Green Slimer's ... anyone?

[spankey]

Jackson that is sickly insane! Awesome but also insane! That thing is imense...

Any rate, here is my green slimmer when I recieved it back about 5 months ago..

Here is a top down shot since. Its coming along nicely.

Nice photo's reefer's....

 

[zapata41]

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here's mine, about 10mo. growth from a single polyp, started with about 4 polyps but after superglue ended up with one.

 

[Philwd]

close up of my slimer.

 

[spankey]

Besides my digi's this coral is the fastest growing coral I have... I love it.

Spank.

 

[cooper9177]

blue slimer

 

[MiddletonMark]

Got as a couple inch frag, here it was at 2 years

Out during tank maintenance 6 months ago

While `common' ... likely will always be a favorite Acropora for me. Nice color, easy to grow, great stag-shapes, and hardy. What not to like?

 

[Hef]

The Green Slimer sure seems to Vary a lot in growth form and color. Mine is not a real fast grower, although it has been taking off lately. I've shared a lot of frags of this over the past two years. Very Bright Green. Nice Coral.

 

[Justin/TiV]

mine under actinic VHO's

 

[Philwd]

Hef mine is more like yours in color and growth. Got it from Tyree about a yr ago. I got a 1.5" encrusted base with a single 1" branch. It popped multiple thick branches and is pretty dense at the base. Maybe its how the frag was placed. Horizontal vs. vertical.

 

[MiddletonMark]

Hef - yours IMO is more of the `Green Bali Slimer' type ... I have one that was claimed to be from Tyree, and IMO the growth is much denser, coral body is more colored, and has rounded ends on the coralites vs. the `tube/squared' type ends of the coralites on my `traditional' green slimer.

Look quite similar, but IMO, the coralites and esp the shape of the tips show a significant difference.

Had both in my tank for a couple years now, and IMO they're different corals - though both hardy, green, and generally staghorn-like. IMO, the Tyree one grows slower.

Both sweet corals, but IMO, there is more than one coral variety labeled as `green slimer'.

 

[Philwd]

Good points Mark. My tips are definitely more rounded. Can't say it is a slow grower. Its doing about an inch/month right now.

 

[wayne_sreef]

Here is mine.

 

[Sk8r]

Mine is off a real old colony [1997] and consequently is 'knotty.' It starts thicker and is very, very green. I've come to wonder if the intense color [in spite of being very high up under the lights, which is supposed to produce yellow] is because it does come from relatively far down on an old piece. It's yellow only on the extreme growth tips. The mother colony is knotty, too, with a thick main trunk and a thickly branching habit with lots of knots and bumps. In some ways, this specimen almost grows like digitata. Looking at these, flow does seem to have a major effect on growth pattern.

 

[JamesJR]

sorry for being fecitious but I am just curious, but why do we call them green "slimer" corals? And what is the difference between a "bali slimer" and a green "slimer?" And how do we even know if they are from bali?

 

[Letmegrow]

You have to touch one or see the movie Ghostbuster to understand JamesJR.

 

[JamesJR]

I had one but I don't recall it being slimy. Ghostbusters was before my time.

 

[Letmegrow]

Ghostbusters was BEFORE your time ?!!!!
You must be very young. :lol:

Imagine a St. Bernard with a sinus infection.

 

[JamesJR]

I remember the Ghostbusters but was too young to be into that sort of thing. I am young but I've been keeping fish long as I can remember. I had my first saltwater tank in elementary school.

 

[jay24k]

If you've been in saltwater 14 years, I don't see how you missed ghostbusters lol.

They feel like the slimiest feeling

 

[Letmegrow]

I was born in '82 and Ghostbusters was the highlight of my childhood ! :lol: :lol: