Red Dragon Placement?

[NVTE]

I just got Red Dragon frag. Where is good spot to put? light?flow?
I have 4x54W HOT5 Powermodule on top of my 40breeder.

 

[Troylee]

Bottom 2/3rds of the tank.... It doesn't like much light from my exp with it... Flow moderate to high..;)

 

[-Oz]

I have mine getting pretty strong light (~350 ar) and pretty strong flow.

 

[darryl_v]

oh....thats nice. Did you grow that from a frag? If so what size to start and how long did it take?

Cant figure out where the red in red dragon came from though.....most pictures I see are definitely not red.....I also have a frag.

 

[slk55r]

mine is high up with medium flow.

 

[Tenacious716]

IME Red Dragon can handle a good amount of light and under the right conditions will develop purple growth tips. I wouldn't blast it with flow though.

 

[iReefer]

My got pretty dark pink red under strong lighting and med flow

 

[NVTE]

Thanks guys.
I start with medium light and medium flow. move it up when it need more light.

 

[davelink]

oh....thats nice. Did you grow that from a frag? If so what size to start and how long did it take?

Cant figure out where the red in red dragon came from though.....most pictures I see are definitely not red.....I also have a frag.

cant figure out where it came from as far as lineage? it came from tony chang i believe, aka coral in the reef. then he gave a frag to tyree, so alot of people think its a tyree LE

 

[davelink]

congrats on ur frag too daniel, its a nice piece. ill be over soon with your red hornet!

 

[Troylee]

It gets purple growth tips regadless of the lighting ime.... Start in the middle if you feel like it can handle more go for it... I found best growth and the same color about 6" off my sand bed tank is 24" tall... Up high the growth slowed and the color lightened up...

 

[darryl_v]

cant figure out where it came from as far as lineage? it came from tony chang i believe, aka coral in the reef. then he gave a frag to tyree, so alot of people think its a tyree LE

Oh sorry.....I meant to say can't figure out where the NAME red dragon came from. As in it never seems red to me.

I know where the coral came from. A local reefer here in Ontario gave a huge amount to ReefRaft (a LFS) and Reef Raft sold some to Coral in the Reef. Soon after that Steve Tyree made it an LE on his website.

 

[davelink]

chyup chyup.. so u know lol...

 

[-Oz]

Hey Darryl. I grew it from a 3/4" frag from CITR 1 year ago. Each of the branches in my shot are around 4" tall now.

 

[NVTE]

congrats on ur frag too daniel, its a nice piece. ill be over soon with your red hornet!

Thanks bro. Sure. give me a call when you have a chance.

It gets purple growth tips regadless of the lighting ime.... Start in the middle if you feel like it can handle more go for it... I found best growth and the same color about 6" off my sand bed tank is 24" tall... Up high the growth slowed and the color lightened up...

Thanks Troylee.