how fast does a red robin acro grow

[wingman1234]

i was wonder was the growth rate was for a red robin acro if anyone has any pictures that would be really cool.

 

[ReefRunner]

My experience has been that they grow slowly, particularly at first. Once they encrust the growth rate is faster but that seems to be typical. I'll try to get some pictures up this evening.

Robin

 

[jc5205]

Grown out from a frag... growth has been good

 

[macawmagic]

I've had mine a little over a year. started as a 3/4" stick. it is now fully encrusted around the plug and maybe 1 1/2" tall, but the braches comeing off would still be pretty hard to frag. they're only like 1/4". It has deff been growing faster now that it's encrusted.

 

[wingman1234]

cool thanks do u think it is worth buying

 

[cee]

My experience has been that they grow slowly, particularly at first. Once they encrust the growth rate is faster but that seems to be typical. I'll try to get some pictures up this evening.

Robin

Agree. Mine (if that's what it is, came from snipersps before his crash) did nothing for almost a year while it encrusted. Now it is growing quite rapidly.

Dave

 

[cee]

cool thanks do u think it is worth buying

Beautiful coral under very high light IMO. Prefers the "whiter" end of the spectrum for best color (maybe because of higher PAR, maybe because there is red in the 10k spectrum and not in the 20ks).

 

[wingman1234]

cool, would it be fine under 14k mh lights ok

 

[Znut Reefer]

It is a slow grower until it encrusts. Is it worth buying? IMO yes. It does like high lighting to keep the red.

 

[eagleone]

+1
Once the base goes up, it grows pretty quick. Although I don't think it's truly red.

 

[wingman1234]

as long as it looks pretty

 

[Emster]

Here is a pic of mine. They are right once it encrusts it grows pretty fast. This is mine under 14k's....

 

[Znut Reefer]

Thats a beautiful colony. I got a frag growing out again. Does yours look more pink in person?

 

[wingman1234]

that looks amazing

 

[mgny]

Here is mine. Got a small frag from maximus years ago. It grew super slow up until a year ago. It finally branched off and is growing faster.

 

[Elan]

how do you think it would grow under t5's?

 

[mgny]

my 180 has always been vho's. T5's should be fine. Here is some other growth.

 

[holyscoly]

mgny is your tank all vho or vho/mh