Show me your Forest Fire Digita

[tmantaylor18]

Here is mine i got it pretty small and broke it into a million pieces. After i broke it it started to grow much faster.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c305/ScruzTaylor/2_6_09/P1020884.jpg

[cnaegler]

Nice! How long have you had it? I've read on a few threads that some people were having trouble keeping the green color. Are you having any troubles?

[tmantaylor18]

When I got it is lost the green right away and I had no growth from it for about 4 months. Just got its green back in the last few months and is starting to take off.

[ataller]

Here is a macro of one, all I have and the lights are off now.

The green on mine isn't nearly as predominant as yours. With the polyps out the green is barely noticeable.


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3527/3196728727_45b7885f03.jpg

Ill take a picture of the whole frag tomorrow.

Adam

[tmantaylor18]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14345269#post14345269 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by ataller
Here is a macro of one, all I have and the lights are off now.

The green on mine isn't nearly as predominant as yours. With the polyps out the green is barely noticeable.


http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3527/3196728727_45b7885f03.jpg

Ill take a picture of the whole frag tomorrow.

Adam

Does yours grow slow?

[cnaegler]

I definitely have plans to pick up one of these and a superman digi as well.

[ataller]

I am not sure if you would consider it a slow grower or not. It is not the fastest nor the slowest in my tank.

Here is a photo of the frag when I got it in October, following which is a photo of it now.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3424/3262896253_559f86c40c.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3408/3262897505_3eb715bc72.jpg

As I said before you can't really see the green when the polyps are out, and the little you can see does not come out very well in my photos, maybe if I had a top down photobox.

Here is a photo with the polyps retracted after a little work from my turkey baster. You can see the green a bit more. Still not great though.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3437/3263725902_19fbeb04c9.jpg

Adam

[chimmike]

that looks great! Any idea where I could pick one of those up online?

[cnaegler]

They have two versions at Atlantis. One is the original forest fire and the other is an ATL forest fire. The ATL version has blue around the base.

[tmantaylor18]

^

[graveyardworm]

Got this as a frag from a friend, it receded way back, and has started to grow and develop nice color. I have no idea of the original source or if its forest on fire or not, but with all the green algae around it, it really does look like the forest is on fire. :D

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f326/graveyardworm/orangedigitata2-10-09.jpg

[143gadgets]

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww45/livlif/LIV_6259.jpg

http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww45/livlif/CRL_2577.jpg

[spleify]

I have a piece of this also and like others have mentioned it lost color almost immediately after adding it to my tank. I was absolutely beautiful in the store and looks like butt in my tank.

Where do you guys have these placed in the tank? Lighting and flow?

I have 1, 250 W MH and really descent flow, from a couple of modded MJ's.

Thanks

Spleify

[143gadgets]

Cook it spleify!!! :D

[spleify]

Thats kind of what I thought. I have it up as high as I can put it in my tank.

Thanks 143gadgets!!

[gioNVA]

here's mine

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i153/BoostaS4/Aquaria/SPS/DSC_0280.jpg

[OwenInAZ]

Crap, another frag I need to get :)

[Logzor]

Here is mine. Lost most of its green color. Although, it has gained some back since I have been carbon dosing. I now have it right under some pretty high power T5's in my new tank.

I think it might get its color back if I move it down. This pic was taken MONTHS ago and the piece is way thicker and much larger.

Any votes for moving it low light to get the best color?

http://fc86.deviantart.com/fs31/i/2008/227/3/d/Forest_Fire_Monti_by_Logzor.jpg

[graveyardworm]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14367597#post14367597 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spleify


Where do you guys have these placed in the tank? Lighting and flow?
Spleify

Mine is low, at the bottom of a standard 180. About 100 PAR on the meter, and in moderate random flow.

[Logzor]

Chris how low is yours, that is amazing color!

[sfsuphysics]

Mine took a nasty turn when it looked like some sort of fungal infection (there's a thread in this forum somewhere on it), although it was a "orange polyped green based digitata" not a "forest fire" :D sure it's the same thing. I put it in lower light and well it hasn't died on me, but yeah base is not very green.

[jbird69]

Heres mine
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/jbird35/DSC05106.jpg


Heres where I got it.

http://www.totallyexoticcorals.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=11_54&products_id=3734&zenid=b9bfe432d916f8fe781bebb8972a568c

[spleify]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14372253#post14372253 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jbird69


Heres where I got it.

http://www.totallyexoticcorals.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=11_54&products_id=3734&zenid=b9bfe432d916f8fe781bebb8972a568c

Wow $60!! Holy cow, is that how much everyone is paying for this coral. One of the LFS here, has 1/2 off (almost) all corals on weekends, and I am a bember in a local reef club, that the owner gives a 20% discount for. The frag I got has two branches that are each 3" and the coral, all said and done coct me $8.51!!!! It's normally ony $20 though.

[143gadgets]

Mine was free. It a weed in our local area.

[madadi]

same here, i had a huge one that grew really fast and i threw it out. made some room for more acros lol i figured its just a digi who cares.

[tmantaylor18]

Lol it is one of the coolest color combinations imo, I doubt you guys were just throwing it out.

[cnaegler]

Geez, throw one my way! I was thinking of getting one AND paying 60 for it!

[PnoyReefeR]

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i70/pnoyreefer/6407006.jpg

[Unarce]

by 143gadgets
Mine was free. It a weed in our local area.

LOL...it's a weed coral in norcal, too. Marketing genius;)

[aurora]

I've had the same coral for about 7 years now with multiple generation of frags and can trace it back about 10 years. I didn't realize someone finally slap a name on it. You'll see the green better under actinic or 20K bulb. Too much lights will fade the green or the red/orange polyp will be too dense and cover the green base. I have mine 1/2 way up a 30" deep tank under 400W MH. I've always call it my orange and green monti digita. I wonder where the "Forest Fire" label got started. Just glad that no one decided to slap a designer label like "Versace" on it or worse yet put their own name ( like "John Doe's Special") on something that's been around for a while... at least in the Mid-Atlantic area. Very nice coral and definitely great beginner coral since it's pretty hardy and tolerant of abuse. Color can vary based on placement and light. Mine is a bit too happy and the polyps almost cover all the green base but you can see the nice green when polyps are retracted.

These pics are about 2 years old

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh187/spsreefer/DSC_1766.jpg

Colony after some aggressive fragging to the mid right

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh187/spsreefer/DSC_1781.jpg

[KafudaFish]

How old and how big is your clam?

[dots]

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f285/dougspivey/JAN%2007/Picture012.jpg

This was my first SPS, but was known as ROAB's Green and Orange Montipora digitata.

http://www.exoticreefs.us/er_orig/repository/tubs/tubs_mdigitata_green_orange.html

Forest fire rolls off the tongue easier.

[Deftones2015]

Does this coral need to grow to a certain size to start turning green or does it turn green as a frag? I just got a frag and have great color but no green.

[mcliffy2]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14347144#post14347144 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chimmike
that looks great! Any idea where I could pick one of those up online?

Fraggle Reef sells them way cheaper than ATL.

[SnookSlayer08]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14393495#post14393495 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Deftones2015
Does this coral need to grow to a certain size to start turning green or does it turn green as a frag? I just got a frag and have great color but no green.
I got a fully encusted frag on a 1" frag plug and it had a few branches. It's starting to turn green and the frags I made already colored up. I payed $15 for mine and it grows like a weed.

[dots]

The green can be sometimes a bit finicky to show. I seem to remember it comming in with indirect lighting better than being blasted.

[macreefster]

is this one? the pic doesnt show it well, but its just barely starting to show some green now that i've moved directly under the light.

http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm252/macreefster/DSC_0005-3.jpg