Through the Looking Glass

[watchguy123]

And just a few more

Paletta's pink tip


Palmers blue Millie


Oregon blue tort


Not yet famous prostrata


Nasuta

 

[mylittlejade]

Just like the other photos..AMAZING! Where's your Palletas Pink tip and Dragon eyes placed in the tank? I have these both and they grow well but I can't seem to find a good place to keep them happy and colored up. I remember my old colony of Palettas Pink tip was dark green with pink tips and it was a fairly easy coral to keep happy, but this was with halides and not T5's.

Bryan

 

[reefmutt]

fantastic shots!!
love the collection and colours.
im curious about all the chalices and the lepto.. how much flow can they handle?
my tank will be all sps with high flow and bare bottom, id like to add chalices to the bottom of the tank but there is considerable water volume moving across the bottom..
will they like it or hate it?
it is always changing directions but always strong to moderate flow except over night when it calms down for while..
thanks!

 

[smtank]

Oh the Purple Monster, just stunning.

 

[watchguy123]

Just like the other photos..AMAZING! Where's your Palletas Pink tip and Dragon eyes placed in the tank? I have these both and they grow well but I can't seem to find a good place to keep them happy and colored up. I remember my old colony of Palettas Pink tip was dark green with pink tips and it was a fairly easy coral to keep happy, but this was with halides and not T5's.

Bryan

Thanks, the paletta pink tip is about half way down but it had been shaded by my large red dragon which was about 6 inches around and the red convexa. I broke the red dragon accidentally and so I just moved the smaller red dragon colony to a new spot and now the paletta's pink tip is both growing and coloring up rapidly. Oh, and I trimmed the red convexa as well to give the paletta more light. The purple dragon eyes is about 1/3 of the way above the sand because that was all the real estate available. It is still a tiny frag so I'll see how it does over the coming months

fantastic shots!!
love the collection and colours.
im curious about all the chalices and the lepto.. how much flow can they handle?
my tank will be all sps with high flow and bare bottom, id like to add chalices to the bottom of the tank but there is considerable water volume moving across the bottom..
will they like it or hate it?
it is always changing directions but always strong to moderate flow except over night when it calms down for while..
thanks!

I have placed the lepto and chalices about on the bottom 40% of the tank. They get mostly direct bright light, some get a little indirect and a few shaded. There is lots of flow and they seem to handle it well. Typically high flow, high light and sps water conditions are not necessarily ideal for LPS but fortunately these guys seem to be doing fine. On the other hand, who knows how awesome the colors would be improved in less light, less flow and more ideal LPS water

yellow dots are about mid height of tank

Oh the Purple Monster, just stunning.

Thanks

A couple more of these guys

Nick's bubblegum Millie


Nicks pink dahlia


Really hairy Millie


Mr. Pacman


Mr. Pacman (front view) this colony is getting a lot of light. I have a shaded accidental frag and it has a very purple body

 

[watchguy123]

Monday morning fix

Green lightning horrida ( I am pretty sure I got this right)


One of four different granulosa colonies, all different from each other (although lokani and granulosa do confuse me) this colony has a very pretty baby blue cast to it but I didn't capture the color well.


Another granulosa

 

[dvanacker]

I have placed the lepto and chalices about on the bottom 40% of the tank. They get mostly direct bright light, some get a little indirect and a few shaded. There is lots of flow and they seem to handle it well. Typically high flow, high light and sps water conditions are not necessarily ideal for LPS but fortunately these guys seem to be doing fine. On the other hand, who knows how awesome the colors would be improved in less light, less flow and more ideal LPS water

I find that captive grown chalice and chalices that have been in an aquarium for quite some time can adapt to higher light over time but wild chalices really struggle in an SPS system with out added food and/or a nice shady spot.

 

[MammothReefer]

Looking great watchguy123. I don't know how you keep chalices & SPS. All but 1 or 2 of my chalices just sort of melted away over time. I could never figure out why. (enchinophyilla)

 

[watchguy123]

Looking great watchguy123. I don't know how you keep chalices & SPS. All but 1 or 2 of my chalices just sort of melted away over time. I could never figure out why. (enchinophyilla)

Thank you. I can't quite get pristine conditions for my sps and I can't quite get pristine conditions for the chalices so I somehow fall into that in between place, I assume.

And dvanacker's thoughts are most likely very correct, these long kept oldies have gone through many generations in tanks prospering. They have demonstrated their resistance, resilience, tolerance and capabilities to survive. Some of the new maricultured chalices may or may not have these same abilities, at least until they prove themselves to be highly adaptable

 

[watchguy123]

Morning all

Joe the coral, an underrated beauty


Another deepwater, I think wasabi


Another deepwater, blue lagoon



Garf bonsai

 

[dowtish]

All the deepwaters/smoothskin variations that are out there is amazing.

Thanks for sharing so many pics. It truly is a "fix"

 

[watchguy123]

All the deepwaters/smoothskin variations that are out there is amazing.

Thanks for sharing so many pics. It truly is a "fix"

Thank you, I have a few more of this series to go yet so:

Another granulosa


something i nicknamed cousin of strawberry shortcake


An incredible frag of a deepwater, dark purple body with blue and green glowing tips, a little different

 

[akitareefer]

That cousin is beautiful!

 

[sahin]

An incredible frag of a deepwater, dark purple body with blue and green glowing tips, a little different

That one looks superb. Cant wait to see what it will look like.

 

[watchguy123]

These are the last of this series and I'll try to stop taking photos for another month or so and then I'll update again

Bright fluorescent green acro


Ultimate rainbow acro


$500 efflo, I placed the frag originally just off the sand and my old lights could not color it up. It's finally starting to get some nice blu/purple in the tips with my new lighting. Hopefully it will continue to color up. Sometimes it takes a year or so to determine if you have placed it well and/or if the frag turns out to be what you thought you were getting



Caroliniana


Blue tenuis

 

[roni]

Wow, amazing as always. Your photography skills rival your reefkeeping skills.

 

[smtank]

Ah, that is what a Joe the Coral is supposed to look like. The Efflo is so unique, a beautiful piece.

 

[watchguy123]

Got a few new pieces and have a couple of pics. some of the frags I glued down to spots that i could not get decent shots so these are most of my new ones.

Reef Raft Pink Floyd


Reef Raft the vinh


pinky the bear


aquaSD Rainbow millie


I also picked up Joe's Rainbow Acro but glued it down near the back and I'll need a top down picture to get it. Also got Reef Raft CJ Pinky's from a fellow hobbyist, and I'll try to get a shot of it. Neither of these two are exciting at this moment, so hoping they color up in time.

In case anyone was wondering, I glued the couple frags that are on plugs onto new plugs after removing them from existing plugs and doing the Bayer dip. All old plugs get dumped, then free frags get Bayer dipped and then glued to rock. I am not sure where the couple of frags on new plugs are going yet, no real estate available. I'll have to chop some colonies out to make room.

 

[javsku]

Very nice pink floyd, I just got a frag of that from reef raft last week. The mother colony is unreal, I'm very excited about that one.

 

[Dapg8gt]

Where do you get the reef raft stuff from? Direct or fellow reefers? Always check on your updates =)..