Nephthea or stereonepthea corals

[RyanEG]

So who's got what and are you able to share? I've seen some of the green ones and failled at keeping one once. But I'd like to try again. Lets see what you have!

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

Mine is third third generation back to me that I picked up from Sanjay in 07; I lost my colony in late 08 breaking my heart because it was birthday money my lil sis gave me to buy corals. I was fortunate to give a frag to a very nice club member who I was recently able to hook up with and get a frag of it back.

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

Here's an old pic of my colony that amongst a good handful of other mistakes neglect killed:

and a current actinic photo, I sure hope to see it fluoresce as an animal as large or larger as its grandparent:

 

[RyanEG]

Very nice! Thank you for sharing. Can we talk a little about care and placement of these guys? Lighting and flow requirement?

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

the first tank was pretty high nutrients, no skimmer, carbon, gac... just regular water changes and two hagen 110 hobs w/sponge filters, medium flow and three 46.5" vho. The tank its in now is a much higher flow (+50X turnover) sps geared tank (though has really become "mixed") I run carbon, and gfo 24/7. Its placed off to the side in a lower light position under a 250 w m80 ballast and a new style reflector. Its in very much an opposite tank from my earlier one. The tank this frag came from was a large sps geared mixed reef with very good nutrient control; the owner said the coral didn't show very fast growth, nevertheless, it did well for a few years. It should be adaptable to different tanks based on my experience, though I haven't it in this tank for very long it is looking very well adapted.