Show me your mature icefire echinata
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Logzor
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Logan, I saw your icefire colony photo on the other forum, and being that I am joined to so many forums, I've not come across anyone else with such a large colony and looking so stunning. So the prize most certainly goes to you.
Haha, thanks man! There was a guy from Cleveland that used to have a larger colony, not sure what has happened to that aquarium since, it was a few years ago when I had seen the pictures online. Maybe I can keep this colony going another 6 years, surely I'll need a larger aquarium by then!
reefmutt
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reefmutt
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Here is mine. At least i think its a echinata.
Looks like it..
How long have you had it?
Was it a colony or a frag when you got it?
I have only had it for about 2-3 months.. It was a colony when i got it. It was in a ausi import, that a dealer had done. I took the chance, and bought it even though my luck with Echinatas hasent ben that greath before. But so far this one have grown quite a bit, so mabye i were just lucky..
Piper27
I love bengals
Here is mine, I've had it for over 5 years. I run T5's (almost 100% blues) and blue reefbrite LEDs as supplement.
Stunning growth form!!!!
Amazing color!!!!
Thanks to both of you for posting. I would love to have this one, one day, but each piece I see come in goes to stores that brown them out or bleach them. I can't ever seem to find one thats healthy or a new arrival that looks worth the risk. And no one near me that I know has one that's worth getting a piece from.
Thanks, I have a 180g zeovit tank with 2x tunze 6105 for flow and ati hybrid 8 bulb unit.
It gets better coloration lower in the tank
Buy a brown one they color up easily, I find echinata an easier to keep sps with bright colorStunning growth form!!!!
Amazing color!!!!
Thanks to both of you for posting. I would love to have this one, one day, but each piece I see come in goes to stores that brown them out or bleach them. I can't ever seem to find one thats healthy or a new arrival that looks worth the risk. And no one near me that I know has one that's worth getting a piece from.
Piper27
I love bengals
Yea I have much better luck with brown corals as well, unfortunately the places I see them browned at are not good with keeping clean corals so I pass most of the time. I am holding off for an aquacultures piece to get some better luck. Also most of the time this coral comes in bleached, 90 percent of the time. I got a brown coral last month, now its purple with neon pink polyps, just one month is all it took, I love coral 
Keep the pics coming!
Keep the pics coming!
markalot
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Mine is getting hard to photograph.
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Grown entirely under DIY Cree LEDs. It is bigger now
Hi Therman,
so what are your long term secrets to growing this coral?
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