looking for pics/info. on superman digi

[eaglesrx]

looking for some pics of people's superman digi.

Also, has everyone been giving their's medium to high light? any cases of keeping it low and still have good color?

Thanks for the info.!!

[Don-Coraleone]

before i lost mine i had it low and it had great color.

[Insainoreefer]

I am actively growing mine in a 210 gal tank under 2 x 400w reeflux, 2 x 65w dual actinics and 3 x 75w UVL VHO actinics.

My halides and pc's are mounted 18" from the surface of the water and the VHO's are mounted about 15" from the surface.

light cycles are as follows:

5pm VHO turn on.
5:30 PC Dual actinics turn on.
6:30 Halides turn on.
1:30am Halides turn off.
2:30am PC's turn off.
3:00am VHO turn off.

I've found that with the amount of light I have that the colors look best on this cycle of length. IMO, as far as the intensity, photo period, bulbs and ballast combo, and how high they are mounted, you will have to figure out what works best for you with your setup.

June 26
http://i315.photobucket.com/albums/ll457/Insainoreefer/DSC00838.jpg

Nov 2
http://i315.photobucket.com/albums/ll457/Insainoreefer/DSC00894.jpg

BTW the second photo looks washed but it's my photography skills and not the coral. Also my camera isn't that good.

[reefer334]

That isn't a Superman Digi though, Superman encrusting monti is what it looks like to me.

Chris

[Kip]

i have a super digi... had it in low ppfd and high ppfd.... under LNS and higher nutrient.... regardless.... mine is pale, pale blue (almost white) but with good colored red/orange polyps... seems as if it gets a little more blue (barely) under LNS and high ppfd, but then the polyps retract :(

[reefrick.M]

Here's a pic of mine.

ooop's mines encrusting!


http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/104235superman-med.jpg

[Kreeger1]

Let's see some DIGI pics, not encrusting guys :) I Bought a frag from ATL, i came in so small around half the size of a pink finger nail. Fresh cut, died shortly after arrival. Quick 80 bucks down the drain.
Erik

[IPT]

I had one and didn't have much luck with it. I actually dropped (and broke) the frag so I had one piece high and one low. It didn't seem to matter. Other digitas did fine but that one faded away.

Running a TX5 on a 50 with AB, B+. Midday, Actinic, and another B+.

[eaglesrx]

yeah, no monti danae pics, please. Only digitata pics. Therefore, no monti's that only encrust like the superman danae.

Thanks!!

[Insainoreefer]

Sorry, my bad on that! I didn't quite catch the digi part of that! lol

[dots]

Im not going to lie, its a hard one to get to color up. I have had it for a long time, and most of the time it looks like an orange digi.

When it does, its pretty cool but not as intense as the danae and you really feel like your doing something right.

But because I am always doing something wrong, or because of the light coloration of the blue, its hard to show on most pics.

I think it is very sensitive to change, and you need low nutrients to get the blue to show good.....and the first thing to go when not.

The planets did align once for me, and sadly this is all I have.

I notice that the Tubs Horrida in the foreground has the right WB as well as the itty bitty piece of blue from the Oregon Tort in the corner, so it looks like a true representation. Hopefully you will have better luck than my dumb bunny self.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f285/dougspivey/MAR%2007/Supermandigi207-1.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f285/dougspivey/MAR%2007/supermandigi207.jpg

[NealNano]

I have a frag from a colony that is growing like crazy under a single 400 watt. My frag however is not growing and lost all the blue. It was low in the tank tank under 2 150 watt. The frag is at the LFS i trust, to be nursed and colored up.

[Kip]

wanted to add that mine is still "healthy" and growing (slowly)... it has good PE where is currently is and they are a nice reddish color... just the body is almost white.

if i look at it long enough and wish hard enough.. my eyes will turn it a very faint blue :)

[dots]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13670445#post13670445 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kip

if i look at it long enough and wish hard enough.. my eyes will turn it a very faint blue :)

I know what you mean, you start asking yourself if it really is turning blue or just your imagination.

"Is that blue-gray or gray-blue I see?"

Its how I stay sharp for my P04 test comparitor!! :lol:

[eaglesrx]

thanks everyone for your replies. I've always thought it wasn't so sensitive. However, the more I read about it, the more I find that it's sensitive and hard to color up. I think my sps skills just aren't up to speed at this point yet. Maybe one day....

[adtravels]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13669726#post13669726 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by dots
Im not going to lie, its a hard one to get to color up. I have had it for a long time, and most of the time it looks like an orange digi.

When it does, its pretty cool but not as intense as the danae and you really feel like your doing something right.

But because I am always doing something wrong, or because of the light coloration of the blue, its hard to show on most pics.

I think it is very sensitive to change, and you need low nutrients to get the blue to show good.....and the first thing to go when not.

The planets did align once for me, and sadly this is all I have.

I notice that the Tubs Horrida in the foreground has the right WB as well as the itty bitty piece of blue from the Oregon Tort in the corner, so it looks like a true representation. Hopefully you will have better luck than my dumb bunny self.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f285/dougspivey/MAR%2007/Supermandigi207-1.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f285/dougspivey/MAR%2007/supermandigi207.jpg

Looks like a M. samarensis to me tips are angular as opposed to smooth.

[dots]

Perhaps, I glued a lot of pieces back on when it broke so the morph could be off.

Mine came from a Reefer who bought it directly from Tubs a few years ago.

Here is the original here:
http://www.exoticreefs.us/er_orig/repository/tubs/tubs_md_superman.html

Which is now cared for by:

http://www.exoticfrags.us/corals.php?s=59&c=59



Perhaps one of these gentleman can give some advice on how to achieve results?

(FYI it is noted Atlantis recieved theirs from ROAB, another past farmer for Tubs......so they are the same if anyone was confused.)

[adtravels]

its a cool coral regardless.

[kirstenk]

Here are some pics of mine taken today. The second pic is after I made the polyps retract. The 3rd is the same coral when my tank was nutrient starved. The coral almost died.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/kkmircat/superdigi.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/kkmircat/digi2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/kkmircat/crop1.jpg

[Dyraxe]

What nutrient was lacking on the 3rd pic?

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13678834#post13678834 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kirstenk
Here are some pics of mine taken today. The second pic is after I made the polyps retract. The 3rd is the same coral when my tank was nutrient starved. The coral almost died.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/kkmircat/superdigi.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/kkmircat/digi2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v440/kkmircat/crop1.jpg

[kirstenk]

PO4. :eek:

[250G]

I will try to get the camera on mine, it is doing well. Slow grower for me, In my tank it is up high under indirect light from a 400W radium.

[docalatamu]

wow, seems like a hard coral to get to color up, hard to find the right conditions I guess

[arre]

that is really nice. do you have a frag?

[250G]

As mentioned above, here you go. One of my 2 small colonies.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m142/djelley/Dave/superman1.jpg

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m142/djelley/Dave/superman2.jpg

[spleify]

Great thread! I just picked up one of these corals. Glad to hear they can look so good.

Spleify

[dots]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13690188#post13690188 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 250G
As mentioned above, here you go. One of my 2 small colonies.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m142/djelley/Dave/superman1.jpg

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m142/djelley/Dave/superman2.jpg

Very nice example :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Yes, the best results I have had, where when mine was place very high and literaly fried the blue into it.

[muzz]

I run mine high under 400w reeflux. The lights are about 8 inches off the water, and the coral is about 4 inches under the surface. Without high light it loses its base blue color and look more like just an orange digi. It is a slow grower for everyone I know, not like a normal digi which grows pretty quick. I have a few pieces and have moved them under different bulbs to see how they reactoed, and at different heights.

[eaglesrx]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13690188#post13690188 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by 250G
As mentioned above, here you go. One of my 2 small colonies.

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m142/djelley/Dave/superman1.jpg

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m142/djelley/Dave/superman2.jpg

wow, sweet colony!! Glad to hear if you put it under high light, it colors up. Now, if only I can somehow get 400W over my 28g nano! haha. Well, maybe my next tank, I guess.

[250G]

I do not know about high light for this coral, I keep it up high, but in indirect light (not directly under the 400W).

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13697335#post13697335 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by eaglesrx
wow, sweet colony!! Glad to hear if you put it under high light, it colors up. Now, if only I can somehow get 400W over my 28g nano! haha. Well, maybe my next tank, I guess.