Cyphastrea. Meteor Shower or Superman

[Cptn Spaulding]

sfexplicit, how long did it take for yours to get that big? i have a ~1.5" frag thats starting to lightly encrust the entire disc its on. does it grow faster when its on rocks or sand bed?

 

[GoingPostal]

Mine didn't grow at all for months, I had it right under my 150watt halide, moved it lower, right by the glass to one side and it has taken off. Has covered half of the rock it is on now. Sold as MS

 

[sfexplicit]

sfexplicit, how long did it take for yours to get that big? i have a ~1.5" frag thats starting to lightly encrust the entire disc its on. does it grow faster when its on rocks or sand bed?

I wish that was mine but it's not. Mine is only a little bigger than a golfball. It has taken off for me on a small rock right on my sandbed at the far end of my tank slightly shaded.

 

[knockout]

sfexplicit, how long did it take for yours to get that big? i have a ~1.5" frag thats starting to lightly encrust the entire disc its on. does it grow faster when its on rocks or sand bed?

IME, it will do best when on rock to encrust on, low light seem to get deeper color, more light seems to dull the color down

 

[Flowbot]

Here are mine:

 

[OodleyBoodely]

I love the cyphastreas too and hope to add more when I can. I just got a frag of green cyphastrea called Toxic green. I have it under a temporary led lamp about a 5000K so the color is nothing like it was in the store. This one was very flourescent green!

 

[nUgZ]

Here's mine when I got it.

Here it is 3 months later.

 

[kingfisher62]

I Know this is an older thread but I just got one and enjoyed the info. Here is mine half hour after placing in the tank.

 

[AnT_D]

hello: Fun4:
My cyphastre s
from baby
08.2012

09.2013

04.2013

09.2013

 

[Hypnotize]

I just got two mothercolonies of this cyphastrea. It´s a dark Red with neon green polyps

 

[miserkris]

I just got two mothercolonies of this cyphastrea. It´s a dark Red with neon green polyps

That's Awesome where did u get it and what's it called?

This is my expensive jf Valentine's cyphastrea. Purple base and polyps

 

[AnT_D]

 

[RetroReef]

Could anyone tell me if they have or know of two different varieties of cyphastrea growing into each other? In my case meator shower and alien something(green base purple polyp?
Thanks