Speciosa grown from a frag

[Smite]

I love speciosa. I've only got 1 frag but it's been going for 4-5 months now. I really want to try another one but the price point to survival rate has me holding off for now. I purchased mine as a frag from a maricultured piece from my LFS back in October. I'll bump the thread later with a "then and now" picture even though not much has changed in growth. Color is looking okay though.

Thats a killer looking piece @coral reeftank I really like that color combo. Nice work

 

[Smite]

Bump with 4-5 months of settling on this speciosa frag
10/22

Today

 

[SamsReef]

Hopefully it will continue to be a grower for you.

good to see some specious taking off.

Sam

 

[alecj]

here is one that has grown a bit sense i originally acquired it

 

[Epic Aquaculture]

Here's a pic I just took. It's a little lower angle, but you can see that it has now encrusted over the edge of the frag plug.

Updated pic. I took a small frag off of it to start a grow out colony.

 

[BirdFish5000]

Updated pic. I took a small frag off of it to start a grow out colony.

Beautiful! My wallet hurts just looking at it, lol

 

[Charlie the Reefer]

Updated pic. I took a small frag off of it to start a grow out colony.

Does this have a name? Nice piece! What PAR around you have it in? And would you say high or medium flow?

Thanks! I’m getting my first speciosa soon.

 

[Epic Aquaculture]

Does this have a name? Nice piece! What PAR around you have it in? And would you say high or medium flow?

Thanks! I’m getting my first speciosa soon.

This is CC Flaming Sunrise. It's under about 400-450 PAR. High flow.

 

[Macdaddynick1]

This is CC Flaming Sunrise. It's under about 400-450 PAR. High flow.

Just out of curiosity, do you dose or test your iron and manganese?

 

[Epic Aquaculture]

Just out of curiosity, do you dose or test your iron and manganese?

Yes we run the Reef Moonshiners method so those are dosed daily.

 

[moosevandyke]

Here is a bad iPhone pic of my flaming sunrise about 3 months starting to encrust on base

 

[ryshark]

Here is a bad iPhone pic of my flaming sunrise about 3 months starting to encrust on base

That looks just like my SBB Frozen Voltron.

 

[DJTJ]

My Malaysian speciosa encrusted the plug completely and grew a bit! (Top right)

 

[djf91]

Keep it low....doesn't need a lot of light 200 par or so. It can handle high flow but will grow in a tighter type bushy form. If you want long winding branches than keep the flow lower

It baffles me that these don’t come into the US anymore.

 

[Kaneohekid]

I’d say speciosa has been a little difficult to grow as well. Very slow and temperamental. Been growing this frag out from a wild colony for little more than a year.

 

[moosevandyke]

That looks just like my SBB Frozen Voltron.

it does! I am pretty sure this was sold to me as flaming sunrise. I can upload a new photo it has turned a deeper blue the past month

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

That looks just like my SBB Frozen Voltron.

There in is the LOL!!!!

 

[ryshark]

There in is the LOL!!!!

What?

 

[maxwell]

Hi , I know this is a long shot is this nib a speciosa it was off a wild colony that didnt survive shipping i was told