Abnormal ??! Polyp extension

[Duarte Conceicao]

Greetings.

I have attemped to look for an explanation for the fact of most of my corals have an huge extension of polyps.

Friends visiting my aquarium also comments the same.

Is there any plausible explanation?

Here are two examples

Obrigado

DC

 

[Sk8r]

#2 is an a. yongei, I think, and mine and its parent in another site both look like that. I don't know about the other one: it certainly looks happy and healthy.

 

[twon8]

do you use natural sea water?
i have pe like that; what you have to remember is different acros have different size polyps.

 

[Aquaduck]

Those look like my corals. I have similar polyp extension when the lights are on. At night they reach out even farther. It's crazy. Some over 1/4 inch long. I have about 3700 gph of flow in my 90 gallon. Maybe that is why?

 

[smcooler]

looks good to me, mine look the same at night its even better with food in the water look out.


stan

 

[shred5]

I was always told the samething about this coral... my avatar..

Dave

 

[MrPike]

Run Ozone?

I noticed a huge increase in my PE after I started.

 

[Duarte Conceicao]

Hi!

Thanks for all the answers. Regarding you questions here it goes

do you use natural sea water?i have pe like that; what you have to remember is different acros have different size polyps.

I use NSW, and that's the only kind i'm using since the beggining of the aquarium. Regarding the diferent species of acropora and their polyp size, unfortunally here in Portugal they sell them always without a proper ID, and i don't have a reference book like the one from Veron to help me id them

Run Ozone?

Nops!

Regards
Duarte

 

[twon8]

do your friends use nsw?

 

[shred5]

I don't think those have abnormal Polyp extension, I just think those corals just have larger polylps than other acros like the one I have in my pic.. I have gave frags of that coral to other people and they see the samething... That coral in your second pic typically looks like that in most tanks that I see it in..

Dave

 

[kj5432]

Good PE= happy coral
happy coral=good PE

 

[GMGQ]

I agree. It's not like the polyps are trying to Crawl Out of the skeleton because they're not happy

PE is a GOOD thing!

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7222021#post7222021 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kjeanes
Good PE= happy coral
happy coral=good PE

 

[Mongoose]

Duarte is just showing off !!!!!!!


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[DaddyJax]

Wow...Where can I get a pink coral like the one in Mongoose's avatar? Talk about polyp extension!!!

 

[damienkee]

that is healthy & pretty nice PE.....

 

[Duarte Conceicao]

Ok!

I'm fully convinced Thanks to all for the answers.

Most of the corals in the tank also show off that kind of beahviour.

It's a 8 months tank mostly made of small frags i've been able to trade or buy from friends.

Regards
Duarte

 

[kevensquint]

I hope we don't have to buy the equipement that Duarte uses to get those results , check out his sig. $$$

 

[marilynrn711]

I am jealous. I have to get this coral beauty out of my tank somehow so I can have PE again as only at night!

 

[Nyyanks154]

Hmmm your coral beauty is inhibiting your polyp expension? I was in denial about my flame....Guess hes getting moved to the smaller softie tank!

 

[marilynrn711]

Yeah, I was in denial about the coral beauty too, until I caught him ripping the flesh off of one coral.

I think catching him is going to be impossible. I also need to catch a bi-dottyback!