palythoa grandis (sun polyp)

[nUgZ]

Great pieces everyone!! Here are some of mine.

 

[dragonladylea]

Here are mine.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Sellout, They certainly have the same stucture. I've always been told they were button polyps.

 

[alpine]

Hey guys just wanted to give a heads up that www.reefscavengers.com is having a sale on them.I bought a 5 polyps for $16.99.

Just to let everybody know,no I do not work for them or am I affiliated with thme.Just thought I would pass on the sale.

When I first got a frag of these was about 4 yrs ago when we lived in Chicago.The guy I got them from had a massive colony with about 100-150 polyps.Lucky for me he gave me a frag of 6 polyps for free,since I was buying a frags of all the other corals he had.I had never seen such a huge colony of these guys before.They were literally taking up the entire botom of his 58galrr tank.The coolest thing was that he had 4 clams that were entirely engulfed by the grandis.All you could see was there mantels.

I think they are gorgeous and cant wait to receive the frag I bought the other day.Will definately post a pic when they get here.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Thanks! Sellout, let me know if you want to go in on some.

 

[mfinn]

I see other people have lost some of these to a fungus of some sort.
I lost these

 

[nUgZ]

Oh man that's terrible news mfinn. Those were beautiful.

 

[mfinn]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11870808#post11870808 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nUgZ
Oh man that's terrible news mfinn. Those were beautiful.

Thanks, yeah,, I was just crushed, Hit new lows of depression.:sad1:

 

[alpine]

mfinn
I can not believe you lost those.I would of been crying,those palys were freakin awesome.So sorry you lost them.

 

[alpine]

Thought I would give this great thread a bump back to the top with a pic of the Grandis I bought from Reef Scavengers. Keep in mind I suck at taking pics.

 

[Questin]

good god mfinn, those things were awesome! I want some now!

 

[tsr770]

Here are some of mine, got them as a freebie from a local guy that imports and sells inverts out of his house

 

[shane 1111]

how is every ones growth on them? mine grow pretty slow

 

[650-IS350]

Lost all mine to fungus too and other stuff. but have the opportunity to get more when I feel like it.

 

[alpine]

The growth on mine are pretty slow as well.The last ones I had in my old 75 gallon grew slow as well.

 

[shane 1111]

I am trying to feed them to speed up the growth. but it doesn't seem to do much

 

[nUgZ]

The growth is generally slow. Maybe a polyp every month or so. But it does take the babies a while to grow to full size. It also depends on how many you have...one or two won't grow as quickly as a small colony.

 

[wrasseguy2]

mine grow slow also...i have had mine since oct. and i have 4 polyps and 3 new baby polyps but like said above it takes the small ones quite some time to grow into large ones..i feed mine one mysis a day

 

[str8clownr]

how did you guys get this fungus in your tank? did it come on those colonies of the grandis??? this fungus is something i definitely dont want in my tank... any idea on how to combat it, or identify it?

 

[str8clownr]

anyone?