A Splash of Color
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reefmutt
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I believe there are two types of growth, encrusting aside.
There's the slow but steady growth that sees a coral get bigger but retain its original shape, colour and structure, and then there's the growth that us sps nuts love; that rapid shape shifting colour expanding explosive growth. It's the most satisfying for sure..
Andrew, you should document some of your acros that you haven't moved around or chopped or reglued for over a month and see if they aren't, in fact, getting incrementally closer to one another.
Maybe they are just growing slow..
There's the slow but steady growth that sees a coral get bigger but retain its original shape, colour and structure, and then there's the growth that us sps nuts love; that rapid shape shifting colour expanding explosive growth. It's the most satisfying for sure..
Andrew, you should document some of your acros that you haven't moved around or chopped or reglued for over a month and see if they aren't, in fact, getting incrementally closer to one another.
Maybe they are just growing slow..
biggles
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Hey mate, i'm just repaying some of the kindness Dave has shown me - Dave's customers are the ones who are fortunate
Hey Matt, i will take some top downs i guess and then you can see in a month or two that i'm not crazy and my acros are lazier than everyone else's
Usernam Invalid
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Matt's Mooseaporra?
reefmutt
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Hey mate, i'm just repaying some of the kindness Dave has shown me - Dave's customers are the ones who are fortunate
Hey Matt, i will take some top downs i guess and then you can see in a month or two that i'm not crazy and my acros are lazier than everyone else's
Lmfas!! That is so good!
Biggles' only coral that is growing is growing into a Christmas Canada moose!
Love it!
Andrew, your corals are not lazier than everyone else's. They are expending so much effort on coloration, they are too tired to grow.
martinphillip03
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Andrew, you should put that up for sale on E-Bay. Some Canadian would pay big bucks for a Moose Coral.
Marty
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biggles
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Sounds bloody good to me mate, just recently i have noticed the polyps taking on a pinky red hue which you might be able to notice if you squint hard whilst looking at the pic.
Please note that the right moose antler is earmarked for the Domster's reef....
Lmfas!! That is so good!
Biggles' only coral that is growing is growing into a Christmas Canada moose!
Love it!
Andrew, your corals are not lazier than everyone else's. They are expending so much effort on coloration, they are too tired to grow.
I knew you'd like the growth pattern on that little bugger Matt
When you were talking about documenting some pieces for growth tracking ( calling me a liar ) did you want boring pics........
or full blown porn........
I was thinking about sticking a red acro nose on it right between the antlers for xmas Marty, be a rather epic Rudolph. What are your thoughts mate......... ?
Do you know what species this acro is Andrew , as I have one very similar . And looks like this.It's not a run of the mill acro that's for sure Tim
You're as bad as bloody Dom Matt, i know he thinks i'm being too picky about my colors even though he lies and says otherwise.......... :twitch:
I have a coral growing that always brings you to mind Matt......... i'll grab a pic now and i reckon you'll see why mate
martinphillip03
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If I am not mistaken, don't you have a little piece of Firetruck coral. For me to give you advice is the same as me helping Albert Einstein on the Theory of Relativity. What ever you do will be great. Just make Sahin jealous!
Marty
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reefmutt
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It's not a run of the mill acro that's for sure Tim
You're as bad as bloody Dom Matt, i know he thinks i'm being too picky about my colors even though he lies and says otherwise.......... :twitch:
I have a coral growing that always brings you to mind Matt......... i'll grab a pic now and i reckon you'll see why mate
I think I got an Aussie frag of this coral. Exact same structure. Pale green/yellow body with bluish tips.. kind of thought it was tenuis.. but then again whenever I don't know what a coral is, I think it's tenuis.. I also picke up a pale robins egg blue piece that has the exact same structure. I glued them next to each other..
Sounds bloody good to me mate, just recently i have noticed the polyps taking on a pinky red hue which you might be able to notice if you squint hard whilst looking at the pic.
Please note that the right moose antler is earmarked for the Domster's reef....
I knew you'd like the growth pattern on that little bugger Matt
When you were talking about documenting some pieces for growth tracking ( calling me a liar ) did you want boring pics........
I was thinking about sticking a red acro nose on it right between the antlers for xmas Marty, be a rather epic Rudolph. What are your thoughts mate......... ?
I don't think you could take a boring pic or your tank, Andrew.
I WANT RUDOLF CHRISTMAS ACRO PORN!!
By the way, there is clear growth going on, in the piece at the top of this photo..
Andrew the liar.
Pife
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Woah, looking very good. I was worried things would look worse than they do but of course no way.
That last one above is dead on identical to my pinky acro, including the blue/white near the base.
I need to drive over to Florence and get a frag then! Seriously though I probably would.
biggles
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Things are improving overall but a few pieces continue to go downhill unfortunately. My red polyp flouro thing i thought might have been like a pikachu acro was doing this when i turned a few T5's on this morning. That is the third cut in an attempt to stop it but i've stressed the poor thing too much in the last month.
Beside it is a fireworks frag in low light and still shooting little tips all over despite what the acro next to it is doing - gotta love this hobby sometimes :hmm5:
I buried it upside down in the sand and it's still like that after lights off, i'll dig it up tomorrow and see if i have a zombie acro.......... or white bones.
I will answer everyone's posts and PM's but first...................
I went to Deer Park aquarium the other day with Dom and everything was going well, i was nosing around the shop while Dave and Mark played with corals. John was also there checking out the acros and Dom was looking at stupid fish as bloody usual.
I was actually feeling quite relaxed and enjoying myself when Mark went away and then came back into the wet room and walked up to Dom and handed him an envelope.................. he didn't even speak, just handed Dom the little white envelope and walked off back to working on the corals. I stared at Dom and he looked at me and just smiled......... that smile he has that sh$ts me up the wall ! :hammer:
Despite my building rage i think i did pretty well...... all things considered.......
' That better not be a #$@%@ voucher Dom, i am gonna go right off if it is......... it is isn't it, it's a bloody gift voucher from Georgia for Xmas isn't it, what is it you bastard !!!!!! '
Dom then calmly opened it by which time i was a foot away and i saw another stinking LFS gift voucher from Georgia to Dom...........:mad2:
We both look up from the voucher and Dom says.
' It's a gift voucher from Georgia.......... '
The dot dot dot bit was where he went on about how wonderful Georgia was and blah blah - i was already storming around the shop abusing each and every individual one at a time, John went out the front for a smoke but Mark, Dave and Dom all copped a long and expletive laden rant about how unfair EVERYTHING was for ME ! :hammer:
That's when Mark calmly walks up to me and holds out a small white envelope.......
' What the #$@# is that ' - i was still ranty
No response...... so i took it and he walked away just like he did when he........ could it be......... it couldn't be.......... i looked at Dom and he was looking back at me smiling.......
I could tell you what happened when i opened the envelope with trembling hands but this sums it up better.......
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biggles
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I ran and ran as fast as i could, i didn't stop for anyone............ i ran until i reached the acro tank where my golden ticket from Georgia and Dom secured me entry to the Willy Wonka Acro Factory............
I pinched these off the Deer Park FB page and i think Dave had the UV's up high when he took them. In whiter light the colors were a lot more defined but you get the idea.
You're looking at a fresh shipment of SPS from Christian and the guys from Sustainable Reefs 30 mins out of the bags they were shipped in.
And i had a gift voucher.....................
I pinched these off the Deer Park FB page and i think Dave had the UV's up high when he took them. In whiter light the colors were a lot more defined but you get the idea.
You're looking at a fresh shipment of SPS from Christian and the guys from Sustainable Reefs 30 mins out of the bags they were shipped in.
And i had a gift voucher.....................
