stunreefer
Reef Hugger
Honestly, I'm more of an SPS keeper now days, but as soon as I picked these up I knew I would have to share with the LPS fanatics too! I have been eyeing out these two corals since they came in, a little over nine months ago. they came in with a transhipped aussie order (mostly acans), and these two were in the box too. My friend, who brought them in, held on to these two.
Long story short, I was over at his house again the other day, and he wanted to get a couple other things going on in his tank, and asked, "If you could get anything out of my tank, what would it be?" I pointed/drooled quiickly at these two corals, as usual. An hour or two later, and a couple beers later, he reluctantly bagged them up for me, and off we went to the new home!
Enough chit chat, on with the PICS!!!
Elegance (Catalaphyllia jardinei):
Scolymia sp.:
Now remember this elegance has been in an aquarium for over nine months now, continuously growing bigger! This guy is absolutely out of control!:eek2: Both are much, much brighter than the pics can show!
In all of the pics I have placed a frag plug for size reference, the head of the plug is an inch in diameter.
Here they are during acclimation (yes, I drip acclimated them - no chances taken here!):
Note that his skeleton is only an inch at the bottom, going up to about 3-3.5 inches at the top.
You can barely see the frag plug in the lower right-hand side of this pic, but his skeleton is only about three inches in diameter (he is still very plump, even after the drive home!)
The top pics were taken after being fed on Sunday night, and they are both expanding more than that now. I measured last night, and the Scolymia expands over eight inches in diameter! I will get some more pics and post them soon.
In the midst if feeding:
Top down shot:
Hope you enjoy!
Long story short, I was over at his house again the other day, and he wanted to get a couple other things going on in his tank, and asked, "If you could get anything out of my tank, what would it be?" I pointed/drooled quiickly at these two corals, as usual. An hour or two later, and a couple beers later, he reluctantly bagged them up for me, and off we went to the new home!
Enough chit chat, on with the PICS!!!
Elegance (Catalaphyllia jardinei):
Scolymia sp.:
Now remember this elegance has been in an aquarium for over nine months now, continuously growing bigger! This guy is absolutely out of control!:eek2: Both are much, much brighter than the pics can show!
In all of the pics I have placed a frag plug for size reference, the head of the plug is an inch in diameter.
Here they are during acclimation (yes, I drip acclimated them - no chances taken here!):
Note that his skeleton is only an inch at the bottom, going up to about 3-3.5 inches at the top.
You can barely see the frag plug in the lower right-hand side of this pic, but his skeleton is only about three inches in diameter (he is still very plump, even after the drive home!)
The top pics were taken after being fed on Sunday night, and they are both expanding more than that now. I measured last night, and the Scolymia expands over eight inches in diameter! I will get some more pics and post them soon.
In the midst if feeding:
Top down shot:
Hope you enjoy!
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