2 scolymias???

[luisse25]

ok i thought my scolymia is just unusual or deformed but when i look at it lights off and shrunken i notice theres like 2 small mouth...actually its like 2 heads....i can actually cut it in half and no harm done..heres pics...i just thought they are solitary...

 

[PCFishman]

If they appear to be two seperate disconnected heads I can't see why you wouldn't be able to split them.

 

[luisse25]

they are in the same skeleton but they can be frag in two though im scared to do it...i thought they are solitary...so they reproduce or bud?or it splits?

 

[trido]

Is it flat like a pancake? It almost looks like it could be a lobophilia to me. In the fisrts pic, it looks like closer to three mouths to me.

 

[ptownreefer]

If you have one of the inland band saws that should be easy to frag. Nice coral!

 

[luisse25]

Is it flat like a pancake? It almost looks like it could be a lobophilia to me. In the fisrts pic, it looks like closer to three mouths to me.

i won it at aquatic auction as elephant ear scolymia..i can only see 2 mouths though im gonna double check if theres third...though the looks of it it is an scolymia...just a weird looking one

 

[luisse25]

If you have one of the inland band saws that should be easy to frag. Nice coral!

thank uweird looking nice coral...havent see it eat..yet

 

[The Salty Dawg]

hey if you frag that scolly and want to trade let me know

 

[luisse25]

there is actually 3 small mouth..

 

[luisse25]

ok so it says that scolymias can occassionally be polycentric (having more than one mouth).........sooooo i can frag it to 3 because it has 3 mouth yay

 

[NC2WA]

luisse,

there is an article about fragging scolys in this month's issue of Reef Hobbyist Magazine.
I got mine at BRA and they are FREE.

I just purchased a bleeding apple scoly from AquaticAuction and love it...

 

[luisse25]

oooh youre the one who got that bleeding apple!!nice score

 

[luisse25]

update....

sooo i finally get to see the scoly open to feed...it is scary...thought something happened to it...i grab my cam and took pics...it has multiple mouths....????

 

[NC2WA]

to me it looks like 3 mouths

 

[morgan]

i personally wouldnt cut this coral for atleast 6 months to a year to watch the growth pattern expand i have seen alot of nice scolys (living, collecting in aust) i have heard a collector had found mulitple head scolys but only time will tell it dose loom kinda like a lobo and i have seen them that orange/gray colour dose your have a bit of green to?

 

[luisse25]

no theres no green on it...color is gray and pinkish red...and i bought it as scolymia..just a weird looking onei do have a lobo too and i already compared it and this one have a different structure than the lobo..