Leng Sy Clone

[Anonymous]

Here's a couple of pictures of a Leng Sy Clone that I picked up from Reefnutz about 6 months ago.

Does anyone know what type of Monti the Leng Sy is?

Louey

 

[Unarce]

He's how the Leng Sy Clone looked before I got rid of it (cap on the right).

It's basically the thin, whorling plate growth, which is typical of a capricornis.

 

[Unarce]

Here's my Idaho Grape, which is listed as an undata.

It also can display the similar plating growth, but it has much thicker ridges and corallites.

 

[Unarce]

Here's an pic of my True Leng Sy Cap.

The upward growth of the nodules is the defining charateristic of this piece. It's more likely to be a M. tuberculosa or M. aquituberculata than an M. capricornis.

 

[Anonymous]

I'll be interested to see if my clone gets the nudule's that are typical of the true Leng Sy's.

I think it has more character than all of the caps that I have had in the past. Allthough the picture you posted of the mother colony that it came from certainly does look like a cap. Strange how differently corals grow from one tank to another.

Louey

 

[Unarce]

It's possible, as you likely have more flow than I did.

That piece you got from me, was sold to me as the True Leng Sy from a guy in Virginia. As it grew out, it was pretty clear that it was a clone. The same guy had also claimed that the solitaryensis he sold me was the Tyree version. I'm starting to doubt that as well :x

 

[Anonymous]

I got a watermelon I'll sell you Karl

 

[Anonymous]

hmmmm is this an undata too??

Here's a picture of the colony before it broke off.. and before it purpled back up