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December entry. Still alive. Still no growth. :pleading-face:

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Sorry for the shrimp photo bomb. He apparently thinks the measuring stick is food. I literally couldn’t chase him away long enough to take a picture.
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Clip the tips off it will promote growth.
 

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Clip the tips off it will promote growth.
I wouldn’t clip the tips. It has lack of PE and dry tissue, which means it isn’t really thriving. Clipping the tips could further stress it and requires energy to heal itself, which it might not have the capacity to.

Just my opinion.
 

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I wouldn’t clip the tips. It has lack of PE and dry tissue, which means it isn’t really thriving. Clipping the tips could further stress it and requires energy to heal itself, which it might not have the capacity to.

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Never had an issue ever! 8 out 10 times it promotes growth the other 2 it just skins over.. never lost a coral to this. Sps keepers have been doing this since the beggining.
 

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Never had an issue ever! 8 out 10 times it promotes growth the other 2 it just skins over.. never lost a coral to this. Sps keepers have been doing this since the beggining.
You have more experience than I do. I’m interested to see if it triggers a growth spurt. :)
 

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I wouldn’t clip the tips. It has lack of PE and dry tissue, which means it isn’t really thriving. Clipping the tips could further stress it and requires energy to heal itself, which it might not have the capacity to.

Just my opinion.
Any suggestions? It's directly under an AI Prime 16HD which is about 8" above water, with the frag about 8" underwater. I don't know the intensity off hand, but 80ish percent IIRC. Flow is strong, Alk is about 8dkh, NO3 in the high 20's, sometimes the low 30's. Ca 420's. I don't often check Mg, but it's typically around 1300 when I do. I don't target feed.
 

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Never had an issue ever! 8 out 10 times it promotes growth the other 2 it just skins over.. never lost a coral to this. Sps keepers have been doing this since the beggining.
Maybe I'll clip a tip and see what happens. I'm clearly out of the running for a winner, so I don't really have anything to lose at this point.

Other than a plating Monti which grows like a weed, and also a branching monti that's growing decent, the efflo is my first SPS and I'm pretty much clueless with how to care for them.
 
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Maybe I'll clip a tip and see what happens. I'm clearly out of the running for a winner, so I don't really have anything to lose at this point.

Other than a plating Monti which grows like a weed, and also a branching monti that's growing decent, the efflo is my first SPS and I'm pretty much clueless with how to care for them.
Don’t feel bad, mine hasn’t grown either lol.. some corals are just like that in people’s tanks.. I have high end pieces that grow great and I can’t keep a birdsnest alive to save my life.. haha..
 

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Don’t feel bad, mine hasn’t grown either lol.. some corals are just like that in people’s tanks.. I have high end pieces that grow great and I can’t keep a birdsnest alive to save my life.. haha..
Yep. The wife loves the look of GSP and I've tried 3 times to keep some. The first lasted a few months, the rest only a few weeks.

I fully expected the efflo to just shrivel up and die, so overall I'm just glad it's still alive.
 

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Maybe I'll clip a tip and see what happens. I'm clearly out of the running for a winner, so I don't really have anything to lose at this point.

Other than a plating Monti which grows like a weed, and also a branching monti that's growing decent, the efflo is my first SPS and I'm pretty much clueless with how to care for them.
If your doing montis thats a SPS, easier ones yes (MOST of the time) but still SPS. I could not keeps montis for a long time it seemed but I had this tri-valida acro that just thrived while my montis would slowly fade away. Testing and dosing for ALK and CAL is what changed everything for me. Started simple with kalk and then moved up to dosing individual ALK and CAL.
 

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If your doing montis thats a SPS, easier ones yes (MOST of the time) but still SPS. I could not keeps montis for a long time it seemed but I had this tri-valida acro that just thrived while my montis would slowly fade away. Testing and dosing for ALK and CAL is what changed everything for me. Started simple with kalk and then moved up to dosing individual ALK and CAL.
All-for-reef has up’d the game for me and my lil 40g breeder, finally did a ICP, my trace’s were all crap and made the switch. It’s good for a nano but idk the practicality of something larger. I did a second ICP and they weren’t ALL the way there so added their A and K elements by dosing a mil a day of each. IMO as long as you’re testing and dosing alk, cal and mag with the right light/flow, 10% weekly water changes(or a similar ratio) are king.
 

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I know I’m two days late and counts as a miss but here’s November anyway. Not doing much tank went through a rough patch but some corals are starting to get color back and growing again.

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December @Troylee @Jasonak @Mschmidt @Reefing102
Accidentally broke off two tips while doing a water change last week so hopefully that spurs some growth. I’m also thinking I put it in a bad spot this milks stylo is robbing all the water flow before it gets to the efflo
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not sure it matters much, but which do you want for December?
 

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Mine hasn’t grown at all in December. :(

I’ll get a pic hopefully today
 

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December @Troylee @Jasonak @Mschmidt @Reefing102
Accidentally broke off two tips while doing a water change last week so hopefully that spurs some growth. I’m also thinking I put it in a bad spot this milks stylo is robbing all the water flow before it gets to the efflo
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Is that bubble algae in your first pic? If so, I didn’t know they grew large like that? Mine is small, clustered. Doesn’t bother me much, I can manually get most when it comes u. As long as it’s not inhibiting coral growth. I’ve had coral, even acros, just grow over it at times. Good luck with the efflo.
 

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