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Why wont my stuff grow?
- Thread starter fishfanatic2
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Good question. I have found with corals its going to be one of several factors:
A) Light
B) Flow
C) Food
D) Water chemistry (including toxic warfare inhibiting growth in some species)
It's usually a combination of several of these - for the zoos and mushrooms since they aren't stony I would look at giving a little more flow / light and if the zoos will take macro sized food then feed once a week. Even though some of these corals will live under PCs / VHO some will thrive and grow quicker under more intense light. For example I have colonies of zooanthids I had for almost a year in my nano that grew very slowly, maybe a polyp or two every month - since putting them in my larger reef with stronger currents and halides the colony has almost doubled in 3 months - it's really astonishing.
Mushrooms - hard to say, some actually seem to grow better oriented vertically IME and not just flat. If you want more just take it out and slice it in half - they grow really fast for me except my few rhosdactis sp. and some of my ricordea.
A) Light
B) Flow
C) Food
D) Water chemistry (including toxic warfare inhibiting growth in some species)
It's usually a combination of several of these - for the zoos and mushrooms since they aren't stony I would look at giving a little more flow / light and if the zoos will take macro sized food then feed once a week. Even though some of these corals will live under PCs / VHO some will thrive and grow quicker under more intense light. For example I have colonies of zooanthids I had for almost a year in my nano that grew very slowly, maybe a polyp or two every month - since putting them in my larger reef with stronger currents and halides the colony has almost doubled in 3 months - it's really astonishing.
Mushrooms - hard to say, some actually seem to grow better oriented vertically IME and not just flat. If you want more just take it out and slice it in half - they grow really fast for me except my few rhosdactis sp. and some of my ricordea.
I tries all kinds of things to get my mushrooms to grow. I had a few multiply, but they never got very big. I finally moved the rock they are on the a shaded area in the rock. Now they are huge.
It's a 75g tank with 4 96w PCs. One actinic, to 10Ks, and one 6500K.
It's a 75g tank with 4 96w PCs. One actinic, to 10Ks, and one 6500K.
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