Favia Show Off Thread

[sooja]

Wow!!! Some really nice looking pieces out there!

How are some of you taking the macros? Love the detail.

Anyway, here are mine

Christmas

Incredible Hulk

 

[Sheol]

Sooja: Those are two pieces that absolutely BELONG on this thread. Some of the most colorful I've seen in recent weeks.
Psycho killer sweeet! LOL

Matthew

 

[Sheol]

Well, just changed lights to T5's. Wonder how this will effect my Favia? I hope color changes for the better, the old lights were 3 years old about 1.5 years due for a change.

Matthew

 

[melev]

Matthew, you probably should reduce the photo period or elevate the lights a few inches to avoid burning your corals. The intensity will be signficantly higher with brand new bubs of the three year old bulbs.

 

[Justin74]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13515173#post13515173 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
Matthew, you probably should reduce the photo period or elevate the lights a few inches to avoid burning your corals. The intensity will be signficantly higher with brand new bubs of the three year old bulbs.

Definitely +1!!

-Justin

 

[sooja]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13510151#post13510151 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Sheol
Sooja: Those are two pieces that absolutely BELONG on this thread. Some of the most colorful I've seen in recent weeks.
Psycho killer sweeet! LOL

Matthew

Thanks bud!

As soon as I saw the "Incredible" I had to chop a frag off.. the original colony was HUGE. My buddy and I took a 1/10 each of the main colony.

 

[melev]

I saw some stunning favias while I was visiting Salt Lake City last week. As soon as I can get those edited, they'll be posted in this thread. I find myself looking for corals to photograph solely to post in this thread. Freakin' OCD!





Is that enough of a teaser?

 

[rynon]

New one arriving on Tuesday. Nothing super special but I like the colors and it was pretty cheap. Red, green and a line of blue between the corallites.

 

[faulkincanyon]

my new favia

my new favia

heres a pic of my new favia

 

[roblack]

A frag of this is heading my way =) Sold as a chalice, but I say "Favia!"

 

[faulkincanyon]

by the way what would you say mine is called?? PIC above

 

[rynon]

A Christmas favia or something very similar.

 

[faulkincanyon]

thats what I was thinking...thanks

 

[Sheol]

Looks a little like a Montastrea to me, because of the contrasting patches of color. Well, very nice regardless of name.
Marc & Justin: Well, since the other household member was away from home this weekend, only the actinics alone were on yesterday afternoon. Longer than usual, but since I was working 2nd shift. BTW, these alone are nearly as bright as the old ones. Would they really burn my Favia? I'm not concerned with the Rhodactis/Discosoma weeds on top of the reef, but my hard corals are another matter!

Matthew

 

[bkelley02]

I was going to try and get this too.

Have to post a pic when it comes in to see how close it is to what he had listed.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13528282#post13528282 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by roblack
A frag of this is heading my way =) Sold as a chalice, but I say "Favia!"

 

[melev]

You really need to consider purchasing a timer to turn lights on and off on a schedule to avoid such instances. If you had a PAR meter, you'd know for a fact instead of guesswork when it comes to this.

For now, run up to Walmart and get a timer or two. We can argue who's right, later.

 

[Sheol]

I work for freakin' Wal-mart! I certainly don't need to run there.. LOL
Actually, I had timers from Wally world during my tanks first year. It never worked, because all the timers had weird prong arrangements or never acurately kept time. I had them on the Reptile tanks for awhile, but they were a confounded nuisance. Do you know a good brand of timer?

Sincerely,
Matthew

 

[Kigs]

So, the proud owners of Ridiculously-Expensive-Ebay-PPE-Icantbelievehereallysentonefreakenhead-Favia, let's see some updated pics!

Mine colored up nicely under low light, low flow but growth is incredibly slow.

 

[Sheol]

A little close there, be careful these are AGGRESSIVE corals..

Matthew

 

[Dustin1300]

Is it not amazing how much time you can spend looking at coral pics?