Montipora Only Tanks, Anyone have one?

[mars6390]

Everyone,

Why would seahorses not do well with Montis? Do they sting?

Marcus

[blstravler]

Originally posted by DarkXerox
As far as SPS goes, I pretty much have only montis, excluding a chips acro frag and my ponape birdsnests. I do keep lps on the bottom tho.

I've got ROAB Orange/Green and Green/Purple digis, Superman danae, Sunset, Rainbow, true undata, idaho grape, and I'm going to try and get my hands on a superman digi. I'll be getting a frag of AE fire engine monti soon too. As far as LE's go, I think a Leng Sy cap and a flower petal monti would finish my collection. There are so many awesome montis out there that you could easily fill a 29G tank like mine.

I have a few others not on your list, would you be interested in doing a trade? PM if you are...

[dwayned]

Horace,

Those are beautiful Blue and Purple Monti Digita. Where is a good source for them? I have orange, green and a salmon color, but I realy want blue and purple. Thanks for any help.

[blstravler]

Originally posted by dwayned
Horace,

Those are beautiful Blue and Purple Monti Digita. Where is a good source for them? I have orange, green and a salmon color, but I realy want blue and purple. Thanks for any help.

dwayned, just PM'd you.

[Uploadead]

I love montipora, but I have never owned a stony coral so far, because oflighting issues. Hoping to silve that when I can move in about 10 years, so saving up already

[drouner]

Okay now you guys got me thinking as well.

1. Easy to grow
2. Variety of colors
3. Variety of shapes
4. Fast growers
5. Can be traded around easily
6. Digi can be fragged easy
7. Do not need as intense light source as other stonies. That is in general.

What else am I missing?

So I started looking at what I can sell off to make room.

Now I need to find a source for some frags.

[blstravler]

Originally posted by drouner
Okay now you guys got me thinking as well.

1. Easy to grow
2. Variety of colors
3. Variety of shapes
4. Fast growers
5. Can be traded around easily
6. Digi can be fragged easy
7. Do not need as intense light source as other stonies. That is in general.

What else am I missing?

So I started looking at what I can sell off to make room.

Now I need to find a source for some frags.

Exactlly what I have been thinking !!!!!!!!!!

[RCS]

What else am I missing?

Monti nudis, some species which are slow growers and hard to keep colored, some species require high light to stay colored, etc., etc....

[blstravler]

Originally posted by RCS
Monti nudis, some species which are slow growers and hard to keep colored, some species require high light to stay colored, etc., etc....

I think you can point out pests in any species of coral as well as lighting conditions or the fact that some are harder to keep then others, this is expected.

But they still are pretty to look at...

[proboscis]

red bugs wont mess with monti's its not a acropora species

[drouner]

blstraveler - What monti's do you have?

[blstravler]

I have the following-

Digi's-

Orange
Pink
Purple
Neon Green
Mustrad Green
Purple Base Green Polyp ROAB
Green Base Orange Polyp ORA
White base Orange Polyp
Brown with Magenta Tips
German Blue polyp ORA

Confusa-

Green polyp with Pink and purple tips
Green base brown polyp

Caps-

Idaho Grape
Leng Sy
Orange
Green w/ purple rim
Green
Purple

Encrusting

True Undata (Tyree LE)
Tan w/ Blue Polyps
Green base with purplr rim and brown polyps Undata
Orange w/ Orange Polyp

[drouner]

Nice list.

Since you started the thread and the fact that I read it, I have been searching the world wide web for unique monti's. I forgot about some of the colors on your list.

I have:

DIGI
Purple
Olive Green
Orange

CAPS
Orange
Purple Rimmed green
Green scroll

ENCRUSTING
Idaho Grape

I don't know if it is a cap or encrusting
Orangish with pale colored polyps.

So I have a long way to catch up to some of you.

My wish list

Superman Digi
Pokerstar
Flower Petal ROAB Orange
Greman Blue
List kind of goes from there

Correct me if I am wrong, but encrusting monti like more flow?

[sndwave80]

I like the detail in the picture!

[therman]

I'm working on an (almost) all monti 65g. I have a few tubipora, clavularia, and blue polyps mixed in for good measure in the lower light areas.

So far I have:

-setosa
-spumosa?
-LE undata
-green "aequituberculata" (similar to LE, which certainly isnt that species)
-superman
-pokerstar lookalike
-tan/green verrucosa w/ purple polyps
-morning star
-sunset
-capitata
-tyree flower petal
-green danae w/ purple polyps (apple berry?)
-green danae w/ greenish polyps
-confusa green w/brown polyps and purple edges
-really funky nodulous orange/red chunk...might plate down the road
-odd brown/purple encrusting thing like danae but with polyps on the verrucae
-brown with purple polyp pink-edge plater
-super purple foliosa-like plating
-atlantis strawberry patch
-non-LE superman
-non-LE sunset
-purple haze
-wild pink-orange digi salvaged from a rock tank...might have green base...too small to tell yet
-a pink thing that looks a bit like spumosa...same giant polyps...no clue what it will grow into though
-and a few other odds and ends

almost all are still frags at this point though. running a 250w DE ushio 10k over the tank, will be adding t5 supplements soon. this display tank has only been running for around a month (200 gal sump has been going since august).

I still have a wish list though...
Dinosaur egg
reverse sunset
green and purple stellata
some different confusas
foveolata
a nice branching hispida
orange nodosa
and maybe a select few digis (open to suggestions)
peltiformis (bought once but died in shipping)

I've had two brief run-ins with monti nudis, but knock on wood they died quick painful deaths with manual removal and superglue around the edges and so far no need to medicate.

always looking for new montis that make the cut too

-Tim

[drouner]

Therman do you have any pictures?

[therman]

Working on it. Not much to see yet because its all frags.

[NanoReefWanabe]

i am working on my monti/ zoa tank

currently have a brown polyps purple base digi, a green digi, a yellow digi, an orange digi, a metallic green cap, an orange cap with pink polyps, and a purple cap with blue polyps..i also have a floresent green monti of some sort...no idea though,,branching but very different from digitata

not sure i have room in my 20 for encrusting monti's though although i love them...they would likely run over my zoos...or the other way around...either way i dont want that..

[osprey77]

I'm working on my 75 being all monti, i just have a few frags left over from my smaller tank but 90% is montis including

superman
pokerstar
rainbow
idaho grape
2 colrs of whorling
2 colors of cap.
3 colors of fingering
one mystery expriment
one purple polyp experiment
and a few others thrown in as well

[addo]

Heres one: http://archive.reefcentral.com/forum...ight=montipora