Questions about health of corals

[Corsec]

Hello all,
I would like your input about if my corals look like they are healthy or not. The water parameters are great and the fish are all doing well. I just haven't ever kept some of these before and I am not sure if I am seeing growth or bleaching. I am noticing a change in color at the tips. Is this how growth appears or do corals bleach from the tips? The pics are big so I will post links rather than the photos. Pics 2-6 are not Stonies, just some good photos I had, they seem to be doing well. Pic9 was deleted on purpose, bad photo.

Tank specs:
150 gal
55 gal sump
ASM G3, skimming wet, BB tank
3 X 250 DE MH
2 X 5' T5 VHO
2 X Tunze for circ, plus 1000 GPH from Sump
Thanks
Stan

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[Travis L. Stevens]

So far, so good. They look fine. The SPS with the color change at the tips means that it's growing. That's new growth. The tentacles coming from the brain coral is it's feeder tentacles. Often a sign of good health. And also, if you feed them, they will often grow quicker as well.

PS The Flight of the Rounder was AWESOME!

 

[pwhitby]

Hey Stan, they all look good to me. pic 11, the purple monti digitata, it does grow with lighter color at the tip.

Having seen some of those frags before....they are all growing well to my eye.

P.

 

[Corsec]

lol, you like that? That was a hair brained scheme that resulted from having a four foot square piece of Coroplast and a free afternoon. Turned out better that I would have ever dreamed. It is one of the easiest flying planes I have ever owned. Thanks for the tips on the corals, thats what I wanted to hear, GROWTH!

Thanks
Stan

PS anybody else wants to see the plane he is talking about click here.
Flight of the Rounder

 

[Corsec]

Paul,
I was hoping you would get a chance to take a look as most of the frags came from you. I just wasn't sure what they would look like as they started to grow. Thanks for the input. Everything seems to be doing pretty well. Its amazing the different rates of growth, some frags don't appear to have changed at all while others seem to grow in spurts overnite.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7326224#post7326224 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Corsec
lol, you like that? That was a hair brained scheme that resulted from having a four foot square piece of Coroplast and a free afternoon. Turned out better that I would have ever dreamed. It is one of the easiest flying planes I have ever owned. Thanks for the tips on the corals, thats what I wanted to hear, GROWTH!

Thanks
Stan

PS anybody else wants to see the plane he is talking about click here.
Flight of the Rounder

Sorry, I can't help but tweak with a picture's URL to find more pictures. You're going to have to send me some aviation information. I've always wanted to fly RC Planes, I have good access to CoroPlast, and I'm not afraid to crash a $25 CoroPlast body.

 

[Corsec]

Travis,
The planes are a lot of fun, I have been flying RC for about 15 years. You can build a coroplast plane for about $150 if you don't have any RC gear, you will need a cheap radio @$100 and a motor $50-100 depending on what you want. The coroplast is crazy cheap and you use metal rails from Home Depot or lowes for the back bone. The 150 you spend on equipment is very tough stuff and even if you destroy the coroplast plane you can almost always use the $$ equipment again, very rarely do you break a motor or radio. Check out SpadToTheBone for lots of info.