Tubastrea juveniles
 

Hi! My Tubastrea juveniles are finally starting to send out some secondary polyps and I thought you might like to see them.

[img]http://65.102.221.68/IMG_7416.jpg[/img]

[img]http://65.102.221.68/IMG_7419.jpg[/img]

Thanks!

Cool :dance:

very nice!!! they look great.

Thanks, y'all! What I've found is that the juveniles compete very poorly vs. algae of pretty much any kind. In fact, the parent colony of the polyps above very nearly lost a battle with Valonia (evil stuff) itself. The juveniles that I have that are doing well are all in shaded places (the one above is on a rock overhang) that get really good water flow (the overhang juts out into the current a bit right in a place where return water has banged into the glass and is taking the water down and around the rock). It's really in a perfect place to sieve food particles from the water and it doesn't have to fight the algae.

I was thinking that I might try setting up a darkened raceway with brood stock near the water inlet to give tons of surface area for larvae to settle that all gets really good flow. Maybe set up a constant drip of food at the broodstock end and have the whole thing drain to feed a large display tank.

Oh, the larvae seem to prefer to settle on plastic rather than glass (PVC, the plastic of an internal overflow, the outside cases of powerheads). So, I want to build the raceway of darkened acrylic.

And that's my report.... :)