Pruning time - we grow huge corals for our clients! These two offshore hammers (very dense skeleton) have been in my care over ten years at a well known veterinarians home. It has grown up 20 in height since I last moved and pruned it. We had a tough decision because the customer did not want to lose the size of it but it had reached the surface and both sides of the tank and was starting to suffer for it. Simply cleaning around it was stressing it. And if course theyre gonna break under their own weight. Note the attached rock. This tank actually has very little live rock as a base - it is an algae driven system and the coralline algae has fused the structure together. There is more biomass in the coralline than in actual rock. The center one split in half and gave a good break where I could cut out the undergrowth and get a few inches from the surface and get it off the acrylic. (4 huge rbta dictate where the corals go...) the one on the right was 24 tall and 18x24 across and it broke in three large sections. I removed a large rock and gave this one plenty of room to grow - as well as some room for the fish to move around... We will have about a dozen heads available - and the coolest branch rock imaginable. Some of the dead undergrowth was 18 long!
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 22:36:54 +0000
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