causeofhim
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Is this the lighting that they are under -2x 175W SE (Iwasaki 15,000K)? No actinics?
My Palau Nepthea and Purple Xenia
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Very cool nepthea....I have a frag of it that is growing very slowly (went from about 1" to 2.5" in abut 6 months).
Are you experiencing better growth with your's? I didn't think they would grow sideways like that, I have it in a spot in my tank that was picked for the way I thought it would grow, vertically.
Mine is pretty temperamental, sometimes opening op for 2-3 days all the time during lights on, and other days not opening at all until lights go off....But at night it expands to 3+ inches...Really strange.
Rest of the corals in the tank are doing great, this one just seems really finicky. If you could share anything that you noticed that helped in the growth/PE of yours that would be awesome.
Are you experiencing better growth with your's? I didn't think they would grow sideways like that, I have it in a spot in my tank that was picked for the way I thought it would grow, vertically.
Mine is pretty temperamental, sometimes opening op for 2-3 days all the time during lights on, and other days not opening at all until lights go off....But at night it expands to 3+ inches...Really strange.
Rest of the corals in the tank are doing great, this one just seems really finicky. If you could share anything that you noticed that helped in the growth/PE of yours that would be awesome.
Patwa
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Great question!.....growth has been a very weird one for me....in my tank this coral grows incredibly SLOW.......believe it or not, that colony I have pictured is at least 3 years old...and i've only fragged it a handful of times.
To top it off, the colony from which I got the original frag has more then quadrupled in size since then (heck, that's a conservative estimate.....in fact, i've seen frags taken from the same original mother that now dwarf my colony....and it's the SAME CORAL!
BUT....the one thing that no one else has that I can lay claim to is the colour!.....nobody has been able to re-create the same intense neon electric green that my colony shows. Everyone I know who has this coral is able to have it grow like there is no tomorrow, but no one can make it appear as neon green as it does in my tank...go figure!
Zach
gflat65
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Zach,
I hope you don't mind me putting this here, but it ties into your pics.
I thought I was proving my theory on polyp structure, but I think I just made the water even muddier for myself. Several have the same polyps structure (or seemingly), though there are a couple that are noticably different.
Skinny leather-mostly brown, but fluoresces yellowish with green, and purplish hues (just hues)
Polyps are somewhat basket like, but difficult to make out in the pictures. These seem to resemble the next ones somewhat closely, depending on conditions. In the pictures, the next one (I've been calling Nephthea) shows polyps that are really open. Usually, they are more closed like a Xenia polyp and they more resemble the leather above. They seem to be different growth forms, though.
Ticked off
The polyp structure on this one, I was calling Sinularia. I have more pics to take of a different green one (this one is a lot more green than shown in pics, but has brown polyps). The polyps seem more cylindrical than the others, and don't have as much a basket shape.
I hope you don't mind me putting this here, but it ties into your pics.
I thought I was proving my theory on polyp structure, but I think I just made the water even muddier for myself. Several have the same polyps structure (or seemingly), though there are a couple that are noticably different.
Skinny leather-mostly brown, but fluoresces yellowish with green, and purplish hues (just hues)
Polyps are somewhat basket like, but difficult to make out in the pictures. These seem to resemble the next ones somewhat closely, depending on conditions. In the pictures, the next one (I've been calling Nephthea) shows polyps that are really open. Usually, they are more closed like a Xenia polyp and they more resemble the leather above. They seem to be different growth forms, though.
Ticked off
The polyp structure on this one, I was calling Sinularia. I have more pics to take of a different green one (this one is a lot more green than shown in pics, but has brown polyps). The polyps seem more cylindrical than the others, and don't have as much a basket shape.
gflat65
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This one pulses, so we have been calling it a Pulsing Sinularia, but I'm doubting now...
These are not arboreal, just cloves, I think. When I got them, then were retracted and looked like tiny shiny blue Cespit stalks. Now they look like cloves. I thought they looked siminlar to the "Pulsing Sinularia" above.
I think I've secured a nice sized piece of the Palau Nephthea
. I've wanted one for almost a decade (since garf started looking for them). I should have it this Saturday.
These are not arboreal, just cloves, I think. When I got them, then were retracted and looked like tiny shiny blue Cespit stalks. Now they look like cloves. I thought they looked siminlar to the "Pulsing Sinularia" above.
I think I've secured a nice sized piece of the Palau Nephthea
. I've wanted one for almost a decade (since garf started looking for them). I should have it this Saturday.
gflat65
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Drock,
I'll get a better pciture. The stalks are thinner than pencil lead. There is only one head per stalk, too. They stolon out, too (thin stolons rather than fatter ones like the Cespit).
I've not seen the Palau Nephthea for sale very often, or the purple Cepsit at all. I paid $65 for the blue Cespit that is similar to the purple (top down).
I'll get a better pciture. The stalks are thinner than pencil lead. There is only one head per stalk, too. They stolon out, too (thin stolons rather than fatter ones like the Cespit).
I've not seen the Palau Nephthea for sale very often, or the purple Cepsit at all. I paid $65 for the blue Cespit that is similar to the purple (top down).
saltwaterpimp
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I have had the same questions Nephthea or Sinularia ?
Read This
http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic94064-9-1.aspx
Read This
http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic94064-9-1.aspx
VengefulNemesis
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This Nephthea color also got me interested, beautiful color. I found this on LA. http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=597+1492+2295+2759&pcatid=2759
mark728
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Here are some of mine the darker nepthea is a rare coral that i picked up a couple of years ago from a lfs now fragged a couple of times what they have in a show tank is rare iv'e seen guys that are big into this hobby go nuts over there nepthea it's a rare form not seen much in the hobby trade just my 2 cent's ,the 1st pic is of that and the rest are the more common seen ones .great thread
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causeofhim
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I lucked out and was able to pick up a small frag of atlantis green nepthia. I'm not sure how the Atlantis differs (if you know, tell me) but the color looks the same.
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