I bought a very small frag of blue acorpora gomezi back in October and am having very slow growth. All parameters are good and all other coral are growing just fine. I have it placed in a high flow/high light. I moved it around a few time to find a place it likes and it seems to be happy just not growing very fast. Color is good and polyps are extending. All corals get spot feed 3 times a week. Can anyone give me some advice on how to stimulate growth. Other frags I put in the tank at the same time have more than tripled in size.
Blue acorpora gomezi
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rigleautomotive
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I am not sure who has a gomezi that grows fast,but IME they are one of the slowest acroporas out there,right there with the Purple Monster and Phills Granulosa.I have also had a couple hang on for a few months(stagnant with good PE) and eventually stn for no apparent reason.I should clarify that these were all wild or maricultured.GL
rigleautomotive
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Darryl
Yours looks great.I would love to have one of these make it into a colony.It would be an awesome coral.The color is nice on yours.Mine would seem to get lighter as the months went on and eventually stn from the base.I attempted to save it by fragging off necriosis and reglueing but lost the battle in the end.Remarkably,this occured with 3 different colonies over the course of a few years time.I dunno,maybe my system is too clean or too low nutrient to keep one of these.Seems like the wilds are looking for more plankton or microbial life then we are able to supply it with in our reefs .I dunno
Yours looks great.I would love to have one of these make it into a colony.It would be an awesome coral.The color is nice on yours.Mine would seem to get lighter as the months went on and eventually stn from the base.I attempted to save it by fragging off necriosis and reglueing but lost the battle in the end.Remarkably,this occured with 3 different colonies over the course of a few years time.I dunno,maybe my system is too clean or too low nutrient to keep one of these.Seems like the wilds are looking for more plankton or microbial life then we are able to supply it with in our reefs .I dunno
Atomikk
SPS OG
That is how it goes with A. gomezi. I have one that has 4 small branchlets, and it has been growing over 1 year. High light, and high flow is where it likes it best.
Mine is maricultured too. Im glad you are having the same slow growth Dan. I was being to get worried when the OP said that they are fast growers. Im in good company I guess
Here is a pic of mine from January...it has grown a little but looks pretty much the same.
If mine keeps growing at this pace it will be 10 years before it gets that big. Guess I read the wrong articles. I am glad to hear mine is not the only one growing slow.
Thanks for the help
dvanacker
DID I SOUNDS SMRT??
Thats a nice one Vlad. Good pic. Looks very similar to mine. Did you get it from NAFB by chance?
kyles 90g reef
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that coral has some beautiful coral to it. very bright blue
Atomikk
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psychostieg
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I have found that fliping sps corals horizontal will increase growth rate up to 150%...... I routinely flip'em horiz......?they go into some panic growth mode.... Within 2-3 wks, you'll see multiple new off-shoots growing..... Some 1/2 in to 1" per month...... After the growth takes off, I flip it back upright and the new arms that had grown then become horizontal themselves causing the same thing again....... I had a green acro that wouldn't grow...... I did this and it has doubled in size in 6 mo.....seriously!!
5h3rW1N
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An older picture of the gomezi.
now that is a nice gomezi ++1
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