Hairy Pavona

[Dustinjw18]

I have noticed my hairy pavona has a couple bubbly looking spots kinda like the flesh is out growing the skeleton. It looks happy just noticed a couple areas its looking different from when we got it. It's about trippled in size since we got it so maybe it's just normal and more noticeable due to size.

 

[G Santana]

It's growing! Beautiful piece!!!

 

[homer1475]

Mine does this from time to time, but it has easily quadrupled in size from a thumbnail frag, to a baseball in just over a year or 2.

Just watch those sweepers, they can get super long, and I haven't found a single coral it won't win against.

 

[Dustinjw18]

Mine does this from time to time, but it has easily quadrupled in size from a thumbnail frag, to a baseball in just over a year or 2.

Just watch those sweepers, they can get super long, and I haven't found a single coral it won't win against.

This was it March 14th

 

[homer1475]

Growing well. I have 2, one is a hairy like yours, the other is more smooth skin, called an ORA mint chip pavona. I have never seen sweeper on the smooth skin.

Give me a minute and I'll grab a pic of both.

 

[Dustinjw18]

Growing well. I have 2, one is a hairy like yours, the other is more smooth skin, called an ORA mint chip pavona. I have never seen sweeper on the smooth skin.

Give me a minute and I'll grab a pic of both.

Like that in the middle? Seems to grow alittle slower.

 

[homer1475]

I actually have mine very low in the tank. Yes I know it's technically an SPS, but I find mine likes lower lighting. While the mint chip likes extreme par.

Hairy:

Never mind the lemon peel photobombing.

And my mint chip:

 

[Dustinjw18]

I actually have mine very low in the tank. Yes I know it's technically an SPS, but I find mine likes lower lighting. While the mint chip likes extreme par.

Hairy:

Never mind the lemon peel photobombing.

And my mint chip:

How long did it take to get your mint that size?

 

[homer1475]

Got it IDK a few years ago at reefapalooza, before rona. Might have been 2019?

Again though it started as a tiny little thumbnail I got for 20 bucks. Been fragged many times over through the years, as I, nor my LFS has ever seen one. So I trade in frags to him. I keep it about that size.

It's also very fragile, and my fish knock chunks of it off from time to time.