While I'm showing pics of Corals.. check this out

[snowmansnow]

This is a orange cap that I bought a WHILE ago form a LFS (when it was still in business). At the purchase time it was small enough that you could see frag plug on all sides.

Well, at some point I knocked it off the rockwork. It stayed missing a few weeks in a crack and when I found it I noticed a single green polyp in the middle.

Now, as it grows, green tissue and polyps show up. The green areas aren't dead or bleached they are GREEN.. the tissue around them is also green.
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[snowmansnow]

i recently read an article in "Coral" about green tissue infection (or something like that) Tyree had something to do with it.. do you think that's whats happening here?

 

[fish scales2]

I hope so! That was an intresting read wasnt it. Do you have any pocillipora in your system and how bright green is the new growth?

 

[columbus reef]

A while back, I saw (in a mag or maybe here) where some guy had fragged small pieces of orange and green monti onto a disk. The colony had grown out so it looked like a checkerboard. Since it was MIA for all that time, perhaps it "merged" with another broken piece. One way or the other, it is really cool looking!

 

[lifestudent]

Please look carefully at the damaged area again.

In your 1st photo in the largest "green area" at 9 o'clock, there is a tiny white horizontal speck that may be a "baby" montipora eating nudibranch.

I hope I'm wrong, but please recheck your coral to see if the "green" area gets larger or if you see any other white rice looking objects.

 

[mvm]

Nope. MEN leave white, not green. They are BAD!! They're the only reason I'm happy that my tank crashed!!

 

[corigan]

Columbus Reef;494361 wrote: A while back, I saw (in a mag or maybe here) where some guy had fragged small pieces of orange and green monti onto a disk. The colony had grown out so it looked like a checkerboard. Since it was MIA for all that time, perhaps it "merged" with another broken piece. One way or the other, it is really cool looking!

Yeah, it's becoming a fad to graft corals.

 

[snowmansnow]

not something i did on purpose.. but it would be cool to have a spotted cap and no.. nothing is eating at it. It's green not white..

i think the white thing is a reflection in the water.