Blue tipped staghorn question

[Aquattro]

you mean vertical, right?

Tony, here is a pic of mine......does yours do this?

[Delphinus]

Moose antlers, yes ... but I've seen several good examples of staghorns that were nice big vertical branches. I guess what I was wondering if, in those cases, did they grow like that or did they have be pruned a lot (I'm kind of thinking like how a little tree is "trained" to become a bonsai).

What it could be, is that this is one of those fast growing staghorns that grow really fast, then break off, and make and become a veritable forest of antlers that is an awesome habitat for other fish and stuff. The only problem is, as cool as that looks, one would probably need a dedicated tank to replicate that in captivity ... putting a frag of that coral and hoping it will stay put in it's little 6" circle is probably not going to work out...

Jonathan, yeah, sure, would love to, there's an easy solution!!!! Sigh .... need a bigger house ... need a bigger paycheque .... need a bigger tank!!!

I think what could be a factor is that this one errant branch, started growing when the coral was in the bottom center front of the tank, where the current is somewhat laminar (even after the addition of the wavemaker). The branch had grown with the current. Now that it's repositioned, I was hoping the branch would again follow the predominant currents, but it seems to have elected to buck the trend, and just keep growing straight (straight into my M. cap).

(Big corals, little tank -> problem!!!)