Tell Me About Your Sympodium Experience Please w/Pics.

[Fibinotchi]

Hello,
Have had this coral for about 4 months. Very small, polyps don't open very much and seems to grow on a stock like a toadstool leather coral. Growing, but just doesn't seem impressive. I will add a picture soon. I would like to see some pics of your colonies and hear about your experiences.

 

[Fibinotchi]

 

[Fibinotchi]

First pic was iphone, this pic is from dslr. I'm not good with these cameras and the lighting.

 

[Fibinotchi]

LED lighting with sps ricordia and lps doing good. Near the middle of the tank. Just seems like a weird coral.

 

[cloak]

The one I have hasn't been too demanding when it comes down to lighting & flow, but the growth has been extremely slow. This started off as a 1/2" by 1/2" piece, now it's only a 3" by 2" piece. I think I've had it for at least 2 years now.

 

[Fibinotchi]

Is that a bunch of small colonies like mine with stalks or is it a mat like green star polyps. Thanks for replying.

 

[cloak]

It's not a mat. When I try to frag it, it wants to come off in small colonies, much like the pictures above.

 

[Fibinotchi]

more please?

 

[Bryopsis]

I have blue sympodium, got a frag probably a year ago. It's the slowest grower in my tank. It also seems to be the most sensitive(closing up) but one of the hardiest (surviving crashes/blooms)

I'll get a picture up when I get home. In the year I've had it, it's given me one little frag, some tissue grew onto something that came off the main frag. As small as the glob was it survived. It definitely doesn't like peroxide (though others say soft corals don't care about peroxide) and when dipped multiple minutes for bryopsis purposes, it lost the green in it's polyps. It seems to take about 2 months for it to regain the green and polyps to open.

I usually use the sympodium as the key marker for water quality. It always closes first of all the lps/sps in my tank, and then reopens last. I've kept it in moderate flow with about around 150 par. (I'm currently testing the smaller frag lower in the tank, direct light, but around 60-80 par)

 

[eb2292]

I love my blue sympodium. WHile it is a slow grower, the combination of blues and greens it has is gorgeous. Mine doubled in size in about 8 months; went from about a 2"x2" frag to maybe a little more than 4x4.

Very hardy and forgiving of flow. I have mine placed middle of the way up in regards to lighting.

 

[Fibinotchi]

Gotta be more people on here with this coral than that. Come on people, let's see some pics and hear some experiences.

 

[Fallling]

I've had a frag for several months now, and it's just starting to completely cover the frag. Definitely seems a slow grower. However, someone on my regional forum was selling frags of it kind of recently as it was getting out of control... it had turned softball size. I don't know how long they had though.

I'll try to post a picture of mine when I get home from work.

 

[Fibinotchi]

Ya, some more pics would be great, I want to know if its going to be worth the time and space. mine seems to be starting to split.

 

[Crypsis]

Old thread but here's my sympodium. I've had it for 9 months now and have fragged it once. It grows intermixed with some zoanthids and doesn't seem too demanding.