Gulf of Mexico corals available

[divemonster]

Richard, thank you for the C.A.R.E. package! The beautiful hard corals you sent had their polyps out in a couple of hours. I will post pictures of the different corals as soon as I get them off the camera.

By the way, I got popped on the finger by a pistol shrimp while unpacking the corals. It stung for an hour afterward. I've been hit by a wennerae and ounce for ounce the pistols are much nastier.

 

[liverock]

Attitude

Attitude

Was it one of those ity bitty yellow ones with a little red in the smasher claw?

They get me all the time, 1/4 of an inch long but with a big attitude!



Richard TBS:rollface::rollface::rollface:

 

[divemonster]

Yep!

Yep!

Attitude is right! Do you need new gloves? Got some in, let me know...

Now for the pictures :fun2:

Here are 2 coral colonies on 1 rock. Note the coralline growth...

A different rock, with same type of colony (Tube coral? Richard please identify)

This flat rock had some macroalgae:

Round rock with 2 types of hard coral and lots of caulerpa:

Another colony:

An EXCELLENT hard coral colony! I almost crapped myself when I saw this one

This is the rock where the pistol shrimp popped me.

 

[UnlcleLuke]

Oculina