i love your tank. great scape and all the different colors from the corals. how long did it take the frags to get where they are now from 1''?
Thanks. The scape needs to be reworked on one pillar unfortunately. Also, my skimmer went so right now I'm going skimmer free... hopefully the new one will be in by Friday, it is fingers crossed for the time being. The corals look alright but I'm going to watch closely.
Regarding growth, some grow slow, some grow fast.
July 2011 Prostrata (fast grower)
May 2012 Prostrata
July 2011 Sunset Milli (pretty fast grower)
May 2012 Sunset Milli
July 2011 Strawberry Shortcake (slow grower)
May 2012 Strawberry Shortcake
July 2011 Green Stag (very fast grower)
The green stag can be seen in my FTS on the first page in May 2012, top left. It is suffering at the moment. It broke off my pillar and has been slowly receding at the base, so I'm going to break it off at the base and re-epoxy to my revised pillar, after I have my protein skimmer up and running.
A lot of 1" frags in my opinion will start to encrust, and encrust they will for months (like my strawberry shortcake), then eventually start to grow out and up. Others, like my prostrata, just grow out with very little encrusting. The green slimer is a prime example of that.