"This M. capricornis was quite understandably the 'showpiece' of the tankcfor a time. By the time we parted company, it was perhaps a foot and a half and and TWO FEET across! I'd originally acquired it for a local reefer whose tank it had already outgrown. In the eighteen months I had it, it probably grew another 50%. It soon became so large that it not only shaded the corals below it, it blocked a lot of the water movement around itself. This, in turn, caused a localized cyanobacterial bloom that was unsightly and brought about great concern for several of the other corals."

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