Shane,
>1. I have an acropora that has grown to be about 3 inches under the
>water surface. The MH bulb is 5 inches above the surface. What do you all do
>when your SPS grow very close to the surface? Move em down? Frag em? Let em
>grow?
Nothing. I have a colony the grows like a weed, 5mm per week. It started
out as a frag about 40-50mm long. Now it is a colony that is 350mm across
and 300mm tall. Somewhere around 2 years old now I think, or something
like that. Most of the branches have reached the water surface in my tank.
The water is a bit wavy, so the tips can actually grow about the water
surface. But then they die off, and the coral starts to grow outwards, bit
like a mushroom type of shape. I have another colony of the same species
that was only 10cm from the water surface. If you pulled it out of the
tank and turned it upside down and placed it on a table it would sit flat.
>have begun to extend. The question is, do you all think the coral just needs
>more time to adjust, it may have been a lighter color when it was in the
>ocean, and just turned that brown in captivity or is this a sure sign that
>the coral was from a deeper region and should just be kept at lower light. I
Just give it some more time. Not every coral is the same. If you find you
can't give it full intensity, then simply don't and find a spot where it is
happy. Don't aim for "rules" that people tell you, aim for what keeps the
coral happy.
Catch ya,
DBW | The Caretaker, OZ REEF Marine Park
Melbourne | http://ozreef.org/
Australia | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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