While removing some GHA yesterday I accidentally bumped my green digitata. It was a fairly soft bump but it was still enough to frag the digi.
It got me wondering whether corals that are growing in a high phosphate environment use much ALK. My ALK is fairly steady but I don’t have tons of sticks yet so I can’t tell if ALK is being consumed. As easily as the green digitata broke I have to assume it’s making its skeleton almost entirely out of calcium phosphate.
My green and purple digis are growing nicely. Both of them are small frags. I have two encrusting montis as well. One is a Mardi Gras montipora and the other is a reverse Superman montipora.
It got me wondering whether corals that are growing in a high phosphate environment use much ALK. My ALK is fairly steady but I don’t have tons of sticks yet so I can’t tell if ALK is being consumed. As easily as the green digitata broke I have to assume it’s making its skeleton almost entirely out of calcium phosphate.
My green and purple digis are growing nicely. Both of them are small frags. I have two encrusting montis as well. One is a Mardi Gras montipora and the other is a reverse Superman montipora.