Astroreefer
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Hello,
About 4-5 months ago I bought a monti frag that wasn't so hot looking, but it was cheap so why not... The monti was white but it had its polyps fully extended so I thought it was bleached and was recovering. I put it in my 55 and just forgot about it, a couple months later when I remembered I had a monti frag somewhere and found it, I was surprised to see it was still white/very pale pink with green polyps. The 55 runs at 8dkh, 400ppm Ca, ~5ppm Nitrate and ~0.03ppm Phos. and T5's. It hadnt grown much in that time, mainly just encrusted on the frag plug. When I realised it wasn't colouring up I decided to put it in my 25 which has 60w LEDs, and runs at 11dkh, 440ppm, 0 Nitrate and undetectable Phosphate, so very different conditions than my 55. Its been in there for about a month so far and I'm still not seeing a change in its colour, but a great improvement in growth and has started plating. I have been experimenting in dosing milk for improving colouration but even the new growth in my monti is white but the polyps have really coloured up and are bright green. So what I am asking if anybody has seen a white monti cap with green polyps? If not does anybody have any ideas on how I can get it to colour up?
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About 4-5 months ago I bought a monti frag that wasn't so hot looking, but it was cheap so why not... The monti was white but it had its polyps fully extended so I thought it was bleached and was recovering. I put it in my 55 and just forgot about it, a couple months later when I remembered I had a monti frag somewhere and found it, I was surprised to see it was still white/very pale pink with green polyps. The 55 runs at 8dkh, 400ppm Ca, ~5ppm Nitrate and ~0.03ppm Phos. and T5's. It hadnt grown much in that time, mainly just encrusted on the frag plug. When I realised it wasn't colouring up I decided to put it in my 25 which has 60w LEDs, and runs at 11dkh, 440ppm, 0 Nitrate and undetectable Phosphate, so very different conditions than my 55. Its been in there for about a month so far and I'm still not seeing a change in its colour, but a great improvement in growth and has started plating. I have been experimenting in dosing milk for improving colouration but even the new growth in my monti is white but the polyps have really coloured up and are bright green. So what I am asking if anybody has seen a white monti cap with green polyps? If not does anybody have any ideas on how I can get it to colour up?
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