Polyp size - Lords, blastos

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Hi

Just wondering why the heads on my lords and blastos are so big compared to those pictures you usually see.
Normally, I see heads tightly 'squezzed' together, but mine are not like that at all.
Acan heads are from 0.5"-1" in diameter, and my 2 blastos can do 2"+
Is it flow or lighting related?

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Blastos on 1.8" plug. The back one is easily covering the whole plug.

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Lords with big heads.
 
Blasto merletti’s are smaller, it also helps that you only have 1-2 polyps, once they grow into a larger colony the polyps will have less space to spread out.

I don’t have any experience with Acans.
 
I would say they are happy. My blastos are roughly 1.5-2 inches as well. Healthy!
 

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Thanks.
I would say they are happy. My blastos are roughly 1.5-2 inches as well. Healthy!
It could very well be the sufficient space.
It has 5-6 new heads, so I will see if it changes in the future.
Lords, usually looks the same way, but mine seem to just overlap eachother instead of pressing against eachother.
 

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