Large SPS colony

[AnAnemone]

Most of the pics I notice on this board, whilst beautiful, show small, frag size corals. I, myself, certainly am proud of my small corals.
I would love to see pics of tanks that have harboured a coral for a long time, such as to grow a large size, relative to the tank, and as such testimony to long term sustained coral growth.
Sometimes I look at the tank pics and I think we're a hobby full of beginners, or people with new tanks and big budgets. I know this is not generally true. We are largely careful hobbiests that have cared for our specimens for years.. Perhaps the load of people with new tank or newly encrusted show-size coral pics is perhaps explained by the fact that as our new corals arrive, colour-up, or encrust, we're so happy we share, yet as we progress in the hobby, we become more comfortable...more confident in ourselves that the need to share for reinforcement diminishes.
I would love to see pics of some mature tanks and particularly larger corals that have grown up in a particular setting and how they respond to them.
Thanks
TimO

 

[AlgaeMan]

Here is a pic of my 300g from Nov. 05. A lot of the colonies are close to 3 years old. This tank has been setup for a year now. I mainly buy wild colonies. However, there are a lot of frags that have grown into colonies. Some of these older colonies have survived a tank crash. You will have to scroll right to see all of the tank.

 

[Kip]

i dont think i will ever be able to let any of my corals get "full sized" .... if i did ... i would only have room for 3-4 corals

 

[143gadgets]

AlgaeMan, your tank ALWAYS impresses me. Where in MD are u located?

 

[blide]

My SPS colonies are very large, but so are my softie's...

 

[AlgaeMan]

AlgaeMan, your tank ALWAYS impresses me. Where in MD are u located?

Thanks Chris. I live in Brunswick MD. I will be vendor at the CMAS seminar in April.

 

[PITSTOP]

Algaeman - sick system!!! I love the dueling-double-barrel-TUNZEs - awesome!

 

[AlgaeMan]

I love the dueling-double-barrel-TUNZEs - awesome!

And they are 6200's. There is a lot of flow in there.

 

[delta410]

nice looking tank AlgaeMan

 

[aural]

AlgaeMan: any issues with your trigger in the tank? i was thinking about putting a niger in an SPS tank (as the only fish)

fantastic setups, guys. Gives me something to aspire to

 

[AlgaeMan]

Myself and a few other friends have Niger's in our reefs. I haven't heard any complaints about them. They seem very docile.

 

[ClownReef®]

WOW!, very nice tanks!

 

[gizmo7718]

AlgaeMan, that tank is crazy!!! I love the full size colonies. Keep it up...

 

[flyin2jz]

algaeman your last post just sounds wrong..... :smokin:

 

[whitesquall]

algeaman,

can we get your system spec's???

 

[icliao]

My 3 years SPS tank.
Dimension: 215cmX90cmX75cm

All colonies starts from frag.

 

[SPSFiend]

I have a couple pretty old and big colonies. These pictures are from December 2005 so things are about 1-2 inches bigger now

LPS:

Big Torch Coral and a huge frogspawn. Last I counted it was 35 heads.

SPS:

I have a couple pretty big montiporahs

 

[64Ivy]

This A.hyacinthus is 18" across and growing up the back wall.

 

[PITSTOP]

I have seen 64Ivy's A. hyacinthus with my own eyes...

Not only is that colony is larger than a large pizza, it glows intensely - while that is a good photograph of the coral, it cannot recreate the way that colony is electrified!


SPSFiend: Awesome!!! Great 120, sweet colonies!


icliao: Awesome as usual - I never get tired of looking at your amazing aquascaping!

 

[SPSFiend]

Wow 64Ivy That is huge! I guess I should just let my monti touch the back wall and grow I keep making more space for it... ;/

Thanks for sharing! Hope to see some more posts! With pics from people!

Thanks PITSTOP!