Picture of the Week - tank-raised corals!

[melev]

Do you have a coral you raised from a fraglet? Let's see it!

Here's a chunk of a Toadstool Leather I brought home from a MACNA workshop a few years ago.

Sept 2003

And here it is a few years later.

March 2006

Actually, it is even prettier now, so I'll take a new picture over the weekend and add it to the thread later.

What's in your tank?

 

[MiddletonMark]

My green slimer probably is the most dramatic, sure has been a great coral to grow.

Don't have a pic from in August 2003 when I got it, but I've got this progression:

Then this recent one [March 2006]:

 

[gregr]

I just now had to frag my Slimer I woulda had a similar picture to yours Mark- got it as a small frag a year ago and the thing just took off... until a couple days ago darnit.
Great idea for a thread though!

 

[kirstenk]

The before pics were taken in Aug. 2004.

ORA Turq Stag

Blue Millie

 

[melev]

Gregr, just photoshop the pieces together for us.

I just thought of another coral I can show you from my collection, but honestly it can be almost any type of coral that has grown substantially. Even a zingle zoa can turn into a beautiful colony.

 

[melev]

This thread needs a bump. Not nearly enough people participated.

 

[Snausages01]

It grew like this for a while:

Then I laid it on it side because it got too big:

 

[30galreefkeepr]

<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y85/silentiumaereum/IMG_3954.jpg">
Just getting started
<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y85/silentiumaereum/603.jpg">
Caught red handed.

<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y85/silentiumaereum/IMG_3832.jpg">
baby derasa
<img src="http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y85/silentiumaereum/601.jpg">
5 months later

 

[concept3]

oh boy do I have growth pics from frags to colonies-

I don't want to hog the thread yet though-


maybe later.

 

[melev]

Bring it on, Concept3!

 

[concept3]

Feb 2004

April 2004

Oct 2004

Feb 2005

June 2005

AND a macro shot:

 

[concept3]

okay, okay. that's one frag.


My whole tank was started from frags.

it's just too much to paste up right now, I'm gonna copy and paste from a former thread of mine, new thread comin' up!

 

[melev]

Very nice!

 

[jwedehase]

Once upon a time (October 2004), I picked up a rock from the LFS that had some sort of encrusting on it, but I didn't know what it would turn out to be.

So I watched it grow under PCs, and here's what it looked like in December. It's actually the smaller one in the back.

The only semi-recent shot I have of this coral is a full tank shot. And since we're talking about growth... I actually recently put this full tank animation together. These two shots are two months apart, after the addition of a calcium reactor. The peach millepora with green polyps in question is now the largest coral in my tank. It's the large tabling one on the right.