Coral Growth
 

Hmmmm, I've always wondered why is it that the ugly corals grow the fastest? What I've found is that the corals that I like less in my tank are the fastest growing corals and the ones that are "desired" grow so much slower. It's almost like the most expensive frag that I buy grows the slowest and the $10 - $15 dollar frags just grow like crazy. Or the most expensive corals change to a "normal" looking coral in my tank and when you give it away it becomes "super nice" again. It's kind of frustrating.

You can buy those cheap frags for that price BECAUSE they grow so fast =)

maybe its like growing flowers they say if you talk to them and sing to them they grow faster....

I sing some pretty darn silly songs to my kids and they're growing like weeds. I write some pretty catchy stuff but most of it's about poop. Not sure the corals would like it.

Don't corals eat fish poop. Maybe you're onto something there Brett.

Lol good point. You must have your toilet's drain teed into your tank then!

my overflow sure sounds like its tied into the toilet at times...i cant sing to my corals im afriad ill break the glass.

So true!......the other thing that "gets" me is.......the cheap corals are always the stingy-est and win in a coral fight.....:neutral:

I believe there is a category for this under Murphy's Law.

What frustrates me is when I buy a frag (or even a colony) of something that I think looks cool at the LFS (or someone's tank), I bring it home and within a few weeks it turns into an exact replica of a colony that I already had.. WTF! :neutral:

I used to have that problem with zoas strangely enough.