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StirCrazy
August 14th, 2002, 09:31 PM
I have a small Brain that came with my rock for free as it was dead, well after 2 weeks I noticed it started glowing more and more under actinics so when i looked close I saw it was starting to come back.

this is all good but there is a problem, while it was "dead" a polyp took up resadence inside the skelaton, I was going to try grab it out (or scrape it out) with tweasers but I descovered that it can pull down under the ribs of the skelaton and not wanting to break some of this I stopped and thought I would see how you guys/girls would go about this.

here is the pic of the problem,
http://members.shaw.ca/stircrazy/critters/polypinbrain.jpg
as you can see all the white area is the new growth.. this thing had no flesh at all 3 weeks ago, and I was keeping it beacuse there was a worm living in the lump on the outside..

Steve

reefburnaby
August 15th, 2002, 03:09 PM
Hi,

I think it's really a race of who will be stronger first. The Polyp might win, but the brain coral is an LPS. The LPS has strong stingers that might kill off the polyp. IMHO, I would play the waiting game.

- Victor.