The other sps is doing well outside of a small piece of Digi. Stylo, green goblin, golden rod, pink Cadillac acro, all seem to be doing well.
Yeah it has been a slow grower but has also encrusted the rock nicely so far in my tank. I got mine as a fresh cut frag from a huge colony so it took some time to adjust. I’ll likely just leave mine be for now.This has been a tough coral for me. I've had a frag in my tank for well over a year and while all other SPS frags are fully encrusted on the rock where they are placed the tort has just barely, and I mean barely started to show a slight amount of growth on the bottom. It won't die but as stagnant as it is I almost wish it would So I could pull it and move on lol.
This is mine. The mayagi tort upper right was a smaller frag than the the oregon when I put it in and it was placed in the tank after the Oregon tort. I don't get it
Same. They fragged an entire colony at the LFS and the frags there were growing like weeds. I guess it's just another coral that won't grow in my tank added to the list. I have another tank with a bunch of sps frags that are doing great. I may go ahead and put it on a plug and move it over. I'm not sure about sps but I've had some lps that deflate and start to wither away in one tank and I move them to another tank and they fully inflate in 24 hours. Maybe I'll have similar luck if I move this one.
Nice that’s rad and often is the right move! Sometimes I’ll move struggling coral into my lesser maintained tank and they flourish haha.
Not positive as I forgot to note when I purchased it but it has been way over a year. Probably time to move it. Think I'll do it soon as I have a couple other frags to glue down. We'll see how it does.
I would assume not enough lighting if light were the issue?… top half does look like it’s slowly browning.
Could be that or over abundant nutrients like to much aminos too.
Ok that’s interesting. I usually feed a frozen slurry of mysis, brine shrimp, pellets, reef roid, and aminos. Fish food and coral food in one cube but maybe it’s too much overall.
Awesome colony!!! That’s a good assessment I think. I have a huge toadstool leather and run the water with fair amount of nutrient.I have had OT in my reef for almost 20 years. Just my opinion, but I think it is highly specialized having been raised in aquariums for quite some time now so I feel it likes actinic lighting, super clean water, and hates leather corals. No proof just my gut instinct:
OT from circa 2000 in an Oregon LFS
My colony circa 2011
2017
Why actinic lighting? I thought you used to blast your colony with Metal halide lol.I have had OT in my reef for almost 20 years. Just my opinion, but I think it is highly specialized having been raised in aquariums for quite some time now so I feel it likes actinic lighting, super clean water, and hates leather corals. No proof just my gut instinct:
OT from circa 2000 in an Oregon LFS
My colony circa 2011
2017
