Green Montipora Digitata. Picture was taken in June 1999.
Sony Mavica FD91 digital camera, no flash Purchased June 4th, 1999. This is one of my first SPS corals I have attempted to keep. It originally came attached to a cement plug. I broke the coral off of that and used epoxy to attach it to the live rocks. The coral will encrust over the epoxy and purple coralline algae will encrust what ever is left. As pictured this coral is about 3 inches wide and 2 inches high. |
Green Montipora Digitata
Picture was taken in September 1999 with a Sony Mavica FD91 digital camera, no flash Here you can see the main colony 3 months later. It has turned a nice shade of green and is showing excellent growth. The epoxy base has been fully encrusted. The colony looks really nice with just the actinics on. |
Green Montipora Digitata
Picture was taken in August 2000 with a Nikon CoolPix 950 digital camera, no flash This is 11 months later and the colony has grown nicely and really colored up. This colony has also been fraged several times. Most upward growth has been fraged off to increase the distance between it and a gorgonian above it. |
Green Montipora Digitata
Picture was taken in September 2001 with a Nikon CoolPix 950 digital camera, no flash Another 13 months has past and this colony was heavily fraged almost down to nothing. In the few weeks since I fraged it a few new branches have grown back already. This is a very rapid growing coral. Unlike many digitata this one does significant encrusting at the base which is neat, but takes up a lot of space. Notice in the picture above the coral was surrounded with Zoanthid polyps, even in the background. All of them are gone. No clue where they went. I didn't even notice it happened until I added this picture. |
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Green Montipora Digitata. Picture was taken in June 1999.
Sony Mavica FD91 digital camera, no flash When mounting the frag in June 1999, these three chunks broke off. Each chunk is about 1/4 inch tall. They are very small. I used a small glob of epoxy and placed each on in it. The Zoanthid to the left is smaller than a US penny. Each of the three frags have shown excellent polyp extension since the first day. |
Green Montipora Digitata
Picture was taken in January 2000 with a Nikon CoolPix 950 digital camera, no flash Pictured to the left are the 3 small fragments that broke off the main colony 7 months earlier. They have encrusted a large area and have developed a metallic green color that just grabs your eye. |
Green Montipora Digitata
Picture was taken in August 2000 with a Nikon CoolPix 950 digital camera, no flash Wow, those three little frags sure have grown nicely. This is the same colony pictured above. This picture is 8 months of growth since the last picture. You can also see it has started to send up some branches. If you look carefully you can still see the 3 original lumps where the frags were placed just slightly off-center in the picture. They never did grow size. |
Green Montipora Digitata
Picture was taken in September 2001 with a Nikon CoolPix 950 digital camera, no flash This picture is a little more than a year after the previous picture. The coral has encrusted a very large area of the rock. The coral was heavily fraged about a month before this picture. Any signs of being fraged are gone and many new branches have already started. |
Green Montipora Digitata
Picture was taken in March 2002 with a Nikon CoolPix 950 digital camera, no flash Wow, what a difference another 7 months made. A few more frags were removed. This is really becoming a very fast grower. I'm gonna have nothing but a single large green digitata in this tank if it keeps growing at this rate. |
Green Montipora Digitata
Picture was taken in July 2002 with a Nikon CoolPix 950 digital camera, no flash Viewed from above you can see it is ready for another round of being fraged. |