What's the fastest growing coral in your tank right now?

[dlaird76]

The only thing that grows quickly for me is my credit card bill and my next tank isn't even wet yet

 

[Screwgunner]

I started with one head of pulsating exenia and now!

 

[shakacuz]

No Chalice grows quickly.....dang you, what's your secret

hollywood stunner is known to be the easiest/fastest grower next to the red monti cap.

 

[ClownSchool]

This monti started in late June from a coral swap as a single piece (first pic). It later broke into three pieces in an aquascape collapse (pics 2 through 4). Aside from the other two pieces, the frag plug shows it’s growth over three months.

 

[MaxTremors]

Fastest overal: pulsing Xenia (which is a given and IMO doesn’t really count).
Other than that, here are the fastest growing in each category:

Softies: tie between Rhodactis indosinensis and Ricordea yuma, both are splitting/dropping babies at about the same rate. Also, zoanthids are growing pretty fast.

LPS: tie between several; Favia sp (Christmas/war coral), blastomussa wellsi, micromussa lordhowensis, Duncanopsammia axifuga, Turbinaria (I believe) peltata, and Caulastraea furcata.

SPS: hands down green birdsnest (Seriatopora sp)

Slowest grower, and this is kind of perplexing, is a Hollywood stunner chalice (Echinopora lamellosa).

 

[SaltwaterandLime]

Strangley my slowest grower is mushrooms.

 

[boacvh]

Definitely this guy

 

[Xanthurum]

@Marc2952 No I don't dose any aminos. I used to dose acropower but I have not used it for a couple of months now. I feed heavy and try to focus on stability. The crazy thing is I have some sps that are constantly struggling but most of mine are doing great. I have about 45 different sps and for some reason the Splice loves my tank and it has been getting better each and every month.

 

[Whispers]

Miami hurricane chalice

 

[shadow_k]

My zoas

 

[rknapp]

Finger leathers (devils hand) that I just can’t stop from calving constantly. If I did not clean up and remove them it would take over my whole tank.

 

[KC's CNC Creations]

No Chalice grows quickly.....dang you, what's your secret

Hollywood Stunner grows at an amazing rate. You can see the date in the geotag….. from 3” to over 12” in roughly 100 days.

 

[X-37B]

Most of my corals have decent growth but the one below is leading the pack on fastest growth.
This was a small wild colony I put in 8/20.
And today 14 months later.

 

[Whispers]

Miami hurricane chalice

 

[WVNed]

Dont like xenia? How about Blue Ridge. Grows like weeds.

 

[Dallascowboys16]

Let's just say, I had a pulsing xenia problem.

 

[Catnip885]

My red acans have baby polyps popping up all around it making I my fastest grower right now but I am happy with the encrusting of my sps

 

[ClownSchool]

Let's just say, I had a pulsing xenia problem.

If it’s still a problem, I saw a great video on managing them. A guy used a metal, re-usable drinking straw, a rubber band wrapped around it to function as a gasket, and stuck it into his water-change hose. He would scrape the rock with the metal straw in areas they were invading during his water change and suck them up! It was simple and brilliant.

 

[ClownSchool]

My red acans have baby polyps popping up all around it making I my fastest grower right now but I am happy with the encrusting of my sps

Oooh, nice piece!

 

[Catnip885]

Oooh, nice piece!

Thanks! We was part of a frag pack from aqua sd don't know what he is called but I am very fond of him I have been cheering him on the last month