Baby Stick

[Deton8it]

On my local forum I have been documenting the growth of a little stick since 14 June '15. I decided to share it with all of you too. My son's tank suffered a crash in May '15 and it killed his acros. A month later I was in his room and I saw a very tiny piece of Scripps still alive. I cut it off, attached it to a rock, and started the documentation. Every month I took a picture with no zoom and a picture with 4.0 zoom using my Galaxy 3S. I now use a Galaxy 6. Now, lets bring you guys up to speed.


John

 

[Deton8it]

14 June

Scripps frag on tweezers

On rock

Placed in tank

 

[Deton8it]

 

[Deton8it]

11 July

 

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15 August

 

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11 September

 

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11 October

 

[Deton8it]

15 November I only took one picture this month.

 

[Deton8it]

13 December

 

[Deton8it]

14 January
Now it starts growing horizontal instead of vertical.

 

[Deton8it]

15 February
More horizontal growth

 

[Deton8it]

14 March
I added a third view, slightly down to capture the horizontal growth.

Only a 3 zoom

 

[Deton8it]

Now you are all caught up too.

 

[karimwassef]

awesome!

 

[richard56]

That is pretty amazing considering what you started with. Great idea to photo track it ......... Thanks for sharing

 

[COENONE]

Pretty cool

 

[Deton8it]

Thank you. This has been pretty fun actually. There is a Birdsnest growing out on the left side of the rock. You can see it's growth also. That thing is growing like a weed. Near the end though (currently) it looks like crap. I had something knock it down repeatedly on to some coral that sits below it. It has been stung quite a bit.

John

 

[karimwassef]

I'm always amazed at the ability of the SPS to recover in a good tank. Here's my purple stylophora's recovert from a LFS rescue as a little brown stick.

<a href="http://s1062.photobucket.com/user/karimwassef/media/Animation_zpswsubmblg.gif.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t496/karimwassef/Animation_zpswsubmblg.gif" border="0" alt=" photo Animation_zpswsubmblg.gif"/></a>

From

<a href="http://s1062.photobucket.com/user/karimwassef/media/12FC3480-F6AD-4B01-874E-79C0C9919307_zpsqan5ta0u.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t496/karimwassef/12FC3480-F6AD-4B01-874E-79C0C9919307_zpsqan5ta0u.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 12FC3480-F6AD-4B01-874E-79C0C9919307_zpsqan5ta0u.jpg"/></a>

And today

<a href="http://s1062.photobucket.com/user/karimwassef/media/4A58A603-EB53-4948-9B2B-7E9B74727B5B_zps8jwy6qaq.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/t496/karimwassef/4A58A603-EB53-4948-9B2B-7E9B74727B5B_zps8jwy6qaq.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 4A58A603-EB53-4948-9B2B-7E9B74727B5B_zps8jwy6qaq.jpg"/></a>

 

[solidcore]

Wow super growth

 

[karimwassef]

Nothing compared to the OP's before and after. Barely looks like there were any polyp's on that toothpick in the first picture

and then