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chadscamaro
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Dave, your tank looks great ! :thumbsup:
Shooter7
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Thanks! 
Yeah, that's GSP. We can get you some more if you want some. I still have this dino-like stuff in the tank, but it can't seem to make up its mind if it's staying or going away.
And speaking of making up one's mind, the RBTA continues to kind of shift around down in that area below the rocks. It reaches up while the lights are on and bubbles up as you can see in the pics, but he's staying down low still otherwise.
Yeah, that's GSP. We can get you some more if you want some. I still have this dino-like stuff in the tank, but it can't seem to make up its mind if it's staying or going away.
And speaking of making up one's mind, the RBTA continues to kind of shift around down in that area below the rocks. It reaches up while the lights are on and bubbles up as you can see in the pics, but he's staying down low still otherwise.
Shooter7
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Just wondering, if you can see in that last pic, my orange monti cap is growing kinda wild on top. I'm noticing this after seeing several pics of other people's caps and seeing how nice and even the edges of theirs are. Mine looks like it's blowing up or something. There are multiple "shards" of it growing up on the upper edge. The lower portions are growing in the typical rounded out manner. Would it benefit things at all for me to try and break off some of these errant growths on the upper edge in an effort to even up the edge of the coral or should I just let it do its thing and live with it?
DARKSILENTTYPE
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Dave nice pics are you using the flash on your camera when you take pics?
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Shooter7
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No sir. I just finally found the "White Balance" menu selection and messed with that some. Problem I was having was that I was getting alot of blue from my lights (12k's), alot more than what they looked like in real life - so I finally made up my mind to try and figure something out with the white balance setting. I didn't even do that like you're supposed to with a white card or whatever. I just hit the measure selection on the menu and pointed it at the sand bed and it adjusted itself from there and I took the pics and those are what I came out with. Probably would have been better if I had used a tripod, but I was just happy that I had filtered out the unnatural blue shading of everything I was getting before. These look much more true to life. and thanks! 
DrBDC
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Very nice looking! Perfect picture coloring. So many pics taken are so blue tinted you can't really enjoy the pic. I hate smurf blue. The cap should start to develop that typical whorling you're used to seeing. Make sure it has plenty of random or conflicting flow and that will speed the extra plates to start forming into the circles. Low flow will spread them out farther as well and take up more real estate. If all is right they should be fairly tight plated like a blooming onion vs. big flat pieces. If for some reason that one doesn't want to shape right in the next few months, try taking a piece of it and glue it to a rock on the middle of the frag not the end and then place it in the center of the tank so it gets hit from both sides with flow.
gath2
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That is interesting growth in the cap. What kind of flow is it under? Flow seems to be the key in how these grow. Under low flow they grow more flat and spread out. Under high flow they grow together more closely and dense.
I'm sure lighting conditions have some effect as well.
I'm sure lighting conditions have some effect as well.
Shooter7
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I would say that the flow it's getting is pretty much fairly high, random. It's kind of near the output of that Seio 1500 in the corner, so it's just a matter of how much of that variable wide flow it gets. Alot of the main flow from the pump, I think, goes past it but it gets some waves of flow, also gets flow from the seio on the other end of the tank pointed down that way. And it's almost directly beneath the light on that side.
DrBDC
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I've notice that on most corals they will encrust the rock and grow a larger diameter with higher PAR and shoot verical faster with lower PAR. Just like a plant they stretch for light and grow thicker and bushier with enough. Same with wind(flow) they thicken up.
I know, the associations to that statment are to follow soon! :lol:
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I like the black background it makes the colors stand out more.
I personally like the Monti caps to grow out flat and large, I always frag any of the whorls off of mine, since after whorling, the undersides get shaded and have a tendency to die off. and its HUGE, almost 12" now of pure healthy coral. Not to mention I get LOTS of frags off of it. I get offers all the time for my mother colony for $200-$300! Sorry, she's not for sale! The other great thing about it is that under my 400 watters, I get almost 1/2" of growth a month! My frag sales from that coral alone pay for the electricity/goods needed to run my frag tank! I start my frags of it at $15 if anyones interested. Theres some pics of the mother colony as a baby in my gallery.
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