how to make a pagoda cup grow?

[czieler]

I've had a purple pagoda cup for over a yr now...it looks really healthy..but it hasn't grown at all... what makes them grow? Should I target feed it mysis or something?

 

[floridareefs]

id like to know as well.

 

[Bennihanna]

They love cyclopeez and good alk and calcium.

 

[floridareefs]

well then! I have all those and dose them regularly, now all I need is a pagoda cup

 

[Bennihanna]

Get a frag of one. The little ones grow really fast. I started off one polyp of a dying pagoda from a friends maintanance account and have a colony twice the diameter of a silver dollar after a year and a half.

 

[tbass]

Mine loved the High light. never really fed it anything it grew at a tremdous rate. Then I moved it to a bigger tank and it died like most things in an aquarium.

 

[Bennihanna]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8113586#post8113586 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by tbass
it died like most things in an aquarium.

Being a former LFS employee, my heart drops when I here you say this. What do you mean by most things die???

 

[tbass]

Benni get a grip. how often have you read in a post that " help my coral is about dead Please help" I work with a fish store on the side also and recieved corals . a few of them didn't fair so well in the process of taking it from their envirorment and shipping . Its a known fact that sooner or later corals check out , and if your not watching your reef things can go south fast . I have watch 2 of the 3 clams just purchase about 2 months ago just die , they looked fine then all of a sudden Bamm, gone to that big black hole we call a hobby. And you have never once purchase a coral that die? If you said no , it would be hard to believe. anyways Just a general statement. Some people have it , I must not, some of my corals are doing great . cap corals are 4 x as big as when i got them other corals just dont do as well. I've placed fish in my reef seen them once or twice and well they packed up and left or there really really shy, anyways you get my drift. Most things evently die. Just like you and I. Its life benni or i guess you call it death. Just my point of view you dont have to like it or accept it . It wasnt meant in a meant way . Just facts.

 

[Bennihanna]

I can agree with you about fish and clams, they are very fragile and can go quickly. I have definately lost many a fish to the carpet and I have given up keeping small clams altoghether. However I know of many reefkeepers that don't see their tanks like a vase of cut flowers. They as I do have had the same corals for years thats right years. They grow and I cut them like a garden. I think a predestination that corals should just look pretty for a while but they are going to die anyway is terribly misguided and dangerous. It is this mentality that enviromentlalists sight when they try to stop the hobby. I will get off my soapbox now.