Montipora Digitata
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Kind of a loaded question ...
Many will survive - but again, color will brown out without lots of light.
I grew a nice chalice from a bottlecap sized frag, til it was too big for my 12-g nano and now it's a mother colony in my prop system.
I have customers keeping acros in nanos under PC...
Do I recommend that? No, not really - but they can and do, do alright.
Just don't expect tremendous color or fast growth.
Jenn
Many will survive - but again, color will brown out without lots of light.
I grew a nice chalice from a bottlecap sized frag, til it was too big for my 12-g nano and now it's a mother colony in my prop system.
I have customers keeping acros in nanos under PC...
Do I recommend that? No, not really - but they can and do, do alright.
Just don't expect tremendous color or fast growth.
Jenn
ok i have 4x65 lighting on my 50 gallon now and everything is growing very well even teh anem.. it was teh size of a baseball and then it grew bigger than my hand until it met up wiht the power head lol and now its one its way back to teh size of my hand
I know many people who have thriving digitatas under high wattage MH but personally I have to keep them near the substrate in my systems with MH. The 4 variaties I have all preferred less intense lighting and would actually lose color and polyp extension if I had them off the bottom of the tank. My tanks are fairly shallow (18") with 150 MH's. Most are sitting on the substrate now and have awesome coloration. My experiences lead me to think digitatas would be just fine under adequate wattage PC's if they are high enough and the spectrum is adequate.
They are "maintenance" frags and not necessarily pretty. I wasn't planning on charging for them, just giving them to you to see how they survive instead of you wasting money on bigger frags. I may have some purple broken off behind my rockwork too. I hate digis......you look at them wrong and they snap:doh:
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