clove mania !

[roxy25]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13325304#post13325304 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by HankB
Is there such a thing as pulsing cloves? I saw something at the LFS that looked like white clove polyps (to my untrained eye) that was pulsing like Xenia. The appearance was much more compact than Xenia and it was a colony about the size of a large softball. I suppose I should have asked.

It looked pretty cool.

thanks,
hank

It was probably xenia if it had the apprearance of xenia. cloves do not pulse, if you turn off the pumps and watch some clove polyps species some have a movement but its not a full pulse like xenia. like one finger will move just a tiny bit , on some polyps.

 

[roxy25]

More pictures of cloves !!!

 

[InsaneClownFish]

Kerry, nice cloves!

 

[IridescentLily]

Wow, great thread Roxy. I've always loved clove polyps and had planned to have some in my future tank but it's not a coral that i know alot about. So it was great to wander in here and see this.
Tthis thread, it's very informative, the fragging instruction is fab. Also you all are blowing me away with the pics of your clove polyps. Roxy the new ones you got are sooo pretty. And Seapug, wow, those new blue ones are fabulous.
Thanks!

 

[Mako Shark II]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13203099#post13203099 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by seapug
Not "true" clove polyps but here's some interesting tiny blue guys I picked up recently. I had an ID but forgot the name.....oh well. Each polyp is about 2-3mm across.

I personally like these, but the LFS has come to loath them, because they've taken over their 350 g Display tank. (Set-up on End - Verrrrry cool effect: Looking into the Length of the tank!)

Also, Roxy, Love your stuff Lassie!

 

[Jillyfish]

Does anyone know what the blue cloves are called? I just got some that look exactly like that. The store owner had them labeled as "mystery polyps" Acording to Julian Sprungs book.

 

[sassafrass]

In cali they call them blue snowflakes(not very scientific I know)here are some of mine
IMG]http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn292/sassafrass8/Picture127-1-2-1.jpg[/IMG]

 

[lancer99]

I have seen them called Sansibia sp.

-R

 

[Jillyfish]

sorry, my four year old pushed submit reply. Mine is not at all anthelia like. In Julian's book page 219. It is the little green polyps, only they are blue. I am not trying to hijack this tread for an id though. I was just wondering since they look just like the polyps in Seapug's picture.

Thanks for the replies.

Jill

 

[seapug]

They are called Sarcothelia edmondsoni.

 

[roxy25]

 

[Timanator]

Well I am pretty much knocked out, Ike killed pretty much all my polyps, the remaining stuff are looking terrible and brown.

 

[Mako Shark II]

Bummer. How long were you without power?

 

[CoralKingdom]

nice variaty

 

[Garage1217]

I purchased a single neon green clove head 3 weeks ago.. In 2 days it tossed out a runner, jumped off the rock and is climbing the glass at a rate of what looks to be 1-2mm a day. I now have 5 heads *LOL* Fastest growing stuff I have ever had in my tank next to xenia. Cannot figure out why fish stores charge so much for it, grows like Bermuda grass haha.

 

[Timanator]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13537731#post13537731 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Mako Shark II
Bummer. How long were you without power?

A week.

 

[Garage1217]

Awh very sorry to hear that, did not read all the way down the post. We had power go out yesterday for 3 hours, scared the crud out of me to the point I was calling around checking on generator prices.

 

[BenJL]

 

[AB-Bug]

cool cloves