I'll show you some of my Micromussa if you'll show me some of yours

[thecichlidpleco]

What are some quality places to get micros online?

 

[racerw]

lookin good Doc Saturn is awesome

 

[ReefDoctorMicromussas]

you guys make me smile Thank You Stacey er Michael?

 

[Creetin]

Hey doc, The indy micro is turning green and red. Do they preffere low light to keep the purple?

 

[neyugn0w01]

Chris,
I really do like that SATURN.

 

[racerw]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9232687#post9232687 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Creetin
Hey doc, The indy micro is turning green and red. Do they preffere low light to keep the purple?

I'm sure Doc will correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the Indy micro loves light & he keeps it up high in his tank under 250 20K's I think....I think the Indy micro is awesome looking, I have been admiring it for awhile now!!!!!! soon very soon

 

[ReefDoctorMicromussas]

Stacie is right, I have never had the ID in any other light than the 2X250 20K Radiums with 4X110 VHO way up high.... BURNING high in the tank...... There it is always actually a Royal Blue with a Cherry red..... I have not ever seen it either purple or green? someone else in a forum had mentioned that it maybe "faded" ? under the lower light in her tank... it might have been Alicia??? anyway, get that puppy up high under strong light

 

[ReefDoctorMicromussas]

Stacie and Lam Yes I am loving that Saturn also LOL when I first got it .. it was just kinda a drab green... I was ready to get rid of the whole colony.. then it showed some pink as it aclimated to my lights then some light purple edging and now do you see that almost orange ring coming in hehe I am liking it ...

Another sleeper morph is the Chocolate fondue... it just started out almost brown with green centers but slowley became red with green and Now amazingly and this part excites me hehe it is developing centralized, radiating green lines out from the center like clock hands LOL its gonna be a sweet one.

New more acclimated Saturn Pic

 

[slojmn]

Yup, it was me. My Independence Day came in looking fairly light, I figured just shipping stress. It has been in the tank for 5 weeks and I have left it up high but it still looks like this picture from last month when I recieved it. The only difference is that the center of the mouths has darkened and the outer ring in the mouth has gone to a teal color. The red is very deep and the outer ring is still light grayish. Funny...my Sweet Tooth from Chris bleached out under the lights after a week and I had to drop it to the bottom and the Purple Haze has stayed very light, only starting to barely darken a bit since I moved it to the bottom of the tank off to the side. The Sweet Tooth is coming back slowly but surely. I don't get it at all since Chris keeps everything way up high under his lights. Weird.
Oh BTW, not sure it is lower light per se, I run 2 x 250w 14K phoenix bulbs...no actinic supplemetation though.

 

[ReefDoctorMicromussas]

My lighting DOES have the VHO actinics... I'll try and add a couple of other shots here... more colony shots... hang on

 

[ReefDoctorMicromussas]

Here is a non direct shot of her from the Halloween candy bowl

Another..... In this one I was aiming for the Floyd

Ok here is the full colony before I started cutting her up

 

[Fliger]

Here is a recent pic of mine, I think it hasn't received enough light. Beautiful coral.

Here is an old pic, you can see it on the left - had a lot more blue. It was much bluer when I got it, I'm sure it would color back up.

I can't tell if this is it or not. Its an old picture and I've kind of lost track.

 

[Fliger]

Doh. I should have looked harder. Here we go. Stunning, I need to get that color back.

 

[Creetin]

Thaks doc, It looks like the last pic there now. It did look purple under 10k's and high light. Now its under a 14k phoenix.
Maybe i'll try to put it neat the 400's again and see what that does. The red is crazy dsark, Just the purple looks more green now, But it is going thru a growth spurt.
I got it from captin picard. He beemed one over with the romulan warbird.

 

[good one]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9185935#post9185935 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Trauma D
Well I got some pictures of mine, some from Doctor.....some from myself....others from Mike at captivereef....

With Phoenix Bulbs no flash

Flash

flash

Sorry for the blah pictures its from my little SD10...
Sour apples, snowblind, blackjack,rainbows,red/pink/white,red/white/green,some others ones I have no clue on the name....I'll get a few other pictures soon too...

-Dave

WOW, nice Duncan!! TRaumaD

 

[slojmn]

Mine looks a lot like David's last picture from that kind of distance. Seems to be in line with what others are saying about their pieces. Maybe the extra VHO pop helps bring out the darker colors. The BlackJack is realy holding the dark colors and looks awesome. We shall see what the future brings on the Independence Day. I agree with Creetin, the red in the ID is so "crazy dark" and lovely . Doc you have the best Micros around .

 

[ReefDoctorMicromussas]

Thank you Alicia I am really glad you guys like them... Actinics absolutely help..The argument can rage but I still believe that actinics simlulate the depths from which the corals naturally occur.. heck they also make the colors POP! But even so my ID is still blue and red even when I have it out aways from the reef lighting on the cutting board for fragging... under only 100 watt lamp... I wonder if somehow the zoanthela in it starts to die off under lower lighting.. (not refering to lower systems.. but distance from the bulb vs. PAR) That one pic it seems so bleached out almost like a Carpet anemone that has been kept under PC rather than MH for 6 months? I donno I cannot think of a better explianation

 

[da6d2003]

LOL, it's taken me days to get to the end of this thread.

Here is my 1st contribution.

I thought kpk might like to see how his baby is doing.

 

[slojmn]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9240293#post9240293 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by doctor64776
Thank you Alicia I am really glad you guys like them... Actinics absolutely help..The argument can rage but I still believe that actinics simlulate the depths from which the corals naturally occur.. heck they also make the colors POP! But even so my ID is still blue and red even when I have it out aways from the reef lighting on the cutting board for fragging... under only 100 watt lamp... I wonder if somehow the zoanthela in it starts to die off under lower lighting.. (not refering to lower systems.. but distance from the bulb vs. PAR) That one pic it seems so bleached out almost like a Carpet anemone that has been kept under PC rather than MH for 6 months? I donno I cannot think of a better explianation

The interesting thing about that picture is that I took it the day after I received the frag...that is how it looked when I pulled it out of the bag from shipping. It has not changed a ton since then, maybe a little deepening but still pretty grayish in that outer edge and it is sitting up in the upper half of the tank right under the metal halides. I will try and snap another picture of it in the same manner as I snapped the original and see side by side how it looks. I can't imagine my PAR is all that much less than yours, but I am light challenged and never know what is what . I'm upgrading to a T5/MH fixture in the next few months , it will be interesting to see what happens then. The Orange Mist looks dead on like your pictures and sits right next to the ID in my tank. All very interesting...corals change in different tanks, that is just a fact. I am on a quest to "bring sexy back" to my Independence Day .

 

[Fliger]

Alicia, which fixture are you getting?

Here is a purple/green, I have a few of them under different names - I really like this one.

Not a micro but I'm stoked that I've finally got this Lord to grow out. The mother is spectacular. Trying to nurse the one on the right back to life.