Polyps through the skeleton?!?
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tribbitt
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Glad your coral is so healthy.
When you cut the skeleton and expose the base of a polyp, it can grow a new polyp through that hole in the skeleton! People have propagated H. australis scolys this way too.
It does also look like there may already be some flesh covering the skeleton, because I can see some faint green that looks like tissue starting to creep around (clear because no algal symbiont yet). I agree that the polyps probably did not come from that new tissue though, and grew through the skeleton instead.
When you cut the skeleton and expose the base of a polyp, it can grow a new polyp through that hole in the skeleton! People have propagated H. australis scolys this way too.
It does also look like there may already be some flesh covering the skeleton, because I can see some faint green that looks like tissue starting to creep around (clear because no algal symbiont yet). I agree that the polyps probably did not come from that new tissue though, and grew through the skeleton instead.