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Propagation of Scolymia Australis Now with feeding images...weird stuff

Feeding
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I placed mysis on it's feeder tentacles, and a little piece dropped in front of the cut.
I noticed its guts started to come out a bit, and watched as it grabbed this piece...blurred, but its a whole mysis shrimp
The coral then surrounded the piece of shrimp in its intestines..I think thats what it is....
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And in a few minutes, it dissolved/disappeared inside the mass
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within 5 minutes it had tucked itself back inside
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Now thats cool!
 
I just noticed it has formed a new mouth, and surprisingly its rotated 90 degrees from where it was originally. We cut it splitting the mouth lengthwise, instead of across. Check it out....its hungry...
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that tissue is fully joined, so its a functioning mouth.
 
I got better pictures after i brought the corals to my new display, surprisingly, the cut has totally healed and has generated new skeleton where the guts used to be exposed.
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