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aaronramey11 · Jan 20, 2022

Has anyone had any growth out of acropora bout from top shelf aquatics?

JumboShrimp · Jan 20, 2022

I have been there-- everything sold seems to be sold healthy-- so after that I would suppose further 'growth' is on the proud new owner, no? Best wishes! ;Happy

shakacuz · Jan 20, 2022

every coral i have gotten from TSA has been healthy. nevertheless, i have steady slow growth from all corals in my tank, but that is my own doing on how i maintain my tank!

aaronramey11 · Jan 20, 2022

shakacuz said:
every coral i have gotten from TSA has been healthy. nevertheless, i have steady slow growth from all corals in my tank, but that is my own doing on how i maintain my tank!

I have massive growth out of everything except theirs

TheDragonsReef · Jan 20, 2022

Ive bought quite a few corals from them and havent had any issues. If you're specifically talking about high end acropora sometimes it can take 6-12months for any significant growth from slower growing species. But once some time has passed and theyre settled in, they should start growing steadily.

shakacuz · Jan 20, 2022

aaronramey11 said:
I have massive growth out of everything except theirs

well, every coral is different. definitely unfortunate that this is happening specifically with their corals.

Labridaedicted · Jan 20, 2022

I got stuff from them in the last live sale and am already seeing growth. How long have you had the corals in question? And what are the types. And what are parameters?

If you're not seeing growth, it's not an issue with the store, it's likely just you're running very diff parameters or lighting and that's caused a longer acclimation period before they get rapid growth.

PatW · Jan 20, 2022

I live in Orlando so Top Shelf is local for me. I have gotten a fair number of acropora corals from them in the last 6 months or so. I have several of them that are already colonies and most of the rest are smallish colonies or big frags (started as small frags). It depends somewhat on what coral you get. I have an ORA Frogskin from them that is growing like a weed and a Garf Bonsai that I fragged and have two nice colonies of. Some of the other corals like Jason Fox Flame have been slower growing but it is a small colony now with good color.

One thing I would check is to compare your ALK, Ca, Mg and salinity to their parameters. I run pretty close to what they have so I don’t have too much of a problem.

aaronramey11 · Jan 20, 2022

PatW said:
I live in Orlando so Top Shelf is local for me. I have gotten a fair number of acropora corals from them in the last 6 months or so. I have several of them that are already colonies and most of the rest are smallish colonies or big frags (started as small frags). It depends somewhat on what coral you get. I have an ORA Frogskin from them that is growing like a weed and a Garf Bonsai that I fragged and have two nice colonies of. Some of the other corals like Jason Fox Flame have been slower growing but it is a small colony now with good color.

One thing I would check is to compare your ALK, Ca, Mg and salinity to their parameters. I run pretty close to what they have so I don’t have too much of a problem.

I run almost exactly what they do except calcium