Starburst monti cap

[brad65ford]

The entire photo is overexposed and so everything looks a little washed out. My setosa isn't washed out at all. It's tripled in size in under 3 months.

Very cool, may you please share a picture I'm dieing to see one with color under theses kessils. I've seen what they look like under t5 and Mh and its beautiful mine is pale in color similar to yours... was sure if the Kessils are the cause.

Best,
Brad

 

[barry_keith]

The entire photo is overexposed and so everything looks a little washed out. My setosa isn't washed out at all. It's tripled in size in under 3 months.

Odd.. It doesn't look like that setosa has encrusted much, mine spread out a lot before any branching growth. Mine is a slow grower for sure, especially compared to other montipora.

 

[Kaman8]

I got rid of my colony, but it always had the best colors in low lighting in a well fed tank. If you keep a low nutrient system and blast it with light, polyps extension will be very poor from what I have seen and experienced.

I have place it now on the bottom of the tank with low-moderate flow and the color is back to normal now and get more pe now.

 

[Reefvet]

Odd.. It doesn't look like that setosa has encrusted much, mine spread out a lot before any branching growth. Mine is a slow grower for sure, especially compared to other montipora.

True, it hasn't encrusted. It's getting a lot of flow and that may be why ?

It was a pretty nice grown under T5 by a friend. It never skipped a beat acclimating to the LED. Color shifted a little and the form changed to what you see, pretty branched out.

I'll try to take a shot of it tomorrow. I just put it in it's own little island today. I took a dremel tool to a piece of dry rock and bored out a hole for the plug it's on because the branches were reaching down into the sand.

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I'm getting very good polyp extension on my Starbust monti in a very high flow area of the tank. There's an MP10 making a strong wave and a closed loop that runs through a Sea Swirl. 25 gals of water being moved a LOT.