stunted growth?

[Nano]

Thanks for the replies so far guys, and Wayne funny you should mention the angel fish, I too since losing mine have notices crazy polyp extension. Not sure if its related but eho knows. My birdsnests are growing slowly, but the rest seem to be at a stand still, the bonzai I picked up as well as the purple cross haven't grown I bet even a 1/4" in 4 months. And i have 2 favia, one that grows like mad, and tge other is just starting to encrust the plug after 4 months its a littl confusing and frustrating

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Nano

Thanks for the replies so far guys, and Wayne funny you should mention the angel fish, I too since losing mine have notices crazy polyp extension. Not sure if its related but eho knows. My birdsnests are growing slowly, but the rest seem to be at a stand still, the bonzai I picked up as well as the purple cross haven't grown I bet even a 1/4" in 4 months. And i have 2 favia, one that grows like mad, and tge other is just starting to encrust the plug after 4 months its a littl confusing and frustrating

sometimes coral put their energy into growing out not up so the growing over the plug takes alot of time and energy on the corals part.

[Nano]

Could be, the bonsai has encrusted a bit but not grown up, perhaps that's what's happening

[reefwars]

Originally Posted by Nano

Could be, the bonsai has encrusted a bit but not grown up, perhaps that's what's happening

def could be , theres alot of cases of growth stopping while the plug grows over , usually then the light dssappears and theres nowhere but up

just a possibility, id judge by my overall colors and looks before i made any drastic changes.

[Bblinks]

Originally Posted by reefwars

sometimes coral put their energy into growing out not up so the growing over the plug takes alot of time and energy on the corals part.

Good point, my red planet frags takes a hell of long time to encrust the plug but once it reaches the end of the plug it starts to grow like crazy.

Also not sure how much flow is in tank, maybe switch it up a bit and see what it does.

Brad had mentioned temperature in relations to metabolism and growth rate, I always kept my at 24 degrees with a degree of variation during the night, maybe bump the temp up a bit.....

Do you feed your tank any coral food? Whats your fish count?

[Nano]

Yea maybe turn the temp up 1-2 degrees. I've got lots of flow 3 power head and the return in a 35g not sure what the total return flow rate is, probably about 500+/- and 3 PH's at 250gph each so flows not an issue there. As for food I just feed reef roids not sure what else too feed :P

Btw anyone running the tunze 9002 skimmer, do the airline mod, i did it this Friday passed and pulled out in three days what i would in like 2 weeks and its thick