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[dvanacker]

I can't believe it's been almost a year since I posted this pic. Well, here's an update:

This is an early pic of the colony. I originally grew it from like a 1" frag. This pic was taken like Dec of '11:

Another update in a year hopefully

You are the SSC master. Nicest colony I've seen grown from a frag.

I find my SSC growth is quite slow.....almost two years now and just a mini colony...started from a decent sized frag too.

 

[Piper27]

I agree ^

With all the variety, yours is the only one so far that looks very similar to ours, Good job Wayne! Where did you get the piece from? I would love to see a close up of the polyps in the center if you have one.

 

[WayneL333]

Thanks guys, it just kind of took off in my tank. I got it from a lfs called Age of Aquariums here in LA. They're a great local shop for corals. I've actually picked up a lot of my frags there as they carried a lot of ORA frags. Anyway, I've recently picked up 2 other wild SSC variants frags from them. I'm curious to see how they'll end up. I'll keep you guys posted.

 

[WayneL333]

I agree ^

With all the variety, yours is the only one so far that looks very similar to ours, Good job Wayne! Where did you get the piece from? I would love to see a close up of the polyps in the center if you have one.

Hey there. thanks! do you mean the center of the colony? No I don't. They colony is hard to photograph because I have to tilt it to get a good angel on it. Let me see what I can do the next time I break out my camera.

 

[Moser]

Mo it's a beautiful piece how high do you have it or low it's got amazing green and pink very intense

Thanks Franky,

My tank is 6ftx8ftx3ft tall. I have 7x400W Reeflux 10K and 2x400W Radiums.
This piece was sat on the floor of the tank for about 2 weeks or so, under a Radium. Much of the coral was still quite brown, with thick skin"¦ i.e. healthy tissue, so I moved it up between 2 Reeflux 10K's. about 6 weeks ago.
It's about 3 inches under the water, but half way between two bulbs. It also has 1 KZ Fiji Purple and 1 Narve Blue T5 directly over it.

I haven't measured PAR, but it sits in intense light"¦ likely around 600 PAR.
I have a few spots in the tank around 800 PAR.

The flow in my tank is huge. It receives indirect flow, but lots of it.

So, very high 10K Halide light ( with Blue and pink T5). Very high indirect flow.

Mo

 

[Moser]

You are the SSC master. Nicest colony I've seen grown from a frag.

I find my SSC growth is quite slow.....almost two years now and just a mini colony...started from a decent sized frag too.

I have to agree with Darryll, this is probably the best SSC colony I have seen. How are you managing to hold it up. Did you just detach the rock it's growing on?...

Good work!.

Mo

 

[WayneL333]

I have to agree with Darryll, this is probably the best SSC colony I have seen. How are you managing to hold it up. Did you just detach the rock it's growing on?...

Good work!.

Mo

I originally mounted it on a pretty dense rock so luckily it can support the colony weight right now. The rock is also completely encrusted by colony. That's actually my wife's hand holding up the colony while I was taking the picture.

 

[Flagswipe]

Mine a month or so ago

I actually have 4 different pieces in my tank. This is by far the nicest one. Two others were sold to me as SSC but but shame on those guys, they were not.

Just picked up another nice piece, we will see how this one turns out. This is my favorite in the tank for sure, I wouldnt mind having it all over

Nice SSC everyone!

 

[Flagswipe]

Here is one of the imitation pieces, likely from Indo somewhere, its a crappy pic and it looks better in person, just does not have the colour

 

[Blueline12]

OG Unique Corals Strawberry Shortcake

 

[watchguy123]

I have a couple of little colonies from different sources so they look a bit different:

 

[Allmost]

so jealous, this is the most beautiful coral.

cant wait to find a piece ...

 

[takayan]

As of August. It slowly grows.

 

[Touring]

Mine a month or so ago

I actually have 4 different pieces in my tank. This is by far the nicest one. Two others were sold to me as SSC but but shame on those guys, they were not.

Just picked up another nice piece, we will see how this one turns out. This is my favorite in the tank for sure, I wouldnt mind having it all over

Nice SSC everyone!

dosent look like a ssc to me but oh well its nice....

 

[irishkiddo]

Very nice!

 

[tmantaylor18]

so jealous, this is the most beautiful coral.

cant wait to find a piece ...

Whats overnight shipping from the US cost? My LFS has a bunch of frags for cheap.

 

[stonecold]

Here's mine.

 

[trueblackpercula]

Here's mine.

You win lol

 

[WayneL333]

Here's mine.

Holy moly! I think mine's a contender though. Let me take an updated pic.

 

[ryanrid]

here my brother, rodneyri, one

i have a small frag it this from him.