Leng Sy Cap是所有水族馆中最传奇和最知名的之一Montiporacorals.First grown by Leng Sy and then popularized on the label of their Reef Solution bottle, this is one aquarium coral strain that never, ever gets old.
Whether you’re hot for the submassiveKung Pao Monti, platingWorld Wide Corals Grafted Cap, or one of the many multicolored branchingMontipora, all reefers still have a place in their aquarium for the hybrid-growth form of the Leng Sy Cap.
Leng Sy Cap看起来不错,并且在几乎任何形式的礁石环境中都能做得很好。但是,其生长形式高度取决于其收到的光的强度。并在较小程度上暴露于水流。
The shape of the Leng Sy cap can be very flat, smooth and foliaceous in moderate light, as the coral spreads out to catch as much light as possible. In higher light the Leng Sy Cap stays more compact, and begins to develop more detail and surface ridges, and a pronounced, convoluted purple edge.
在非常高的光,珊瑚stays even more compact, with the lead growing edge becoming a deep purple and starts breaking up into multiple and almost folding growth margins. There is a tipping point of lighting conditions which stimulates the Leng Sy Cap to develop its telltale nodules and branchlets which themselves can also develop a purple tip.
There are a lot of purple-edged green caps with similar features to the ‘true’ Leng Sy Cap running around. And unless you have a tracked pedigree of lineage of this strain, it’s hard to know if your coral will develop this setlist of really iconic features.
Of course, if youseethe mother colony, as we have recently in the reef tank of Dave Botwin, and it shows all of these features in a single colony, chances are that this coral is the real deal. Dave’s big colony of Leng Sy Cap ticks all the hallmarks of this coral strain that has been in the hobby since the late nineties, and under a stack of Radion G3 Pro LED lights it’s really developed into a showpiece colony.