Show me your watermelons!!

[Maximus]

It's been awhile since I've seen any watermelon echino pics. Don't be shy guys and gals. Show them off here!!

 

[marillion]

Sang, are you *trying* to torture me?

Huh???

Peace,

Chip

 

[SPStoner]

Not the original, but me likee

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[racerw]

Here is our little frag!

 

[Juan-Carlos]

LOTS of watermelon!!

Sorry brotha, could not resist LOL!!:lol:

Love that frag!! Rock on sang!

-Jc

 

[Maximus]

Very nice guys! JC, you clown!!!

 

[neyugn0w01]

Got a frag of the watermelon and it seems to be growing much slower then my other echinos. Why is it that the nicer ones take longer to grow? Nice pictures by the way.

 

[RandyO]

Here is my Watermelon frag about a month after I got it from Hugo. It's under the Wrasse.

June 05

October 05

April 06

April 06 Right before it got fragged up.

 

[wjhuie]

All I can say is WOW!!!

 

[wjhuie]

Spstoner that second one that you posted is awesome whar is that one called, where can I get a frag?

 

[RandyO]

Here's what my Watermelon looks like now.

I cut the coral in half in April. I left one half alone, and cut up the other half into 5-6 frags. I kept 2 of the frags(as seen above) for new grow out pieces. Now I can leave the mother colony alone.

 

[Maximus]

Very impressive Randy. How do you achieve the fast growth rate? Do you feed at all? Also, how large was the original colony when you first cut it? Thanks.

 

[All Delight]

I have a dime sized frag, but my flame ate the green rim. Sucks!

 

[RandyO]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7848030#post7848030 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Maximus
Very impressive Randy. How do you achieve the fast growth rate? Do you feed at all? Also, how large was the original colony when you first cut it? Thanks.

Hey Sang,
I've always had good luck with Echinophyllia. I've been keeping them in my tanks for over 5 years. I don't do anything special with the Watermelon. I left it alone for almost a year before I cut into it.

I've tried feeding the watermelon Echino since it does send out long tentacles at night, but I think it uses them more for sweepers than feeding since it is very clumsy in getting food back to it's mouth.

The piece I got from Hugo was about 1/2", in May 2005.

This is the frag, untouched in April 2006, right before I fragged it.

It had completely covered it's rock mount and was started to go under the rock. I had thought it would plate out and away like most of the other Echinos I have, but it was on a round rock and would shift on the substrate, so maybe it never got the chance to plate.

I've noticed the skeleton on my piece is very thin and breaks free from the frag rock easily, which is good and bad. Good, because it makes it easy to pop off a mount to cut up. But Bad because in that process, it shattered, and made a few tiny fragments. Usually those tiny guys don't make it. Though, I had 2 out of 3 pull through.

 

[neyugn0w01]

Very nice Randy. Great pictures to illustrate the process.

 

[Maximus]

Ahh, that was a good idea to wait a year before fragging it. Thanks for all the info and pics, Randy.

 

[donald altman]

gah I have never seen these before they are amazing.


I would definatly Love a frag of an Echinophyllia I know what I will be looking for for now on !!!

 

[aquaconnect]

I just picked up a ultra small pea sized piece from Rommel, but am on 3 other waiting lists for them. I was going to trade an orange acan maxima frag to John R. for a "nice one" but haven't heard from him in weeks since making the offer and hearing back. Oh well, maybe I can just make some cash on it now since I have one.

 

[WayneL333]

Here's mine. I need to move it soon though. My Monty Caps are getting percariously close. My tubs is right next to it.

 

[stevedola]

did someone say watermelon?