Growing yourself some real-estate

[Nor'easter Reefer]

I've heard plenty about growing something like monti-caps to give yourself some real estate later on, but have never really seen a good, established reef sitting on top of a monti. Anyone got some photos to share? Really interested to see it

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

Bump.

Surely someone's for some good photographs

 

[sjfishguy]

On the left is a big chunk of live rock, on the right is a big chunk of live rock, and the “bridge” between the red lines is actually 6 years of old, dead, monti cap growth. and everything growing on it between the red lines is growing on that old thick multiple tiers of monti cap skeleton I grew myself :). I will try and get a top down pic tomorrow

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

On the left is a big chunk of live rock, on the right is a big chunk of live rock, and the “bridge” between the red lines is actually 6 years of old, dead, monti cap growth. and everything growing on it between the red lines is growing on that old thick multiple tiers of monti cap skeleton I grew myself :). I will try and get a top down pic tomorrow

Awesome! That's actually very similar to what i think i want to try to do. I have 2 very large rock structures that I was considering growing some month's to span between them. I wasnt really sure if I started at one rock if it'd attach to the other side though. Is your actually attached both sides? My gaps kinda far so I thought I'd basically stick a rock in the middle and grow a monti cap from point A to B and then from B to C. If that makes sense. Basically have a long bridge with a support in the middle.

 

[sjfishguy]

No, mine was growing in a different orientation in my 120, it died back due to an alk swing and when I transferred everything over to the new 180 I turned that rock to make the monti bridge

 

[Nor'easter Reefer]

No, mine was growing in a different orientation in my 120, it died back due to an alk swing and when I transferred everything over to the new 180 I turned that rock to make the monti bridge

Yea that makes sense! I have one monti colony growing right now that I intend to sacrifice for acro territory, and might frag it or pickup a couple other colors to do the same thing elsewhere. I like the look of "reef on reef" where it looks very natural and everything's built on old reef vs piles of rock. Very nice reef you have!