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Hello chaps, before we begin I'd like to share a bit of backstory.
This is my 6th month in the hobby, and 3rd month of reefing. I get a lot of my animals and plants from a local fishstore run by a seasoned fellow named Mike.
Mike has decades of experiance in fishkeeping and is rarely mistaken, he used to work on tanks for movie sets years back.
Anyway, I recently purchased a good sized Montipora Digi with bright green polyps for about 50 dollars. I've had it for a while and love it quite a bit, as this is my first SPS coral, but I've noticed something peculiar.
The branches on this digi are disturbingly thin, maybe a 1/4 of an in the thicker areas. It's quite brittle as well, I've managed to break off a few pieces while simply moving it (which later were glued to frag plugs and placed back in the tank until my frag tank is set up) I've never seen a digi this thin before, even online.
I'm curious as to what my fishkeeping elders think of this, and if there's any way to encourage thicker branch growth.
Thanks.
This is my 6th month in the hobby, and 3rd month of reefing. I get a lot of my animals and plants from a local fishstore run by a seasoned fellow named Mike.
Mike has decades of experiance in fishkeeping and is rarely mistaken, he used to work on tanks for movie sets years back.
Anyway, I recently purchased a good sized Montipora Digi with bright green polyps for about 50 dollars. I've had it for a while and love it quite a bit, as this is my first SPS coral, but I've noticed something peculiar.
The branches on this digi are disturbingly thin, maybe a 1/4 of an in the thicker areas. It's quite brittle as well, I've managed to break off a few pieces while simply moving it (which later were glued to frag plugs and placed back in the tank until my frag tank is set up) I've never seen a digi this thin before, even online.
I'm curious as to what my fishkeeping elders think of this, and if there's any way to encourage thicker branch growth.
Thanks.