cbonito
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Picked them up from diver's den and they've been in the tank now since thursday.
They all appear to be doing ok given they were just shipped a few days ago.
Please excuse my pics as I am using a droid camera and my lighting is AI Sol which makes it difficult to take good pictures.
I have absolutely no idea on this one...it doesnt seem to be a deepwater as most of them I see have sparse corallites....but I could be wrong. It's mounted higher up in good flow.
This is a common growth form with many names so I'm at a loss.
I am very fond of this one below because I've always wanted a nice thick branching stag.
At first I thought albrotanoides, but in looking at the ones other people have I see the radial corallites are longer, and of course the coloration seems to all be a greenish going to a red or pink at the tips...This one is a wild piece and there isnt much along hte lines of color to speak of. I think it's more greenish than anything and MAY possibly want to be a teal color so I am thinking albrohosensis? Opinions? I'm pretty sure these suckers like high light so it's up there hjigh in the center of the tank with a strong gyre all around it and I am just going to leave it there and see what happens. I hope it rewards me with a bright color and continues the thick growth form This is a 4 inch long piece and is close to an inch thick! I dont come across these too often around here.
And lastly, this one which I want to say is A. Humilis, but another guess would be samoensis?
It's all purple where the light hits it and there are lots of areas where the base is bright green. The axial corallites have a green sheen to them as well and so do the polyps. I have it halfway up and it's in a really turbulent flow up near the front of the tank where my vortech hits the front pane. I THINK I have had one of these years ago and it was fine on the bottom where the entire thing turned green, but it had been through a few shocks and I am unsure whether it just needed to be down to recover, or it wanted to be there. I'm thinking purple needs some good light. Thoughts? Oh and it's not as close to the hydnophora in the background as you'd think. It can't reach.. lol
Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
They all appear to be doing ok given they were just shipped a few days ago.
Please excuse my pics as I am using a droid camera and my lighting is AI Sol which makes it difficult to take good pictures.
I have absolutely no idea on this one...it doesnt seem to be a deepwater as most of them I see have sparse corallites....but I could be wrong. It's mounted higher up in good flow.
This is a common growth form with many names so I'm at a loss.
I am very fond of this one below because I've always wanted a nice thick branching stag.
At first I thought albrotanoides, but in looking at the ones other people have I see the radial corallites are longer, and of course the coloration seems to all be a greenish going to a red or pink at the tips...This one is a wild piece and there isnt much along hte lines of color to speak of. I think it's more greenish than anything and MAY possibly want to be a teal color so I am thinking albrohosensis? Opinions? I'm pretty sure these suckers like high light so it's up there hjigh in the center of the tank with a strong gyre all around it and I am just going to leave it there and see what happens. I hope it rewards me with a bright color and continues the thick growth form This is a 4 inch long piece and is close to an inch thick! I dont come across these too often around here.
And lastly, this one which I want to say is A. Humilis, but another guess would be samoensis?
It's all purple where the light hits it and there are lots of areas where the base is bright green. The axial corallites have a green sheen to them as well and so do the polyps. I have it halfway up and it's in a really turbulent flow up near the front of the tank where my vortech hits the front pane. I THINK I have had one of these years ago and it was fine on the bottom where the entire thing turned green, but it had been through a few shocks and I am unsure whether it just needed to be down to recover, or it wanted to be there. I'm thinking purple needs some good light. Thoughts? Oh and it's not as close to the hydnophora in the background as you'd think. It can't reach.. lol
Thanks in advance for any help or advice.
