The red plating Montipora, M. capricornis, in the middle of the left picture, with the purple tipped Montipora, M. digitata, just above it, developed into the red animal in the right picture and the beautiful creature in the picture below in nine months.

I fear that the red plating one will not develop much further because it is becoming over-shadowed by the purple tip which grows much more quickly.

(Picture by Lisa Page)

On the left a frag which was a gift in July 2002.

On the right the same animal after the collapse of the Bourneman surge device had made a few frags. Near the top, on the left of the right picture, in the angle of the front and side glass is another frag.

On the left the same animal five months later, and 16 months after the original frag was introduced, and on the right another frag on the rear glass is a particularly nice shape.

In the left picture, between the Plerogyra and the gorgonian, is a small frag of a green M. digitata given to me by the local fish shop.

In the right picture the same frag five months later. The Plerogyra and the Favia behind it had to go as they were becoming too aggresive.

This animal occupied the whole of the dead skeleton behind the present growth when I bought it. It gradually receded until it was about the size of my little finger nail. Just when I thought I had lost it, it started to stage a comeback as seen on the left.

It is a fairly fast grower and two months later was the size on the right.

Nine months later it had almost filled its old skeleton.

On the right a view from above which shows the blue tinge which is occasionally visible.

The knobbly pink coral is Montipora verrucosa. It is very slow growing and took 16 months to reach the size in the right picture.