May see pics of your candle light coral?
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Znut Reefer
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I have it, but mines still a small frag.
brianbigoats
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do you mean Karl's Candel light?
acropora nut
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MMOTOWM ... How 's the tank ? I haven"t spoke to you in a while........ Mike
Mike all is well as of now. My tank is fine! Never had any problems with algae of anykind. Started using pappone with good results as far as growth is concerned but afterwards had all types of algae problems. Some corals started to STN slowly but all of my parameters were within its proper range. Except my Mg which was kinda low and I have started dosing to bring it up. Just treated my tank this weekend for red bugs. That problem is behind me now but now I have to replenish my pod population and replace my cleaner shrimp. Wasn't about to rearrange my rock in a 150 to get them out
. Other than that I am great!!!!!!!!! How about you?acropora nut
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Tank is doing AWSOME.... Check out this thread
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1140629
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1140629
Nuuze
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Here's info I got from Karl on the piece when I got it from him.
http://reefready.net/add.php?ct=collector&name=Karls+Candlelight+Acro&id=142&page=7
http://reefready.net/add.php?ct=collector&name=Karls+Candlelight+Acro&id=142&page=7
Justin74
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Heres a really bad picture back in October 06, 3 weeks after I got it in mid September. Those are 1 inch frag plugs, and no, its not the one on the left, thats the slimer, its the blury one up top
Here it is today, slightly better pic:
Easily 10x it's size in just under a year
-Justin
Here it is today, slightly better pic:
Easily 10x it's size in just under a year
-Justin
fish2morow
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Excellent thread Mmotown! Hope to see some nice ones.
Unarce
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Hi Warren - Got your PM and figured I'd just post the pics here
A friend of mine picked up this piece from Eddie Hanson's Tropical Paradise in late '04. The frag STN'd to a small 1/4" nub, when he gave it to me in Spring '05. I was able to grow that into the colony pictured below in my old 40g.
I later learned that Steve Tyree and Rich (Sand Dollar) also had the exact same piece. Steve referred to it as the Super Chesterfieldensis, and Rich, the Flashlight Coral. Steve isn't sure if he still has his, but Rich's colony was lost. However, some of it was distributed to a couple of fellow reefers locally, and in Arizona.
Before I distributed a couple of frags through ExoticReefs and UltimateFrags, John (tubs) asked if I could come up with a different name for my version. That's when I eventually called it the Candlelight Acro. I've been told that it's possibly an Acropora kimbeensis.
It has a reputation of being hard to keep, unfortunately. Which is why there isn't much of it, outside of Northern California. Once established, however, it grows quite steadily.
What I like most about the piece, is that it can maintain the bright tips at the bottom, and even the corners of a tank. Brightening up those darker, difficult-to-fill areas. You'll get the bright yellow-green tips with a tan body. Up high, the tips become more intense, and the body begins to frost, as shown here:
Here are pics of my two colonies, which are both kept at the bottom.
This one gets high flow:
This one gets low flow:
I don't know if Matt (reefready) still has some left.
HTH
Karl
A friend of mine picked up this piece from Eddie Hanson's Tropical Paradise in late '04. The frag STN'd to a small 1/4" nub, when he gave it to me in Spring '05. I was able to grow that into the colony pictured below in my old 40g.
I later learned that Steve Tyree and Rich (Sand Dollar) also had the exact same piece. Steve referred to it as the Super Chesterfieldensis, and Rich, the Flashlight Coral. Steve isn't sure if he still has his, but Rich's colony was lost. However, some of it was distributed to a couple of fellow reefers locally, and in Arizona.
Before I distributed a couple of frags through ExoticReefs and UltimateFrags, John (tubs) asked if I could come up with a different name for my version. That's when I eventually called it the Candlelight Acro. I've been told that it's possibly an Acropora kimbeensis.
It has a reputation of being hard to keep, unfortunately. Which is why there isn't much of it, outside of Northern California. Once established, however, it grows quite steadily.
What I like most about the piece, is that it can maintain the bright tips at the bottom, and even the corners of a tank. Brightening up those darker, difficult-to-fill areas. You'll get the bright yellow-green tips with a tan body. Up high, the tips become more intense, and the body begins to frost, as shown here:
Here are pics of my two colonies, which are both kept at the bottom.
This one gets high flow:
This one gets low flow:
I don't know if Matt (reefready) still has some left.
HTH
Karl
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