will it survive?

[staciloraine]

So...just bought a nice piece of Montipora Digitata from Kevin yesterday...looks lovely in the tank, polyps extended and seems happy. When we broke it off the rock it came on, there was a little tiny piece, like maybe 1/2 inch or less left on the rock. We went ahead an just put the rock in the tank just in case, and this morning the little chunk has some polyps out. Does this little tiny left over piece have a chance to survive on it's own?

 

[ajnweb]

I think it has a good chance to survive! Just treat it like you would a larger colony, same light and flow.

 

[staciloraine]

Yea! I was hoping to hear that from at least one person!

 

[spongebob lover]

that's usually how i get my frags , i love seeing them grow.

some of the ones i used to have (orange cap), i bought only as a penny size i believe and it grew to a tea cup plate, i got a stylophora about 1 inch and so far it has grown a lot i believe it grew about 5-6 time its size.
just make sure it's glued so it won't move

 

[returnofsid]

LOL I have Monipora growing in several places of my tank from that very thing. Yes, it should survive just fine. Good light, good flow and before you know it, you'll have a colony starting.

 

[reef18ster]

I agree with the rest. I have a hitchhiker sps on a rock that started with only 2 polyps. It doubled in size since I got the rock.

 

[staciloraine]

We are excited to see it grow (and glad that I was worried enough about killing even a tiny little thing to leave the rock in the tank in the first place!)

 

[Myteemouse]

I did this recently myself.
I had a acro (brown with bright green polyps) That I broke off the frag plug to put on a magnetic frag plug for the back glass.
But when I did this, it had already grown a tiny sliver (1/16" wide) on the glue that held it to the frag plug, and that is what was left on the plug after removeing it..
So I decided to leave the empty (almost) frag plug in the frag rack..
I just checked on it today and it has more than doubled in size of "flesh" on the plug..
So Now I have two frags of coral..
Fun stuff...

 

[staciloraine]

It's amazing that for all the difficulty that seems to come with keeping coral that so many have managed to grow anything with 3 polyps, been recently transplanted and ripped from its base!! Ours has, in the past four days, added 3 or 4 polyps. Two for one we all need a break these days!