紫色边缘Sy帽是SPS Reef Keep的爱好中最可取和可识别的珊瑚菌株之一。像斑马斑块和薄荷夹绳一样，紫色边缘帽的图像已在礁石水族产品的标签上贴满了多年Montipora Capricornisstrain.
仅仅几个月前就好了，大概六个月了，因为我分享了一个快速增长的照片frag of the purple rim Leng Sy cap。在我的礁石坦克总数不到一年之后，我很高兴能在各个方面，形状，大小，颜色和细节上取得完美的殖民地。
资深珊瑚礁饲养员从新的和中级礁石业余爱好者那里得到的最常见问题是如何快速而彩色的珊瑚。大多数物种的一般答案始终是尝试保持最健康可能的珊瑚和电镀Montipora是一些最简单的SPS珊瑚之一。
However there are some tips and tricks to help you grow a nice purple rim Leng Sy cap that looks just ‘like the pictures’. These Montipora pro-tips include keeping a high magnesium level, regularly adding the right trace elements, and providing the corals with suitable light intensity as well as color.
Years ago I noticed that my SPS tanks tended to grow Acropora and Stylophora really well, but the Monti frags I kept would look great while not really growing all that fast. At the time I kept my magnesium levels at a very reasonable 1300 to 1350 ppm but it wasn’t untilI started keeping Magnesium really high我真的看到郁郁葱葱的1450 ppmMontiporain these mixed SPS reef tanks.
从那以后，我注意到蒙蒂斯（MontisMontipora群落。
现在，珊瑚礁可以很好地处理钙，碱度和镁的矿物质平衡，但另一种真正有助于使蒙蒂斯尽可能明亮和健康的成分是定期添加微量元素。If you feed a lot or do a lot of water changes you might get away with minimal extra traces.
But in a crowded reef tank with lots of fast growing corals scavenging every little bit of Strontium, iodine, zinc etc. the regular addition of these will go great lengths to stimulating abundant and vibrant pigments in aquarium corals. You don’t have to go all in with the balling method and dosing dozens of separate elements either – I like to use a broad spectrum trace element additive such asBrightwell Replenishto cover most of it, and I am a firm believer in the power of AcroPower as a source of Amino Acids.
如前所述，您绝对可以在几乎任何体面的光线下轻松地增长这种压力，直至100次，但是如果您想长出带有漂亮倾斜墙壁的Leng sy帽，明亮的紫色边缘和漂亮的结节开发you’re going to need bright lights。
为了真正获得丰富的细节和角色，您真的想瞄准至少400个Umols的标准杆，其中600个Umols是最佳选择。如果您给它更明亮的灯光最多可达1000乌米，那么珊瑚将垂直生长，以至于它不会真正滚动，而且看起来很整洁，但是非常粗糙，并且会很粗糙，并且会有时甚至向下增长!
Last but not least, we are all addicted to blue lights these days but the purple rim of the Leng Sy cap really looks在温暖的照明下最亮，最生动。This is both to stimulate the nice, thick colored rim of the coral, but also simply to render that particular pigment vividly. In the video clip above you can see how unreal the purple rim of this Leng Sy cap is under warmer spectrum and this kind of highlighting applies to all pink pigments like those ofPocillopora,Seriatopora,Stylophoraand even粉红色的肾上腺素。
After all of these years of growing caps the Leng Sy colony I have now is by far the nicest I’ve ever personally grown. I want to thank Sanjay for letting me harvest a frag from his tank last year, and especially the long procession of reefers all over the country who helped keep this historical strain alive in the reef aquarium hobby for nearly 20 years!
