There prob one of the easiest to take care of, they adapt well to most lighting and medium to high flow. The one you broke is fine, congratulations you just Fraged you Frag. This is how most monties are fraged by just breaking a piece off.
Test kits are pretty worthless once you have a problem, any excess of Phosphates or Nitrates get used up by the algae so that you won't even be able to measure them. Good flow and good husbandry are the key
I don't feed mine and most you really can't. They seem to either thrive or die in a system. I have some pulsing that have basically stayed the same I got them 6 months ago
Awesome pictures, I think all my fish are camera shy. Every time I try to point the camera at them they take of, then I put it down and there right in my face again
3 weeks after I got it in a raffle at my reef club
and 2 weeks later or today, just took the pic
I have had it a total of a month
120gal 4xT5, gets occasional gusts
I pretty sure its the same stuff, it is slowly getting more blue
If your talking about Cespitularia then they seem to like about medium flow and light. i don't think they ever open up like xenia. Had mine for about a month and has spread out across the rock several inches in all directions
Really depends on the tank, rockwork and coral placement. But in general you want to bounce it of the glass if using power heads to get a more diffused random flow