lighting for superman monti?

[Fly Guy]

6" under the water directly under a 250 w bulb. I think I get the best color out of all of my encrusting montis high in the tank and with mass amouints of flow. There is a catch to this though......do it very SLOWLY. If you just put them there without moving them up slowly you can bleach and or stunt them and it will take many months to truly recover from it. Many of these encrusting montis will get faded out and or much less brilliant than their potential under insufficient lighting.

In fact.....wheres luvmylo?? I want to know if he listened to me and moved that little frag of sweetness he has up and if it helped give it more color like I thought it would. I hope so becasue if it did Im going to come collect my payment of a little sliver of that thing. If it didnt Im still probably going to come collect He has this little frag that has the potential to be sweeter than my sunset or rainbow.....

[hng]

Thanks for the advice Fly Guy, I'll start low and move it up slowly.

[Mizer67]

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/2008/2/aafeature2
Advanced Aquarist has a whole article about Superman Monti's this month. Enjoy!

[hng]

Thanks for the link Mizer67!

[skey44]

there are a few different "superman" monti's out there. but the one i had did well under my radium lights growing a lot in 3 months and keeping good coler either under the center brace or on the sand bed.

i think the article is the tyree le "true superman" btw.




but this is the one i normally see... more dense polyps

[reefermike1]

mines been growing 18inches away from t-5s... has great color too!

it started out as the bump in the middle of the frag plug

[chrischris]

wow reefmike thats cool it surounded the frag plug
what the name of the other coral in the pic

[reefermike1]

Originally Posted by chrischris

what the name of the other coral in the pic

i honestly dont know cant remember for the life of me lol

[chrischris]

looks really cool though

[hng]

Nice looking frags Mike! I have mine in the bottom third of the tank and will leave it there until I have a good reason to move it. I have a tendency to move stuff too much and will try my best to resist this time.

[mmn_usn]

I have my encrusting superman on a rod and string, hanging directly under the 250W 10K XM's about 2" under the water and about 10" from the bulb. The blue is really dark and the polyps deep red...

I will try to post a picture sometime this week.

[jrpdriver]

I just got a frag of superman from Tyree at a convention this past weekend, he said there is another monti that looks very similar, almost identical but has smaller polyps, that does very well in high light but that the true superman monti does best in moderate

[hng]

Update: the frag is starting to encrust and spread, but the color looks bleached out. An orange encrusting monti next to it still has good color and is growing faster. I'm gonna leave it where it is for now since it still has good PE and is encrusting. I think it's still too soon to make a decision about moving it up or down.

[hng]

The PE on the superman has decreased so I have moved it down to the bottom of the tank. Hopefully, it will recover.

[chrischris]

i wish i could find a peice of superman monti