why the puddle effect

[Skimmerking]

that Josh the tank has been staying pretty clean I don't know why thou..

the flow is pretty good in there with the tunze's and the wave box that i'm going th have in there .

[untamed]

I've got SPS that have formed HUGE colonies (12" high) that grew down from the original frag...out...then up. Right in the middle of the mass of coral is the original frag, which has not grown even a bit.

[Delphinus]

I would expect flow is probably the largest contributing factor but if starting off as frags, sometimes they just encrust out first to establish a solid foundation before growing upwards. A lot of folks mount their frags horizontally to establish more base at first to even encourage more encrusting first.

[Skimmerking]

ahhhhhhhhhh, but i have soem sps that are colonies and still soem are pretty skinny thou.

[Doug]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

ahhhhhhhhhh, but i have soem sps that are colonies and still soem are pretty skinny thou.

Patience, Mr. bubbleking. Your corals all look great. Just think, one day you can say every sps in that tank was grown from frags. Even the colonies you got from me, were tiny frags I once got from you.

[Skimmerking]

lol
ya i forgot, most of them are from me from the beginning

[Trigger Man]

Here I wish my frags grew wide then vertical, instead of vertical. You can always get some frags from Snappy, 4 of the six I picked up didn't even start branching out till 1.5+ inch size. They are long and skinny. I was also told that by adding more calcium and alk the branches would grow more thin then stubby, and from what I have witnessed in my sps growth this has been true (went on vacation for 3 weeks in the summer so no calcium or alk was added and you can actually notice that part of the coral to be a little thicker then below and above the noted section).

[untamed]

Originally Posted by Trigger Man

Here I wish my frags grew wide then vertical, instead of vertical. You can always get some frags from Snappy, 4 of the six I picked up didn't even start branching out till 1.5+ inch size. They are long and skinny. I was also told that by adding more calcium and alk the branches would grow more thin then stubby, and from what I have witnessed in my sps growth this has been true (went on vacation for 3 weeks in the summer so no calcium or alk was added and you can actually notice that part of the coral to be a little thicker then below and above the noted section).

Maybe...but I think it is specific to the coral. I have slow, tabling corals...tall spindly corals...thick ball-shaped coral...slow growing, thick branching type...and they are all growing in the same tank conditions.

[xtopher]

In my old tank I had the same concern. One day I looked and every single coral was a very large colony. Just be patient. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither is a coral reef