SPS Frag update pics

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Took some update photos today of the frags i picked up at reefapalooza, its been a hard road and i have lost a few due to salinity/alk swings, but the ones that survived are looking better than ever and the growth really only shot up in the last month or two. Enjoy!

Most of the pics will be in a series of three ,
first pic will be 10/27/14 - day or two after i purchased them
second 11/13/14 - two weeks after purchase things weren't looking so well so i took some pics and made a post on here asking for help
third 3/24/14 - looking better now!

Pink Lemonade - One of my favorite pieces, it had a slight tinge of green and pink when I bought it, now is mostly yellow

 

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Cali Tort from Cherry Corals

 

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Joe the Coral

 

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Red Planet - Didn't take a pic of the full frag before unfortunately

 

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Frogskin - lost a lot of the blue, maybe because im using leds?

 

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Tierra del fuego - color from the polyps faded a lot as well as the red from the body. Growth was really slow, looks like the corallites got larger, and the base definitely encrusted a lot.

 

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Cherry corals fuzzy and blue - only two pics here. great growth and color, lost a bit of the green towards the insides of each branch but blue is pretty vibrant on the tips

 

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ORA Borealis - Growth wasn't great, lost of bit of the vibrantness of the blue and the green .. glow. not sure how to describe it but the texture of the acro looked different when i first got it

 

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Still not sure what this is - this one suffered some STN from the bottom and only recovered two months or so ago. The new branches seem to have shot out and are growing crazy fast now. two more branches on the other side that you cant see in the pic

 

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german blue polyp - looks really different, lost a lot of color on the body, blue polyps are gone, but tips have gone bright green

 

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Strawberry shortcake - Originally this frag came brown and with little encrusted grwoth on the frag. Nowadays its still brown on the top, but the new encrusting growth is green at the base and pink at the tips - more like how it should look. You can't really tell from the pic but the color is there, just very light. Pink tips also come out a lot under actinic lighting. I am planning on moving this to a frag rack right under the radions and see how it does.

 

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New frags I picked up two weeks ago. Can't wait to see how these do!


Purple tabling acro - already lost a bit of color

hawkins - lets try again!

unknown - nice color, bright green polyps

red dragon

unknown - i really like this piece as well.

 

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Heres a pic of the frag rack today - since I got the SPS the other lps have gotten ignored , i moved both the radions near the middle of the tank so the frags get the best, most even coverage. :crazy1: I have anxiety whenever i think about glueing any of the frags to the rockwork... i like to move things around to take pics and stuff, but I will have to choose permanent spots for them all soon. I hope you guys enjoy the pics, I will continue to update this thread throughout the months/years. Thanks for looking!! :wave:

 

[nashorn]

Nice! Pink lemonade and red planet are 2 of my favorite. I got to get that Hawkins.
Thanks for sharing

 

[CoralNerd]

Nice group of corals [emoji2].
Red planet, pink lemonade and Garth bonsai are on my list to get.[emoji12]

 

[Tek]

Nice collection. So the stick addiction starts.

 

[fastest302]

Those look awesome

 

[coral102]

Beautiful frags!!! :inlove:

 

[klondike4001]

New frags I picked up two weeks ago. Can't wait to see how these do!


Purple tabling acro - already lost a bit of color

hawkins - lets try again!

unknown - nice color, bright green polyps

red dragon

unknown - i really like this piece as well.

Pretty sure that unknown is an ORA Australian Delicate. Haven't seen one in years.

 

[Wings6010]

Drool.... That pink lemonade is beautiful!