Fragging my corals almost hurts..me

[surfjeepzx]

but I had to trim a few back as they were really starting to shade the lower corals.

These are going to a friends store in trade for some others. I've been promising him I would mow the tank lawn some day and today was it. I still have to trim a few others but didn't want to cut too much in one day.

This one was shading the 30K lokani below it. Only the very ends of the lokani that stuck out in the light turned purple.
This pic with my point and shoot doesn't come anywhere clse to the actual corals color. The frag pic is closer but still the camera just doesn't do it.
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I took this pic under the canopy with the tank lights
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and this pic outside in the sun
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In my tankthis coral looks every bit of red white & blue. Outside of the tank the blue obviously looks purple and the red looks brown. Pics can be deceiving!

 

[surfjeepzx]

here's the next one

This coral was just shading the whole lower half of the tank. I can't wait to see the caps and pavona start to battle again.

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Here's the frag I cut with inside and outside pics. I can say that the green of this coral is lime/pea green in the tank and very different outside the tank. Even looking down from above gives the coral a more vibrant green and reddish polyp appearance.

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[jdhuyvetter]

I feel your pain. I've got corals that I've let grow untouched for almost 18 months. Now I'm having shading problems. Every time I cut, it hurts me more than the coral.

 

[chrisstie]

It hurts me too when I reach in my 55g and my clumsy hand bangs against my monti cap. Ow! Then oh, a frag! A coral that grows so wide probably shouldn't be in a tank only 12" thick but its grown in so much I dont think I'd ever get it out.

Will just have to keep fragging it everytime i scrape down the glass

 

[ItalianPete17]

It looks to me you did a good job on your fragging.Are you selling any of those?

 

[Cheekymonkey]

yea i would take the frags let me know.

 

[skinnyjoe1976]

great job and nice looking coral. remember the orca frag auction is at the end of this month. pm me for the details

 

[surfjeepzx]

Skinny,
CheekyMonkey PM'd me so I just pm'd him back. The frags in the pics went to my friends aquarium store. I traded him for some unique peices that I just got thru placing in my tank. Those peices were the bulk of what needed trimming but there's more where they came from.