i found a couple of old shots as my tdf was growing and one close up taken when the shot ed posted was taken. The tdf is super slow grower for the first few years, it lays down a large base before ever growing up. Once it starts shooting branches it tables out and fuses, at least in my tank, and grows quicker. I believe i have had my piece for more than four years. My tdf and the red planet are completely different...i just don't know how to prove it, hehehehe, my red planet perished and i have never really wanted to get another one.
In these pictures the original frag is dead center of the the top down shot and the right 2:00 oclock position in the bottom close up. The original frag branch has never grown or changed, everything has sprouted around it and grown out from it. Kind of interesting.
Dated 7/23/12
dated 1/26/13
close up 10/13 (same date as the whole colony shot earlier in thread)