My red planet and strawberry shortcake are growing strangely. The strawberry shortcake continues to encrust, but does not grow upward. Plus it has these very spindly fingers that are growing horizontally or downward. Red planet is doing the same thing - except not encrusting. In the pic with the strawberry shortcake, my pink lemonade next to it is doing just fine. Any thoughts on what could be causing this? The only vertical part on the red planet is the original frag.
Red planet and strawberry shortcake - no upward growth
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Ashish Patel
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It must be happy with the lighting and flow on the rock, Also,. I think they just like to take up as much surface area as possible before focusing on vertical growth. This is why there is a benefit to buying 2" frags as they tend to grow upwards and out, where as 1" frags focus on growing on their bases for sometimes a year +
maybe they have reached its genetic height 
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C. Eymann
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Red planet and shortcake are notorious for basing out a bunch before showing much vertical growth, RP especially.
Most, but not all tabling acropora do this, I believe it is to ensure that future colony growth structure is adequately supported/anchored.
Most, but not all tabling acropora do this, I believe it is to ensure that future colony growth structure is adequately supported/anchored.
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