Sps Spotlight: Rainbow Montipora

[revhtree]

Somewhere over the rainbow monti's are blue...and orange...and red...and purple...

Care Level: Easy in SPS tank!
Lighting Requirements: High- Metal Halides
Water Flow: Moderate
Aggressiveness: Peaceful
Range: Tonga
Family:
Water Conditions: 74-80 F; sg 1.023-1.025; pH 8.1-8.4; dKH 8-12

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Please share your photos of this beautiful monti!

 

[Rockadile]

I have hd several of these and the polyps always turn red.

 

[nvdiz]

When the polyps mature, they turn green.

Thats probably why the outsides of that coral are almost always red.

 

[revsgirl]

Beautiful!

 

[wysiwyg]

very beautiful piece. amazing photo

 

[BillyC]

How high up does this coral have to be in an sps tank (250w HQI) to keep colors?

 

[Trevor40]

This is an amazing coral. Im always surprised watching the colors change as it grows. The orange polyps on mine are my favorite. I have this one and a superman monti in differant depths and they both grow just as fast. The rainbow is high and the superman is low

 

[CJO]

When the polyps mature, they turn green.

Thats probably why the outsides of that coral are almost always red.

It also depends on the lighting it gets. The less light, the more prone they are to staying orange.

You also have to be careful with this (and other montiporas) as it can overgrow most other corals. The only ones I have found that resist them are mushrooms.

CJ

 

[Hawain_Rob]

Nice

 

[DLuce510]

I would love to get those colors back! Mine unfortunately just turned purple and green with a very thin Orange rim. Not to mention its about to loose a battle against the mystic sunset!

 

[Hawain_Rob]

Why did it turn that color? I just picked up a frag of it and a superman Monti and mystic sunset. The rainbow being me favorite!!!

 

[Anirban]

Here is mine...

 

[revhtree]

Beautiful!

 

[Highgrade]

Here is one of mine. Little blurry. I have 3 frags from the same piece and they all seem to be a bit different in color and growth. All 3 are placed at different depths. Pretty cool Monti for $10 frags.

 

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[dakoop]

So how high up the tank should these be for best color with radions?

 

[30reef]

Even though I don't have an SPS tank, I absolutely have always loved the rainbow Monti, really nice specimen too have

 

[aereaus]

Not sure which i like better -- my rainbow or my jedi mind trick. Love me some monti

 

[aereaus]

So how high up the tank should these be for best color with radions?

Depends but i keep mine like 8" from the surface. I run high growth on the xr30w pros gen 3

 

[BossGT911]

if anybody wants to send a frag somewhere let me know