Red cap vs. green cap Monti

[Silly clownfish]

I have both in my tank. Both started as small frags. For a while they were growing in a nice layered manner, with the red always growing faster. After several large prunings (maybe a quarter of a 5 gallon bucket worth), the red threatens to take over the candy apple green. I plan to do some more targeted pruning this time.

My question for others with both colors in their tank: does red always outgrow green? Or does green sometimes outgrow red? And if so, what triggers one to grow faster than the other?

Thoughts?

 

[crawling junk]

My red ones always grow the fastest


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[gprdypoo04]

Mine toooooooo

 

[Crooked Reef]

In my experience the red always outgrows all other montiporas I have tried. Green, sunset, sand dollar, doesn’t matter. Red grows quicker.

 

[homer1475]

Red outgrows most everything. I typically break pieces off once a week to prevent it from shading other corals.

 

[Cliving1]

Red outgrows most everything. I typically break pieces off once a week to prevent it from shading other corals.

This has been my experience as well. Reds are awesome

 

[IveGotSunshine]

My green with blue polyps outgrows my red but my red outgrows my candy apple

 

[Silly clownfish]

Thanks for all of the responses. So no magic bullet of raise the level of element X to get the candy apple green to grow faster than the red...

 

[FullBoreReefer]

Nope, I frag my red about three times before my greens in hopes the green can get ahead