PAR Numbers for Rainbow Monti?

[jporter17]

Dana, I mistakenly placed a frag of rainbow montipora on the top of a rock in my old tank under 250W DE MH's. It was getting a lot of PAR and quickly grew over everything it came in contact with. I eventually had to remove it with bone cutters. Mine liked high PAR. I know, not much help, just my experience. I left it out of the new tank even though it is one of the most beautiful montiporas I have seen. JP

 

[Dana Riddle]

Dana, I mistakenly placed a frag of rainbow montipora on the top of a rock in my old tank under 250W DE MH's. It was getting a lot of PAR and quickly grew over everything it came in contact with. I eventually had to remove it with bone cutters. Mine liked high PAR. I know, not much help, just my experience. I left it out of the new tank even though it is one of the most beautiful montiporas I have seen. JP

Thank you! It's a pretty piece when colored up, perhaps it'll recover in time.

 

[NanoDJS]

How is your Monti faring?

 

[Dana Riddle]

How is your Monti faring?

It's growing but isn't as colorful as it once was. Before, it had green, orange and red polyps radily visible. Now just orange when I shine a blue LED flashlight on it.

 

[NanoDJS]

From my experience with that particular Monti the polyp color it correlates to the age of that section typically with new growth being green tracking and plating growth being orange/yellow, and the most mature sections being red though it will sometimes act like a red planet Acro and base out when trying to do a big growth spurt physically taking on one of the more significant colorations only at least that's been my experience, glad its growing I bet it will come around soon enough, ever dose aminos?

 

[Dana Riddle]

From my experience with that particular Monti the polyp color it correlates to the age of that section typically with new growth being green tracking and plating growth being orange/yellow, and the most mature sections being red though it will sometimes act like a red planet Acro and base out when trying to do a big growth spurt physically taking on one of the more significant colorations only at least that's been my experience, glad its growing I bet it will come around soon enough, ever dose aminos?

Thanks! Yes, I make a witch's brew to feed the corals. Amino acids, Selcon, yeast, two commercially available coral foods, vitamins, phytoplankton, etc.