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Monti caps are the typical plating monti.
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I am not an expert here by any means, so please take that into account.
The first photo from the OP is a true plating Monti. Notice how it forms levels of smooth plates?
The photo you shared looks to me to be similar to a branching form. They grow out to look similar to those beautiful acro colonies. Spires attached to a main base.
This could also be completely off base. I say this because yours looks similar to mine in color and basic shape. Yours almost looks to be reaching for light. ?
The first photo from the OP is a true plating Monti. Notice how it forms levels of smooth plates?
The photo you shared looks to me to be similar to a branching form. They grow out to look similar to those beautiful acro colonies. Spires attached to a main base.
This could also be completely off base. I say this because yours looks similar to mine in color and basic shape. Yours almost looks to be reaching for light. ?
It’s curious because i grows very fast and spreads out, but over time the “spires” form. Both LfS that a trade to really like it as they haven’t seen one grow quite like it.
Ive had it for years.
Like I said. I am not an expert here. I have only in the last year been able to keep Monti's alive at all. Notice the growth rings on the edges of the ones I posted? This has been the growth since I did my tank upgrade about 7 weeks ago. The red one has literally grown about 1/4 inch in that time.
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I am by means an expert either but I would guess it’s not a Cap. Also, the growth form of a coral can sometimes be a little weird. For instance I have a mystic sunset monti that is a encrusting monti that in my tank started encrusting and now it’s plating.
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Yeah it’s a common, fast growing monti. Mine encrusted the rock until it grew into some other corals and then it kinda started plating.
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I do like the colors of it, and when my tank was newer I liked fast growing corals like that. Now that my tank is over crowded and many of my corals are fighting for space I don’t care for it all that much. I see the space that it takes up and all I see is a big space where I could put a nice garden of torches.
I dont know what categori of montipora I have, (I called them monti cap) but this is picture of 3 years of growth.
Correction, I don't have it any more, I broke it all down and donated to local store, and starting with frags again
Correction, I don't have it any more, I broke it all down and donated to local store, and starting with frags again
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