One of our forum members, @gig 'em , is also in my local form Austin Reef Club. I bought a humongous chunky brown frag from him at a meeting for a lot less than it was worth. It's turned out to be one of my favorites. I'm not sure that he has it any longer. Interestingly enough, he pulled entirely different colors from it than I do. I dug around and found a picture of one of the frags he had at one time:
That is amazing.I have kept the same piece of this coral for about 6 years now.
RDs are an interesting coral. They are more sensitive than a typical acro but they are also grow like a weed. It is a "canary in the coal mine" coral for me. Problems will always show up on this coral first.
IME dipping in bayer is not that harsh to them and I do not agree with the low light and flow recommendations.
This coral likes medium flow and light not low. In fact when I made cuttings and put them in lower flow they would die overnight sometimes.
Here is a pic of the one in my last tank it was aprox 20" across when I removed it. I still have a frag of it in my new tank. If you look close you can see it is rite in front of a MP40 less than 10" away and the coral is growing towards it.
Aggie/Htown rep! I'm interested in a frag if you have one. Pm me
Yep - Austin as in ATX, River City, Capital City, Silicon Hills, Bat City, People's Republic of Austin, Moscow on the Colorado, Blueberry in the Tomato Soup, home of the Dirty 6th and The Live Music Capital of the World". That Austin.
Clutch CityI’d probably cringe to hear what you’d call Htown
Murder Capital, STDtown, potholes city?? Lol
