Thanks Rev!
Try grow it out, see how it turns out, looks like it could be an insane chalice!
Getting ready to put this beauty under the saw. Not sure what to do with the little grafted portion there....
I just may do that. However, if I frag the graft, then I could have the graft growing in 2 directions instead of just one….decisions, decisions
Thank you my friend! I think I am finally past all my previous struggles. I have been doing a moonshiners hybrid dosing regimen and ICP every month. Things are really starting to take off now!
Well, with the price of salt mix going thru the roof lately, I needed to cut back on water changes. I used to do 14% weekly. Now I only do 12% every 2 or 3 weeks. I was also getting critically low on some elements like iodine, manganese, flourine, etc. So I initially started dosing trace elements via Tropic Marin’s 3 part hybrid system with BRS soda ash and BRS calcium mixes. After a couple ICP tests I seen the vanadium skyrocketing as well as a few other elements staying high while some elements were still critically low. So what I’ve done is bring the dosing of the Tropic Marin down to half of what I started at. I then purchased all the elements that were critically low based on the best price. So I have some Moonshiners elements, some AF, some ATI. I dose most of these elements every weekend and I dose Manganese and iodine daily. It has been working very well for me and I don’t have 15-20 elements to dose every single day like the full moonshiners system suggests.
I’m trying to dial in the daily dosed elements so for the last 3 months I’ve done 3 ICP. Getting ready to send another one in next week. With the small amount of water changes I’m doing, the adjustments to the elements are so minor I don’t think it matters.
It’s been a bit slow to get going but it seems like it’s picking up here lately. The colors are really coming in on it too!
It was only in about 225 (indirect) when I took that pic. I moved it to about 275-300 but it was directly under one side of a G4. I am assuming the direct light was too much for it. It really stinks because it was colored about the best I had ever had one.
Ya, going thru system difficulties is never going to be helpful when you’re growing a finicky coral like it seems to be. I’m glad yours is looking like it’s turning around!
