The Good, Bad and Ugly: One Year of Acropora Growth

Before You ask: my lights are 3 ATI Straton Gen 1 LEDs tuned to a 14-18K spectrum at around 75% max intensity. For more information on my system, Stay tuned to my 1 year tank update coming soon! One year ago, I uploaded a top down tour of my tank. After recently rewatching that video, I found it interesting how some acropora grew like mad, even after all the stress moving to a new tank can involve, while others grew very little. In this video, I will highlight a years growth for several of my corals in my tank and comment on my experience with them. I’ve added a lot of new acropora frags in the last year, so maybe it will be fun to make this an annual video update. The original video was shot on March 25, 2023, and reshot on March 23, 2024 so almost exactly 1 year to the date. I shot these with my Nikon DSLR which is not a video camera, but they came out well despite the changing of the color balance.