Soo...who managed to snatch this piece?

[Brian Chong]

I never order online except when I bought a blue tipped red cytherea from divers den. It came in bleached. No blue anywhere and barely notice pink. Not even pink it was pretty much a bleached acro. I dont have pics of when it first cam in but I just took this one for you Kataro. The side shown is facing away from the light. It's mid level at the front of the tank. You can see how it has improved

 

[Kataro]

oh very nice! So the pink seem to be returning?

I'm a bit nervous now lol >< Hopefully mine will look good

 

[Brian Chong]

Mine came in from Wisconsin in cold weather. I found heating packs in the box. maybe this is the reason why it arrived bleached. stressed from the weather. Pls share a pic of yours when it arrives. Do you know where extreme ships their corals from?

 

[Kataro]

Texas I believe. The weather is pretty nice in Arizona right now, my window to buy SPS before summer comes blaring in at 110F

 

[Brian Chong]

btw, heating packs were cold when it arrived

 

[Kataro]

bummer =( but that was from liveaquaria?

I'm hoping extreme will have some cool table corals out tomorrow... might grab one =)

 

[isseym328]

Who picked up the aussie monti today? If you got it I'd like a frag. I got a lot of trade with.

 

[MammothReefer]

Mine came in from Wisconsin in cold weather. I found heating packs in the box. maybe this is the reason why it arrived bleached. stressed from the weather. Pls share a pic of yours when it arrives. Do you know where extreme ships their corals from?

Hopefully it comes back around that looks like it got to cold. Was there a hole in the box? I've told them very clearly when they send stuff not to punch holes in the styrofoam if for any reason the heat pack goes out (gets wet) or whatever.. .poof coral is dead. If they leave the boxes sealed the cooler at least acts like a cooler and does a fair job of holding the temperature.

 

[James404]

Is is just me or does that look more like a.speciosa....ya Im pretty certain that is speciosa.

speciosa
http://sdmas.com/corals/791.php

echinata
http://sdmas.com/corals/26.php

Hmmm interesting, it does look like you might be right. Corals came in, no heat pack was used and water was kind of cold, corals seem to be a little bleached but should be ok, got PE on both.

 

[SDguy]

Hmmm, other than large colony shape, I have a hard time telling those apart.

 

[SDguy]

BTW when does EC post their stuff? You guys are nuts...all the nice stuff is always sold when I look

 

[Kataro]

I notice he usually post em on EC at around 12:30 - 1.

Go sign up for his email thing, he usually send out email like 15 mins or so beforehand

 

[MammothReefer]

He posts randomly.. He site is kinda wacky just cause something says "sold" it doesn't mean it's actually sold well not always.. anything you drop into your cart shows up as sold even if you haven't checked out. Unfortunately some people squat on stuff while they hem and haw. So it's good to check back a couple times if that piece you want says it's been sold.

 

[Brian Chong]

Who picked up the aussie monti today? If you got it I'd like a frag. I got a lot of trade with.

Do you have the picture? Maybe someone here has one.

Hopefully it comes back around that looks like it got to cold. Was there a hole in the box? I've told them very clearly when they send stuff not to punch holes in the styrofoam if for any reason the heat pack goes out (gets wet) or whatever.. .poof coral is dead. If they leave the boxes sealed the cooler at least acts like a cooler and does a fair job of holding the temperature.

That's the strange part. There was no hole in the styrofoam. A friend told me it was probably due to the cold weather. Maybe acros temporarily bleach when it's hasn't received light for a few days? not sure.

 

[dvanacker]

Hmmm interesting, it does look like you might be right. Corals came in, no heat pack was used and water was kind of cold, corals seem to be a little bleached but should be ok, got PE on both.

Hmmm, other than large colony shape, I have a hard time telling those apart.

I have seen a few speciosa being passed off as echinata.....not sure if its intentional or not. To me its pretty easy to tell by the elongaged corallites on the echinata with very few radial corallites. The speciosa has much more radial coralites. They are very similar other than that.

 

[MammothReefer]

Speciosa? Is that anything like a Spicoli?

 

[SDguy]

I have seen a few speciosa being passed off as echinata.....not sure if its intentional or not. To me its pretty easy to tell by the elongaged corallites on the echinata with very few radial corallites.

That may not be so obvious on smaller frags though, huh?

 

[Brian Chong]

i have to agree. Like trying to identify a frag of a mille from a prostrata.
I would like to have a frag of that yellow tipped echinata posted in the database.

 

[SDguy]

i have to agree. Like trying to identify a frag of a mille from a prostrata.
I would like to have a frag of that yellow tipped echinata posted in the database.

That has to be a photography thing. Frankly most of those pictures, while very informative on structure, are pretty useless on color, especially under our crazy tank lights.

 

[Brian Chong]

I guess that's why I haven't seen many color variations of this coral in the hobby. Are there any other variations that I may have not seen besides the true ice fire and the aussie ones?