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Acropora Gardener
I was in London yesterday, but stayed only for a few hours (remember I offered to lend you my lux meter the other day).
I have fragged the coral you are interested in heavily three times in the past three months, as the pictures show, to raise funds for the purchase of my new Deltec skimmer. It needs to recover before I will frag it again. When that happens, we will work something out. Its growth rate is very good though. So, hopefully, you should not wait too long. If you look at the photo below, the new growth is nearly 2" (i.e. 45 mm). I pruned that particular branch on 15th March. It is not bad is it? :eek2: However, it is likely that it requires considerably more time to reach the same thickness of the original frag. The new growth shape resembles a man's middle finger sticking up in the air though:hmm4:. I am not happy with that.
Anecdotally, my experience suggests that water flow plays a major part in the thickness of staghorn coral branches. For example, the mother colonies of both A. aspera and A. copiosa were in my friend's tank originally. They did not have thick branches at all. My friend did not provide as aggressive water flow as I do in my tank.
I have fragged the coral you are interested in heavily three times in the past three months, as the pictures show, to raise funds for the purchase of my new Deltec skimmer. It needs to recover before I will frag it again. When that happens, we will work something out. Its growth rate is very good though. So, hopefully, you should not wait too long. If you look at the photo below, the new growth is nearly 2" (i.e. 45 mm). I pruned that particular branch on 15th March. It is not bad is it? :eek2: However, it is likely that it requires considerably more time to reach the same thickness of the original frag. The new growth shape resembles a man's middle finger sticking up in the air though:hmm4:. I am not happy with that.
Anecdotally, my experience suggests that water flow plays a major part in the thickness of staghorn coral branches. For example, the mother colonies of both A. aspera and A. copiosa were in my friend's tank originally. They did not have thick branches at all. My friend did not provide as aggressive water flow as I do in my tank.