The SPS Journey Begins

[Reefing102]

@reefing102 @JohnL

ORA on sale.

Live - ORA Corals - ORA Acropora - SaltwaterAquarium.com

www.saltwateraquarium.com

Grr…and free shipping at $179…must resist to buy presents for others

And I have a small tank project coming up too…to be continued on that one

 

[Reefing102]

Couple quick updates, but no pics. Forgot to take some. I think I’m going to take a small rock and mount the Mr. Freeze Lepto on it and give it its own island. This thing is a very fast grower and very aggressive. It killed my BC HappyBerry and was working on RR Blue Flame, BC Kermit Granny, BC Honeycomb, and the BC Battlestag along with the No Name Tenius.

Those listed above are now mounted to the rockwork with the other survivors but not in yet in serious danger soon to follow.

 

[griss]

Sorry to hear that, would love to see updated pics.

 

[Reefing102]

I’ll try to grab some updated pics tomorrow. Used the Epoxy sandwich method to mount the frags so I hope they’re urchin proof.

 

[Reefing102]

Grabbed two quick pics. First up is the torch garden: (cotton candy (left), silver tips (bottom center), black light (right), hellfire (top center))

And then the green slimer frag rock showing impressive growth on the slimer (and bryopsis)

 

[griss]

Those Slimers do grow fast, I had a colony that started as a 2” frag and ended up bigger than a basketball before I started fragging it.

 

[T Diddy]

Grabbed two quick pics. First up is the torch garden: (cotton candy (left), silver tips (bottom center), black light (right), hellfire (top center))

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And then the green slimer frag rock showing impressive growth on the slimer (and bryopsis)

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That kind of makes me sick

I really wanted to have euphyllia in my tank , but it’s not working out at the moment. I’m cranking the flow back up to keep my SpS happy. Everything was really going great until I reduced the flow in an effort to accommodate a hammer and torch that I just couldn’t resist.

 

[Reefing102]

The funny part is I didn’t change the flow in my tank. My tank is pretty high flow (I like to think) but I found the biggest thing is getting them more to the indirect flow areas.

 

[Reefing102]

So just a quick update. It appears my “Green Slimer” is not actually a classic “Green Slimer.”

The classic is A. yongei. I believe mine to be Acropora abrolhensis. My reasoning is it appears Yongei is a bright green, generally not very fuzzy, has thinner branches and also has pointy white growth tips. Abrolhensis is a darker green, tends to be fuzzy, has thicker branches and stubbier orange growth tips.

Here’s a good example of A. yongei (not my pic)

Here’s my A. abrolhensis

Thoughts?

 

[griss]

I would agree and I think Veron would too.

 

[Reefing102]

Newest acquisition - no name from the LFS - I call it, The Fiji B (or Fiji Bottlebrush). This colony has been at the LFS for about 6 weeks now with excellent polyp extension and even a commensal crab (that blends in surprisingly well). It’s a cruddy blue pic but under whites it’s a light pink with green tips. Will be interesting to see how it colors up.

 

[griss]

Newest acquisition - no name from the LFS - I call it, The Fiji B (or Fiji Bottlebrush). This colony has been at the LFS for about 6 weeks now with excellent polyp extension and even a commensal crab (that blends in surprisingly well). It’s a cruddy blue pic but under whites it’s a light pink with green tips. Will be interesting to see how it colors up.
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Sweet and the Acro crab to boot. If I may, what did that set you back?

 

[griss]

/griss sneaks into Shane’s house to steal a frag.

 

[Reefing102]

It was $125.

They had some millepora, Birdsnest, stylo, and others that ranged from the same up to $179

Pssh why sneak…just make arrangements lmao

 

[griss]

That’s a nice size colony for the price, especially with the crab.

 

[T Diddy]

Wow! Sounds like you climbed into the wayback machine to find a colony for that price!

 

[Reefing102]

Yea this LFS I can usually find good deals on. Every now and then they get some wacky pricing (like their $100 for a single purple and green blasto polyp). But most of the Fiji stuff has been reasonable

 

[Reefing102]

Here’s a 10k pic. Its got more of pink hue but its hard to capture

 

[T Diddy]

It’s a beautiful colony. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Reefing102]

The crash begins:

In the past 3 days 3 or 4 Acros have STN’d/RTN’d in addition to several other corals:

Heres the list so far in the last week:

4 heads of torch BJD
1 Green bubble coral frag
1 unknown tenius
And unknown number of Zoas melting
1 blue ghost frag
1 Unknown Acropora Speciosa Colony
1 BC Shag Priority frag
1 poison envy frag

A few weeks ago:
Crazy Bananas frag
Hawkins Enchinata

Now a couple to a few months ago:
1 Spainbow
Cyclops
Pearlberry (my fault on this one, fell from the rack and I didn’t realize it)