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12-13-2008, 02:31 AM
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Ive found through experience that newly added corals are some times stunted by the new conditions and never recover.Only by encrusting and growing from the sides they regrow.But I have had lots of success by clipping all the tips.They regenerate from there and look really good after awhile.Ive done that about 10 times,worked every time.It may look ugly at first but youll thank me in 3 months. That is if you try it. just do it
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12-13-2008, 10:56 AM
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Nothing wrong with those corals. They grew up here.
 I wonder if when you see larger colonies of someones acro, the base is not larger than one thinks. I thought I once read that a healthy acro is one that encrusts a good base first? If the coral just grew vertical and not horizontal, I doubt it would last for long in the wild. I think the one your most concerned about Mike, has decent vertical growth also, at least, IMO
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12-13-2008, 02:12 PM
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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 .
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12-13-2008, 04:11 PM
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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.
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400 gal reef. Established April, 2007. 3 Sequence Dart, RM12-4 skimmer, 2 x OM4Ways, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown (pair), Blonde Naso Tang, Vlamingi Tang, Foxface Rabbit, Unicorn Tang, 2 Pakistani Butterflies and a few coral gobies My Tank: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=28436
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12-13-2008, 04:13 PM
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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.
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12-13-2008, 04:20 PM
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ahhhhhhhhhh, but i have soem sps that are colonies and still soem are pretty skinny thou.
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180 starfire front, LPS, millipora Doesn't matter how much you have been reading until you take the plunge. You don't know as much as you think.
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12-13-2008, 04:59 PM
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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. 
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