JF Homewrecker Grow Out Thread!

jgarza · Feb 16, 2016

dankreef said:
Sick . Good buy, grow that baby out and sell me one, not diesel! Best of luck to you, Is it in a new tank ?

Its 3 months old so I guess some people may call that new! I'm in the business of trading so maybe we can work out a deal later on down the road

dankreef · Feb 16, 2016

I'm sure you will be fine . Sounds good

monkiboy · Feb 17, 2016

thank you for sharing

fishbrain · Feb 17, 2016

jgarza said:
I was going to do that but a friend of mine has a theory that if you raise it off the rock that instead of encrusting downward forever that it will focus most of its energy to upwards growth after it has encrusted the plug. He has a very successful SPS tank so I'm going to test his theory. If successful then he'll be getting his frag faster

Well at least put a nice wad of putty around that bad boy! Lol your scaring me with it like it is. Besides I have now jinxed you by saying this lol!

jgarza · Feb 17, 2016

fishbrain said:
Well at least put a nice wad of putty around that bad boy! Lol your scaring me with it like it is. Besides I have now jinxed you by saying this lol!

I thought about doing that! Trust me it scares me too. The other day I found my bigger than golf ball size turbo snail all over it and next to it I really thought he would bulldoze it over.

A.G · Feb 18, 2016

Following

May I ask how big is your tank?

jgarza · Feb 18, 2016

A.G said:
Following

May I ask how big is your tank?

It's 60 gallons I believe. It's the Red Sea Reefer 250.

sticky polyps · Feb 18, 2016

congrats! I saw this piece at the show. I wouldn't take it off the plug either. ill be following along!

hinovak · Feb 18, 2016

Haha, nice thread man!!! Watch what happens when it is raised off the rock work!! Magic!! Bam!! Growth explosion!! That turbo snail might want to live in your sump for a bit...haha

Ezeke1 · Feb 18, 2016

Goodluck growing it out!

reefhobby · Feb 18, 2016

Following even though I don't have any SPS besides montipora.

jgarza · Feb 18, 2016

hinovak said:
Haha, nice thread man!!! Watch what happens when it is raised off the rock work!! Magic!! Bam!! Growth explosion!! That turbo snail might want to live in your sump for a bit...haha

I make sure to check on him everyday. But if he gets close again he might get evicted!

slojmn · Feb 19, 2016

Following along. Nice purchase.

jgarza · Feb 22, 2016

Week 2 2/22/16

Some encrusting going on and doing well! Thanks everyone for looking!

brandon429 · Feb 22, 2016

Nothing we could provide in reefing would make that bad boy put on weight faster than cup feeding with roti feast or live phyto if avail ideally!

Isolated amplified feeding would be my twice daily activity lol

jgarza · Feb 22, 2016

brandon429 said:
Nothing we could provide in reefing would make that bad boy put on weight faster than cup feeding with roti feast or live phyto if avail ideally!

Isolated amplified feeding would be my twice daily activity lol

I feed phyto 3-4 times a week and oyster feast every night! I've noticed better color and what seems faster growth in the tank once I started feeding at night.

brandon429 · Feb 22, 2016

Yes agreed it's simply worth the extra input/output work for a while to really get it set in. Mass equals disease resistance and that's one heck of an enviable frag sir lol

Smite · Feb 22, 2016

Following.

sticky polyps · Feb 22, 2016

Trying to learn here... phytoplankton can help acropora grow faster?? I was under the impression that in the wild, colonies would feed on zooplankton. I understand that stuff like zooplankton, copapods, and nonphotosynthetics like gorgonians feed on phytoplankton but i didnot knowit would increase acropora growth. Could someone explain please? Or link an article?

brandon429 · Feb 22, 2016

I was just going off the reproductive/ mass building ability PJ reef was able to do with tubastrea in his nano tank using it. Am aware it's different genus.
He had a prior tank of the month from nano reef. com and live phyto was critical it seemed, again this was lps who notably like meaty foods but the feeding response and mass add was crazy.

If you are saying there's zero chance sps can benefit from live phyto then I'd recommend not to use.

It wouldn't be a poison that's for sure. The roti feast really does have some growth stats. Again different genus but at least sps:

https://reefbuilders.com/2012/03/07/coral-farming-science/

In the end it's me living vicariously off your awesome frag purchase heh. Whatever feed your sps is accustomed to, amplified in some way sounded like a nice up response for such $$