found one that is quite expanded (better than the mother colony in fact) and seems to be flourishing. This is not a polyp ball like others have reported. It has no skeleton and has only one polyp, unlike a polyp ball which has many. The 55 had evaporated off nearly ten gallons of water before I topped it off with several buckets of cold RO water several days ago. The goni is on the rock structure near the top and two inches of the coral was sticking out of the water. Personally, I prefer to keep it on the sand but the tank was recently moved and I've not ambitious enough to rearrange, but thats another story.

So, has anyone seen this before? I'll see if I can post a pic or two sometime soon.

Later,

Matt

 

[monkeyboy]

Never seen it but considder yourself lucky! Not only are you successfully keeping goniopora (even after dropping it on the floor... i hope your kidding

)but it's reproducing! Sounds like polyp bail-out which happens in times of stress or just randomly. This happens frequently with pocillopora and i wouldn't doubt that it could happen w/ goniopora. Maybe someone else has witnessed it...