before and after... huge ugly monti digi.

[reefinmike]

i got this coral in the infancy of my reefkeeping hobby but it has proved to be a hardy and super fast growing but super ugly coral. i finally decided to move it last night so i could hide my super huge and super ugly seio 2600 back in a corner. ofcourse in the process of taking it out of my canopy and putting it in my sump i broke off two major branches so now it is a pile of branches waiting to be taken to the lfs.

june 2005

january 2005

august 2006

march 2007

 

[proboscis]

nice growth i love digitata's try to collect every color of em' then grow them out like the picture above also get rid of frags at local aquarium society meetings not just LFS take care

 

[Vanquish]

How about the colours of your other corals?? Maybe the nutrient levels in your tank is too high?

 

[SDguy]

Doesn't look much different than my ORA blue polyp digi. I suppose the polyps are technically blue, but overall the thing looks like yours.

 

[leoskee]

I wont treat that digi like a step child. You might be surprized what you really have. When I moved my tank to my new house I had two digi that looked just like yours. But before the move one was a green base/purple polyped digi and the other was a deep purple base/ purple polyps with lavender tips. I had them for about 3 months before they colored up like they did.

What are your water parameters and lighting?

 

[PL-Reef]

very nice growth!

 

[Horace]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9466901#post9466901 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SDguy
Doesn't look much different than my ORA blue polyp digi. I suppose the polyps are technically blue, but overall the thing looks like yours.

If your Blue Polyp digi looks like that, then you DEF have nutrient or other problems. Here is my german blue digi... as well as others:

German Blue Polyp Digi:

Purple Digi:

Pink/Orange Digi:

Orange Digi: (green one is to the right)

 

[Horace]

Here is what they looked like when I got those digis:

German Blue Digi:

Purple Digi:

 

[SDguy]

Your german blue polyp digi looks like it has a blue base also in those top pics. Mine does not. Mine looks just like the one on the ORA website. Blue polyps/tan base.

On my monitor here at least, your blue polyp digi looks EXACTLY like your purple digi, so I am confused.

 

[Horace]

Yeah the pictures are decieving, but they are different. The german blue does not have a purple skeleton and the polyps are differnt color too. My camera sucks *** so that is why they look the same. In person there is a very real difference between the two. You can especially tell when the polyps are retracted...

 

[SDguy]

So, mine is tan with light blue polyps. Is this not what I should expect? What is yours?

 

[goldenTee]

My 'Super ugly' brown, Green and Purple digi's grow extremely fast. It's amazing sometimes...

 

[Horace]

Here is a better picture of my blue polyp digi, if you look you can see the tan/whitish skeleton....

 

[Shawnts106]

hehe, Poop colored digitata... hehe

No in all seriousness, youd be surprized at what it may turn into under the right conditions...

although, there is a good possibility that you just have a plain, brown digi.

 

[Chaotic Reefer4u]

those are awesome growth shots...

 

[CeeGee]

dang Horace!!!!!!

Those are fabulous!

 

[Horace]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9471485#post9471485 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CeeGee
dang Horace!!!!!!

Those are fabulous!

Thx . Now I just need my acro colonies to get that big...

They def dont grow like my digis (weeds).

 

[reefinmike]

i have had this piece for 2 years and hasnt changed color a bit. i have plenty of other colorful acros.

 

[Horace]

Time to ditch that thing then lol

 

[reefinmike]

yeah, it was either keep it and have my pump visible or hide my pump a little and ditch it... i went for the latter.