How well is my Acro growing here?

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How is the growth rate on this Acro

  • Surprised it's survived this long.

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  • Slow but steady

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  • About normal

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  • Quick grower

    Votes: 4 66.7%
  • Spreading like a weed.

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I picked up this un-named acro from a LFS 6 months ago, and it's the oldest acro have in my tank. Tank itself isn't quite a year and a half old.
This tank is my first serious attempt at doing a full-on reef tank, I'm pretty curious how you guys think I'm doing.
I know it's a bit pale right now, this is due to chronic nitrate/phosphate deficiency in the tank that I was struggling with.

Top photo is from April 16, bottom photo is from October 28th. That puts it just over six months worth of growth.
I'm happy that it's growing, and it is pretty much always looking like it's happy and healthy, but I don't know how to judge if I'm actually doing well here.
For 6 months of growth is this slow? normal? fast?

-Hans



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I'm new to saltwater and never had any sps but from what I've read and seen pictures of others sps growth, then yours has grown quite some size in the 6 months so you doing something right ^_^
 
And can see how your flow is just by the picture with all polyps facing one way and one nearly horizontal unless they reaching towards the light if you stuck it on the rocks at slight angle ^_^
 
Definitely appreciate the feedback. It's finally started branching out the past few weeks, with the branches starting to extend. Until then it just seemed to keep sprouting new nubs in every direction and not really gaining much size.

I'm pretty excited to see what it grows out to over the next six months.
 

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