Montipora setosa

[reeflady577]

So I've had a fairly large montipora setosa for about 6 months. I have it under ATI T5's and it has good flow. The color is really good. My problem is it just doesn't grow. I can't figure out why. All my other montis have good growth.

Any advice?

 

[returnofsid]

Frag it! Seriously. Cut a lil frag from several of the branches. This will encourage growth.

What are your tank parameters? Make sure that your Calcium, Alkalinity and Magnesium are all at appropriate levels and in balance.

 

[florida reef]

I would check my magnesium and calcium levels. Also, you said you have a t-5 fixture, how high is the setosa placed? I have mine in the top 1/3 of my tank and it seems to be growing nicely.

 

[Troylee]

sounds normal to me... always been a real slow grower for me...

 

[Hyprviperx]

I love setosa... Thanks for posting this question because I will be following the responses closely

 

[Russellaqua]

sounds normal to me... always been a real slow grower for me...

+1

From what I've read and experienced it's one of the slower growing Montis, but it should be growing some or something it wrong.

 

[droblack]

Mine grows pretty fast actually. Check parameters, something may be stunting it.

 

[reeflady577]

My parameters are all good. Do you think there may be faster and slow growing setosa? I have it under pretty high light but it doesn't seem to mind.

 

[secretreefer]

i have a good sized colony and mines grows fairly quickly. i dose A,B with aminos and vit c. it's halfway up from the bottom, running 250w 15k phoenix bulb geismann neptune-pro with reefbrite and T5 supplement. med/high flow.

 

[myzislow]

+1

From what I've read and experienced it's one of the slower growing Montis, but it should be growing some or something it wrong.

Actually the setosa is one of the fastest growing montis I've ever owned, and many report the same. The orenji on the other hand is painfully slow. If its the real tyree one it should grow rather quick once settled. Keep in mind there have been a ton of recent imports that look really similar....

 

[SaltWaterDave]

My setosa is a pretty slow grower for me. I have it under 8x54W T5's in the top 1/4 of the tank. I've fragged it a few times, but still a slow grower IMO.

 

[swannyson7]

It's a fairly slow grower for me as well. I'd say it's the slowest of all the montis I have including rainbow, superman, sunset, pokerstar, undata, and jedi mind trick (and of course montipora capricornis)

 

[SaltWaterDave]

Mine really encrusted more than anything before it pushed out any branches.

 

[SteezySPS]

increase flow for it? Flow affects the growth form, I dont see why it wouldnt help with growth rate

 

[secretreefer]

feb 28 2010

jul 19 2011 fragged 3 times.

 

[fsu1dolfan]

I agree with the fragging response!! I had my piece for a while and was always a slow grower and pretty sensitive to water conditions and surrounds corals in the beginning. Once it adapted it started growing very well....i accidently broke of a few pieces and the thing has exploded in growth lately.

 

[Tab28]

It seems the growth rate of this monti is as polarzing as the tunze/vortech debate. I love the color of this coral, by price, at least for a monti, it seems it may be a slow grower.

 

[Laird]

All my monties literally grow 10 times as fast as my setosa. A year and a half ago I got frags of 4 different monies all about a 1 square inch. The setosa has hardly grown at all in that time and the others have grown to be huge colonies. I've tried moving it to different areas of the tank and different conditions but nothing seems to help.

 

[darryl_v]

I've got tons of montis as well and setosa is the slowest grower for me too. Its the nicest one IMO too...dang it.

 

[AcroholicReefer]

it took mine a while but now it is encrusting nicely on the rockwork. Sometimes when corals are in dormit, you can cut a small snip off of the piece and it can kick it back into heterosis. Just make sure you don't end up with too small of a setosa frag when you do this.