"Space Invaders" Pectinia "chalice"

[coralfarmer]

I got to mess around with this today. It's a Pectinia sp. I see these all the time but never with this color morph.

http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l487/coralfarmer/Pectinachalice.jpg

 

[coralfarmer]

Here's another shot

 

[GiantBen]

Nice.

 

[Grant W]

Nice piece James.

 

[kingfisherflesh]

Unfortunately its also not the "real" space invader. Cool pectinia though.

 

[Reef Bass]

Cool +1. Do Pectinia require any special care? Pretty similar to chalices in general?

 

[coralfarmer]

Yeah it's a really unique color morph. I put one in the 240 under the Kessil LEDs. About midway down in the tank. Its growing nicely. I indirect feed the tank three times a week. I've gotten about six of them over the last few months from our Indo transship. But haven't seen any in a couple of shipments.
Kingfisherflesh your right it is definatley not the reeffarmers "space invaders" Pectinia sp. it's a totally different species and color.

 

[coralfarmer]

Here's a shot of it in the tank

 

[coralfarmer]

http://pbckt.com/pz.uG8YZB

Above is a link to a pic of it in the tank.

 

[coralfarmer]

I couldn't figure out how to post it from my phone

 

[kingfisherflesh]

Yup, looks awesome - hows that "australomussa" doing?

Care to take this off topic a little and talk about that?

On topic Id love to see some Space Invaders as well!

 

[coralfarmer]

Thanks for the kind words. It's actually a Scolymia vititensis they look just like the Australomussa sp. there are four of them in the tank. They are all doing well. They are sensitive to lighting too much they bleach and to little they fade. And they reqiure regular feeding or the tissue recedes. I'll post some pics tonite when I get to my home computer

 

[coralfarmer]

Here's some shots of the Scolymia spp. in the 240 Reef.

 

[coralfarmer]

some more shots of the tank

 

[coralfarmer]

Its Kessil LED's vs Metal Halides