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12-12-2008, 10:29 PM
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why the puddle effect
why is all my sps growing like a puddle effect in stead of growing up and out.
the base is huge the tops arent that great. 150 gal 35 gal sump 170 lb of mixed rock phos ban reactor Bubble king mini 200 3 x250 Lumenarc's 2x 12K reef flux 1 14K sun aquatic's CAL 400-420 ALk 8.8-9.0 DKH Mag 1300 NO3, NO2, Ammonia all at 0 I change 5 gal per week. the lights are about 15" from the top of the water all corals are sitting around the 18" mark in the tank flow is a tunze 6000 and 6080 soon to have a 6212 wave box in there  
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12-12-2008, 10:30 PM
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Some corals like growing up, some like to encrust before they get massive. Just think of it as a good thing, now when they grow huge they won't fall off their mount
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12-12-2008, 10:54 PM
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ya see and I thought that I had retarded corals.
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12-12-2008, 11:43 PM
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12-13-2008, 12:33 AM
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12-13-2008, 02:10 AM
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I have exactly the same "problem" and I was just about ready to ask if there was any parameter I could manipulate to facilitate more branching and vertical growth instead. All my SPS seem more interested in developing a wide base or thickening their branches than growing vertically - they must be the offspring of siblings like yours
 I also have the same apparent lack of coraline growing and any other algae that you do. The corals expand at their bases and add mass at a decent rate but I don't really have any algae growing (including coraline). And before anybody asks - yes my Mg, Ca, Alk, pH, temp, PO4, NO3, SG are within optimal ranges (with the exception of NO3 being 0 with testing using Elos and Salifert kits).
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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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