Prostrata SPS.. am i doing it right?

[celamb89]

Hi everyone,

about 6 months ago i acquired what I was told to be a prostrata sps coral... anyway growth has been close to none if that... The PE is great and its been sitting in the same place so it should be accustomed by now...

Here are some pics (taken with iphone sorry), its placed at the top of the tank where it gets a lot of light (6x54w T5), the seriatopora next to it used to be a stag and is now pretty big and still growing fast, so i dont know what the problem would be...

Thanks for the help!

 

[gon08]

Sorry to break it to you but that's a montipora not Acropora prostrata.

This is a small colony of a red prostrata in my tank.

As for growth, first make sure your parameters are in check and if they are you can try to frag it. Sometimes that will stimulate new growth.
The colony in the picture is the mother colony which I frag all the time, yet it puts out twice as much growth as the large colony that grew from a frag from this colony.

Grown from a 1" frag

 

[celamb89]

Ok thanks! params are in check... So just to ask again, the stag is about 2" tall, so i should frag the stag to maybe 2x1" stags? This will activate the growth? also is the high light ok?

 

[gig]

Agree, not a prostata, looks like some sort of digi

 

[deeznutz1]

scratch it and wait afew weeks for new growth

 

[gon08]

Ok thanks! params are in check... So just to ask again, the stag is about 2" tall, so i should frag the stag to maybe 2x1" stags? This will activate the growth? also is the high light ok?

You don't need to hack it at the base. Just take off the tip and give it time. I believe when corals are fragged they go into a survival mode that causes them to put out new growth. In the wild corals are broken by waves and fish and they have to regrow or they may be overgrown by other corals.

 

[celamb89]

ok! ill break off the tip and wait for new growth! :thumbsup: