digitata macro

[jordanphulet]

Here is a macro shot of the digi frag I got a couple of days ago; supposedly it is a german blue tip digitata, but right now the polyps are pink. Does anyone else have one of these?

 

[Anonymous]

I haven't kept that color, but my reef was filled with digitata at one time. It grows at a very impressive rate and may be one of the quickest ways to get a full-grown looking sps reef.

The down side is that the branches are brittle when they get big. They are easily broken off if you have an oops cleaning the glass or anything like that, or even by animals in the tank if you have any large fish or strong inverts. You will inevitably end up with lots of bits of broken branches littering the bottom of your tank.

Several patches of m. digitata survived a near-crash in my tank, followed by months of reduced lighting and marginal water quality. Now that balance has been restored and the halides are burning again, it is once again growing quickly.

 

[Anonymous]

Keep an eye on it... either the macro is out of focus, or it is not in very good shape... good luck.

 

[SnowManSnow]

I have the same digita in my 39 g reef and I can say that it is a tough SPS. It does grow very fast, and will "melt" itself to the rockwork in a matter of weeks if CA and light levels are decent. I would place your frag in a medium flow area... mine doesnt do so well in high flow and someplace it gets pretty good light. Mine is about half tank in a 250W DE 14K MH environment. You'll start noticing the purple or blue tips when it begins growing. Mine gets the purple tips right before I notice a new "branch" being grown from that spot.

Good luck with it. I'm sure you'll do fine.!

B.

 

[fishgills]

Beautiful good luck with it.
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[Unarce]

Keep an eye on it...it is not in very good shape

I noticed that, too. It doesn't seem very happy at the moment, but digi's recover very quickly.

 

[jordanphulet]

Why do you say it doesn't seem happy? Do they polyps extend much more than this?

 

[Unarce]

With normal polyps extension on a digitata, you wouldn't be able to see most of the corals body.

 

[CiXeL]

i can beat that

http://www.cixel.com/ljimages/DSC00025.jpg

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Great shot cixel.

I have that same German blue digitata. did you get it from fragfarmer.com? The damn thing grows like a weed. I've fragged it about 5 times in the past year and the frags are growing like crazy.

I agree about the polyp extension. Mine all have much longer polyp extension than yours is showing.

 

[jordanphulet]

I got the frag from a local club member; the polyp extension is looking better a few days later; it doesn't look like CiXel's pic yet; I'll post another pic of it soon. I think it is doing ok, no RTN.

 

[Anonymous]

I bet it will be fine, it is probably not showing it's full glory as it was just fragged and then in a new tank.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

Good to hear Jordan. Here's one of my frags of the same digi.

Another one.

The 14K Phoenix bulb turns all my pictures blue, so you can't really see the true color of the polyps, but they are more of a purple color than the advertised "blue" that I bought.

 

[jordanphulet]

Thanks for all the info guys; the frag is looking fuzzier every day. I'll keep you posted.