Whats your favorite montipora digitata?

spspirate · Oct 7, 2013

I remember when I first brought home my first SPS coral, it was a frag of orange montipora digitata. I was super stoked! I threw the bag into the sump to acclimate for a bit then I opened the bag and gently took out a frag of digitata. I had my two part epoxy ready and new exactly where I wanted to place the small frag. To me this is a great beginner coral for its easy to transition and they photo acclimate well and it's still a cool addition to any reef. So..........whats your favorite digitata? Mine has to be the ROAB from (AKA Reefer On A Budget AKA Alex)

watchguy123 · Oct 7, 2013

superman digitatia

CUNAReefer · Oct 7, 2013

I always liked my Forest Fire Digi and German Blue Digis

dwilliams87 · Oct 7, 2013

I want!!! Beautiful coral.

dwilliams87 · Oct 7, 2013

watchguy123 said:
superman digitatia

I was referring to this pic!

spspirate · Oct 7, 2013

watchguy123 said:
superman digitatia

Thats one of the best looking colonies of superman iv'e seen! Great shot.

spspirate · Oct 7, 2013

CUNAReefer said:
I always liked my Forest Fire Digi and German Blue Digis

Those are very nice!

ritter6788 · Oct 7, 2013

Everyone talks about how easy these corals are to keep but they don't do well in my tanks for some reason. They do fine for months and one day just crap out. Never figured out why.

My favorite is the forest fire with the ROAB a close second.

joshporksandwich · Oct 7, 2013

Mine is the forrest fire. Same as Ritter for me. I always save tips before they all die and regrow. Ohhh but I hate sps lol.

naso tang · Oct 7, 2013

Potassium dosing seems to make my digis happier. I had colonies wax and wane, but aside from making sure you don't have the dreaded Monti eating nudi (which usually don't go after non plating montipora but can irritate digis) stable alk, ca and good flow are the recipe for success ( like most sps)...

ingtar_shinowa · Oct 7, 2013

They wont live in my tank either. I have a couple tiny holdouts on my red digi colony, not dying anymore but not growing. I also have a sliver of sunset monti growing in some shade? its wierd.

1.0reef · Oct 7, 2013

FF or superman, yours is crazy awesome spspirate!

spspirate · Oct 7, 2013

Thanks! I use to know a guy that grew digi's so fast he'd break the branches off as they over grew his reef and would throw the branches into his calcium reactor.........I always thought that was pretty cool...LOL

naso tang · Oct 8, 2013

Gotta find me some roab, also superman. Always cutting back my German blue, so free frags if any locals are interested.

Velodog2 · Oct 8, 2013

Just lost a plain old orange polyp digi in a tank mishap that was one of our faves for the past year or so. What was cool was that it tended to grow downward but always staying like 1/4 - 1/2 inch off the rocks so that it looked like it undulated or flowed and looked kinda creepy, like a tarantula. Took up a lot of real estate tho. Growth rate was variable, but when it was on you could see it elongate from one day to the next.