• Growth of favus

  • Alexander

Growth of Favia. There is a small fragment of Favia (broken off from a large colony). I am interested in how to add rocks to Favia so that it continues its colony on them (I want to grow the colony on large live rocks). --------------------------------------- Thank you for the information - post #10. For now, I have the following thoughts: To shape the broken live rock to match the shape of the Favia piece and glue it with epoxy (cement) (to assemble it like a mosaic - any shape and size) or to create a planting spot for Favia on the live rock and glue it with epoxy (cement).

Sheila1322

In my opinion, it will be easier to glue the frag itself to the live rock with super glue. It takes quite a long time to grow, and it might get lost behind the rocks before it attaches (if it's really small).

Diana7891

Favia is an LPS (large-polyp stony coral) coral with its own skeleton. Accordingly, it does not attach to the rock and does not crawl from stone to stone like soft corals.

Luis3725

+100 But it can spread, that is, grow on everything that is located nearby. However, this is quite a lengthy process.

Matthew

This is exactly what interests me. I want to look not at a piece of coral lying in the aquarium, but at a coral that seems to be growing on one of the live rocks.

Wendy8540

My favia has "wrapped" its skeleton around the stone it was lying on for 2 years.

Heather6148

I want to do it that way. But for now, it doesn't look very good - just lying on J.K. (living stones).

Mariah

Is the placement of Favia on sand allowed or only on rocks? I just placed mine right on the sand in a secluded spot, and now I'm wondering.

Beth3383

You'll have to wait until it grows. You can do it on the sand, as long as it doesn't get covered with it. She doesn't like that.

Sheila1322

To speed up this process, the adherence to the stone must be strong so that it can crawl over it more easily as it grows. Sometimes, when the distances are large, the skeleton goes under the stone... This problem was solved by connecting two stones with KZ glue (cement), as suggested to me. I am attaching a photo. This is Acanthastrea... but the essence is the same...

Cheryl

I really liked the middle photo (you could say I fell in love at first sight). Right now, I have the following thoughts: To trim the piece of live rock to match the shape of the frag and glue it (assemble it like a mosaic - any shape and size) or To create a mounting spot for the frag on the live rock and glue it in.

Meghan

In the first photo, in the left corner, it's the same one, but just glued. In the one you liked, it's after 4-5 months... We were making the seating area, and you are looking for suitable stones.

Kevin3114

How close can this glue or cement get to coral tissues?

Rick

As far as possible! I managed to get 1mm closer, but I got the fabric a bit dirty with dust, and Akana got stressed. In particularly difficult spots, I used a toothpick to get in there!

Natalie

It does not crawl, but it encrusts. We glue the stone to the desired surface, and we feed the polyps close to the desired encrusting area every 2 days in a targeted manner. We check the results after 3-4 months. By the way, this works not only for madrepore corals but also for soft corals. I can't say for SPS, as I haven't experimented with them. I can say for sure that encrusting happens much faster than the growth of the coral's own skeleton for a solitary coral in the sand. There are plenty of offspring, but they grow slowly. However, they encrust additional surfaces more quickly.