"challice" pics...lets see em!
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DarkXerox
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Found the article...I stand corrected, it did not say they are found on the sand bed, rather in all different parts of the rocky reef, I assume both in the rock work of the reef and potentially the sandy areas.
"Echinophyllia corals have learned to benefit from the high level of sediment that settles down on them from the current. They are able to use sediment as a source of nutrition by selectively extracting organic matter and transferring it directly to their tissue. Once the sediments are depleted of nutritional value, the corals use their natural sediment-rejecting abilities with mucous to clean their surface for the next batch"
pg. 50 CORAL January-February 2011
This is exactly what I see with my larger chalices on the sand bed, they will be 75% covered with sand and within a few hours only 20% covered, then an hour later completely sand free. I doubt my chalices are getting a whole lot of nutrition from the sand deposited on them by my leopard wrasse but they are exhibiting the ability to remove the sand with their mucous
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I have noticed this as well. I often stir up my sand bed during water changes or when I'm moving things around and the chalices are always the first corals to be "clean". In addition, I always keep my chalices on the sandbed, however I tend to use wider based frag plugs/rocks so they don't get flipped.
They always get a really nice circular shape to them too and it is neat to see how they incorporate parts of the sandbed into their skeleton. Whether this makes them grow faster or not, it is interesting! Another observation I have seen is that superglue/higher "elevations" seem to stunt growth edges (take a look at my pink boobies frag).
BGM and bazooka joe on 1/26/11
Pink boobies and miami hurricane on 1/26/11
Same BGM and bazooka joe (plus Pink Boobies) on 5/16/10
Some older chalices that I traded away (notice the growth patterns)
Original BGM colony before I traded it in 2/10
roblack
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I like very much! The one front and center is extra special.
here are some of my challices:
hope you guys like it...
chewitback
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Dhraako, does that one have a name?
Not the sliiightest clue honestly. I've personally never seen one like that before but I'm sure someone here could correct me. If not lets call it the 'Dinosaur Skin Chalice' heh. Someone on my build thread told me that's what it looks like.
israel.kendall
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Brian Chong
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dont know what this is but it has piqued my interest in chalices
NewSchool04
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Here are some of mine. Planning to go to a big frag swap this weekend and picking up some nice ones, hopefully!
xdannyxrocksx
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nothing special just my starting collection..
nothing special just my starting collection..
nothing special just my starting collection..
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