May 1998	Aug. 1998	Jan. 1999
Here is the first picture that I took of this coral. It had about 20 fingers and was fairly short.	In this picture the coral has almost doubled the amount of fingers and is starting to spread out to the sides.	At this time the base of the coral is a least three times as big and the amount of fingers is around 90. Not only is it spreading out to the sides it is also becoming taller and fuller.
Sept. 1999	Nov. 1999	Feb. 2000
Here you can really start to see the growth. The coral has doubled in width and is also much taller with a much larger base. At this point it had well over 150 fingers.	Only one month after the last picture the fingers are starting to get larger and are still increasing in number.	Here the coral is even fuller and has spread out even father. The base is well over 15 inches wide at this time.
Sept. 2000	Oct. 2001	Nov. 2001
Now the coral is starting to take over the tank and is covering some of the other corals. This is the first time that I had to trim to coral because it was too large.	Here is a picture one year later after many cuttings. It is not fully opened in this shot but you can notice the while it is still one coral it is taking on new shape and starting to turn in to at least five separate corals.	Again you can see the separation of the coral in to many instead of one large one. All of pieces are still connected but only by threads now. The coral is almost half the width of the tank now and parts of it have attached to the back glass.
May 1998	Aug. 2000	Nov. 2001
Here is a full shot of the tank around the time the coral was placed to give you an idea of how small the it was when I bought it.	Here is another full tank picture showing the growth and shape of the coral.	Here is a full shot of the tank to show how large the coral is now. The tank is four feet wide and the coral itself is almost two feet wide, about 8 inches deep and close to a foot tall.

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