plating monti dominant tank

[dnsfpl]

anyone happen to saw any pix of plating monti dominant tank?

need some idea, esp rockscape, before starting my new project

thanks

 

[frankpayne32]

Great idea. Wish I could show you a pic of such a tank as they are my favorite coral. Here is my orange monti cap that is 12" in diameter that I grew from a quarter sized frag.

It's even better when you have different colors growing together.

 

[xristos]

Nice pictures, good work Frank

 

[Crusty Old Shellback]

I'm working on mine now. Slowly finding the right corals.

Overall tank shot.

Orange Monti Cap. About 18" across now. Started as a small frag. On left side of tank.

Idaho Grape. Again started as small frag. On right side of tank.

I'm now looking for red, green w/ purple rim and a yellow scroll corals. Also any other colors I can find. The large rock on the righ as now had a bunch of Zoa frags attached. Waiting for them to grow out as well.

 

[droth335]

I really like the look of the multi colors intertwined like that! I have found the challenge with the plating montis is they grow so fast that I know I didn't plan on them growing that large and tended to shade vast tracts of our tank so I have fragged them back significantly. I would definitely arrange them differently if I had known then what I know now!

Here is a shot of a green monti that grew to this size in about a year from a potato chip sized frag (sorry for the bad pic from top). Starting to shade one of my wife's prize scolys!

Another green cap I fragged because it was growing too close to the glass to clean (again in about a year from a small frag)

A purple cap that we've had to frag the heck out of - not the best pic - this was after fragging it from overgrowing its hyndophora neighbor and also had to break several large frags off the front as it was shading several more corals.

Another view of it from the top (again, crappy pic with light reflection but hopefully you get the idea):

A partial FTS to put in perspective and show the orange cap in this pic is my wife's pride and joy so no way would I frag it - plus, for whatever reason, this one has grown up and hasn't attached to any rock so has been mobile and we've moved it a couple of times as it has grown. It got to the size in this pic in about a year from a small potato chip size frag.

Another partial FTS to show the left 1/2 of the tank for perspective. This was taken after the green cap was fragged to allow more light to the scoly and other corals.

 

[robs.mark]

awesome tank droth, great growth and color..

 

[ashlerbam]

To the OP.This is the type of thing I would love to see as they are one of my favorite corals as well.

And to all the other posters. NICE! I will hopefully at some point be able to get that size of a colony and color combinations in my tank.

 

[droth335]

awesome tank droth, great growth and color..

Thanks!

 

[dnsfpl]

very nice, thanks for sharing

any rough stretch of your rocks scape?

 

[joshuabradley1]

I give props to the huge monti's in some of your reefs. I personally don't like SPS corals, but you guys may have me thinking of keeping a monti in the future.

 

[zachfishman]

That could be a nice idea. I'm always a fan of tanks with smaller varieties of corals which are allowed to really fill out.

 

[dnsfpl]

thanks for sharing

any rough stretch of your rocks scape?

 

[jwoyshnar]

Monti caps have to be one of my favorites. And boy do they ever grow fast.

 

[NYCBOB]

i love caps too!

 

[Anemonebuff]

 

[Anemonebuff]

Photos from today:

 

[Anemonebuff]

 

[Anemonebuff]

I have been fragging the heck out of the orange monti cap and I just got the green spongodes. I want to add a purple cap and maybe a green cap.

 

[Anemonebuff]

Now:

Feb 2011:

Now:

Nov 2010:

 

[e46slc]

Anemonebuff, those montis are friggin' awesome! Do you have a fts?