Battlecorals Vivid's Rainbow Acropora Grow Out Contest - Official Entries Thread

Tphill · Apr 30, 2018

It's still alive!

A few weeks ago I changed to Triton full method (from dosing 2-part and using ATS and NO3PO4X), but had several weeks of equipment issues during the change. Most everything browned out, lost a couple, but finally starting to get the numbers back to normal. Got my ICP test results back. Have been making the recommended changes. Should be done with the changes by 5/16/18, and will shoot off another test probably 5/17 or 5/18.

Servo · Apr 30, 2018

Servo said:
Third entry. The coral is still roughly 1 1/4 inches with quite a few small axial coralites blooming off of the coral. The ruler is angled back slightly. The base is what I call fully encrusted creeping down the side. When I got it I was reluctantly let this thing go in my tank but man it’s turning out to be a bikini model.

Fourth Entry. I’ve had some issues with the tank. One of my two return pumps died. (That’s why I planned for redundancy). The problem is the pump feeds my calcium reactor. So my parameters have been a bit off. The coral has also bleached a bit. It continues to grow horizontally.

Crimsonvice · Apr 30, 2018

Crimsonvice said:
I ended up changing it up and went with a different position. Please mark this as my official entry.

Crimsonvice said:
February pic

Encrusting on plug and coloring up.

Crimsonvice said:
Monthly update

Update - more color on new growth and entrusting

Da Ghost · Apr 30, 2018

Still very little growth.

leahfiish · Apr 30, 2018

Not much growth but definitely getting some color

Karl M · Apr 30, 2018

April 30

I think mine is broke. Not much happening

04/30

03/27

alten78 · May 1, 2018

No vertical growth for me, still encrusting and coloring...

domination2580 · May 1, 2018

Well get my post up hopefully today. For the end of April....

domination2580 · May 1, 2018

Here's my entry...not much growth at all....bout to an inch now but it is encrusting and as you can see it is coloring up with a lot of green now.

leahfiish · May 1, 2018

Going through and checking entries and results tonight at some point Will also try to determine a leader although it may be too early to tell

Edit: sorry I broke my own rule but try to keep discussions in the discussion thread lol

bubbaque · May 1, 2018

leahfiish said:
Going through and checking entries and results tonight at some point Will also try to determine a leader although it may be too early to tell

I tried to do it last month, so you might be able to look at that and see if anyone missed two entries in a row. You are right about being hard to find a leader so far as some have had it 4 months, while some 2 1/2 but it will be fun to see.

leahfiish · May 1, 2018

Here's our updated contestant list. A few things to note:

Make sure you post 1 entry per calendar month. I'm going to officially make the cutoff 3am Eastern time/ 12am Pacific Time. I'm sorry that this wasn't clearly outlined before, I hope you guys understand why I have to set a deadline, I'm doing my best to be fair to everybody.
I also apologize for not even tracking anything last month but I'm caught up now
I have marked if a month was missed. Don't forget everyone has 1 skip but it can't be the last month. I have disqualified anyone who missed 2 months. Make sure to post entries in the official entry thread, the discussion thread won't count.
Please let me know if there's any confusion or if I made a mistake.

Ergodyne - missed one
newbreefer316
MTBake
Shameless_Dood
ksfulk
TonapahNorth
Da Ghost
rlman41299 - missed one
alten78 - missed one, good for may
aarbutina - missed one
stylaster - missed one
jerrad
domination2580 - good for may but be careful with post timing
Chac317
Clownman727 - missed one
Crimsonvice
RUNVS - missed one
aandfsoccr04
kdino
bubbaque
Tcup25
Josh Kraft
SWSooner
snakejacques
Tphill
Nola Bear
nashorn
Dmw913 - missed one, be careful with post timing as you are close to the deadlines each month
Caravanshaka
Karl M
servo
leahfiish

As far as leaders - hard to tell so far, and this is in no way official, but I'd say some of the strongest contenders right now are @Josh Kraft @jerrad @bubbaque and @Servo. Keep up the good work!

rlman41299 · May 2, 2018

totally forgot about my April entry. Don't know if I am disqualified but here is my April entry.

PSXerholic · May 14, 2018

Today's status after 3 months already........

History:

April 14

March 15

Februar 15 - for comparison, fresh from Battlecorals, still slimy ;-)

dmw913 · May 19, 2018

May post so I don’t push envelope

. Lots of encrusting. Still pretty white.

PSXerholic · May 21, 2018

dmw913 said:
May post so I don’t push envelope. Lots of encrusting. Still pretty white.

What is that yellow Zoa right underneath the Vivid?
Looks nice!!!

kdino · May 24, 2018

My may post. Looks to be my tips finally started upward. total growth of about .25", maybe 5/16" since day 1. Yes I switched measuring tools, hope that's ok. I can post a side by side to show they are the same.