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| with one mystifying
characteristic: It will not encrust
at the base. Grows fairly well, but
never seems to 'take hold' anywhere
which quite naturally makes it prone
to being knocked about. This is how
it got fragged in the first place. |
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#15  :
Ah well, what can I say: My pride
and joy (one of them anyway) finally
gave in to a dose of 'rtn' on
Christmas Eve, necessitating massive
emergency fragging and disrupting
a house full of non- reefing friends
and relatives. Other than that, everything
is fine. Anyway, of the two fair
sized chunks we managed to save,
only one remained viable and is now
doing very well. |
| Unfortunately,
the only room I had to place it was
behind the Heliopora column, which
pretty much obscures it from direct
view right now. Sure looks good from
the top though! And I'm really
thrilled we were able to save some
of it. |
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16 Once
one of the more massive staghorn colonies in this, or any other private
tank, I had thought this coral was all but done for when I Accidentally
dropped the one remaining frag onto the floor early last winter, smashing
it into several pieces .Sadly, I discarded all of them, resigning myself
to this being the 'end of an era' in regards to this long
time specimen, but rationalizing that at least I would now have a bit
more growing room for other corals. That, by the way, was why I had the
piece out of the water to begin with. I'd been |
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living space for it. Well, I
guess I needn't
have bothered as a month or two
later, the little die-hard re-
emerged in a spot that, quite
frankly, I can't recall
it had ever been But
we'd been moving around
the live rock pretty frequently
during the last year so things
like this are bound to happen.
Unfortunately, the place in which
it chose to come back is even
less ideal than where its unfortunate
sibling was plucked from; it
is now a part of the area I call
the Staghorn Jungle as I am just
a few months away from witnessing
one heck of a battle for growing
room amongst these three species .
But,having learned my lesson,
I do not plan to intervene this
time unless the warfare becomes
toxic. |
Acropora
#17 This
too was one of the early pieces
affected by last December's
event and was fragged down
substantially. A good part
of remainder was sold simply
to create space though, and
as of this writing, the golf
ball sized chunk I kept seems
to be doing okay. It has not
encrusted its base yet however
(actually, it never was a great'encruster')
but in it's new and better
spot up high in the tank, I
have confidence it should do
well. |
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#18 Another
December casualty,especially
frustrating because I've
had this piece so longhand it
was doing so well. |
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