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Unread 10/19/2016, 03:41 AM   #123
Ron Reefman
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IMHO you are on the right track and moving along very nicely. For just a month in a fairly new tank, your corals appear to be doing very well.

The thing to remember is that a small sps frag has very few areas of growth, say 2 or 3 tips and the base encrustation. But a good size colony of an sps coral may have 10, 20 or more growing tips. It seems like the colony is growing faster, but it's not, it's just growing more. There is a difference. Or an sps plating coral frag has only a 3" growth ring along the outside edge, but a colony that is just 6 inches in diameter has almost 19" of growth ring. So even with the same growth rate as the small frag, it will grow a lot more new coral.

Bigger corals don't grow faster, they just grow more. Some day in the not too far off future you will be fragging colonies down so they don't grow into each other.


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