My SPS Growth Experiment

I have this one Acro that just seems to love my tank, enduring a minor tank crash and it still grew. (No TDS meter on my RODI = learning experience.) Now that I have everything in my new 180 and the setup is going good I figured I would document the growth. Lighting is a custom design based off of Evolve's thread for the Rapid LED DIY.

Here are the pics, wish I had Photoshop installed so I could color correct the pics but I can do that another day.

Mother Colony:
[Has exhibited excellent growth and doubled in size and new sprouts not to mention totally encrusting around it as well. 4 inches tall x 2 inches wide]




Frag one:
[Started out as a single piece that had broken off in shipping and decided to put it on a frag disc] ~6 months of growth 2 inches wide x 1.5 inches tall



Frag Disc:
[Where Frag one had started on and completely encrusted the disc, figured why not?]



Frag 2:
[When fragging piece one I bumped a new growth spot so I decided to add it to a rock to monitor growth. Also note just to the right is a spot that some encrusting on the rock from the frag plug so I will monitor that as well]



Going to monitor growth for all the pieces, and see how it goes!

 

Love those Acro's !! curious to see just how quickly it grows..you gonna update weekly?
How about adding some params, mag, ca and alk? : )
tagging along, I just started growing some sps ...

 

I will definitely update weekly, I can almost look daily and see growth.

Mag 1500
Ca 480
dkh 8

 

Following.

Can you use photobucket to correct the image coloration? I would like to try to ID it.

Congrats on the growth, always rewarding to actually see some results.

 

I tried and failed it was not as good. I have a photographer coming over next weekend to take pics so he will take much better pics than I can with my iphone.

As for ID the acro it is actually white with light green polyps. Got it from Jeff at RAH.

 

Cool I will look for the update. Sounds very attractive.

 

BTW did a google search and found it. Oddly enough it came up in your thread for the JBJ 28gal thread. I couldnt find it in the posts but I did not feel like searching 30 pages...lol

 

dang it.

Now you have planted a bug I will have to go through the 30 pages to quell the curiosity. lol.

I want to see the green polyps and white base. Maybe an Orchid of some sort?

Oh well, patience.

 

Better pics and the rest of the sps in my tank

Green Staghorn:



Stylophora:



Pocillipora:



?? Dark Green Color



Orange and Red Cap:



Purple/Blue Digiata:



Milliepora:

 

By the way anyone interested in trading frags I am welcome to trades, there is somewhat limited selection for SPS in my area and some online retailers are just out of control with pricing some of these corals.