Through the Looking Glass

I'm not a 100% sure I understand your question, but I'll try to answer what I believe you are asking. I add fresh cuts or recently fragged branches to my tank. I don't have any interest in purchasing either really large multibranching frags or colonies to my tank. I really enjoy watching frags grow and develop into colonies in my tank. I am not overly concerned with stn or RTN , I think that has to do more with my tank parameters and stability. Although a small percentage of new frags will croak but its a small number. The small caveat is I have recieved, a long time ago, a batch of frags that were super stressed and they did not do well, and I related that to a shipping issue Lastly, I cut all encrusted frags off the rock they were shipped on as part of my pest preventive measures
 
Hey watchguy! Your tank looks more and more amazing every time I see it. The Pink Floyd is pretty amazing.

The frags I got from you are doing well! The red dragon has almost tripled from the 1'' from what I got it from you.
 
SoCalDude said:
Hey watchguy! Your tank looks more and more amazing every time I see it. The Pink Floyd is pretty amazing.

The frags I got from you are doing well! The red dragon has almost tripled from the 1'' from what I got it from you.
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thanks. I am glad your red dragon is doing so well.

Here is a photo of mine with a powder blue background

 
Amazing as usual. I can not spot your Pletta blue stag any where. Hope its still doing well.

Please keep the pics coming
 
Dave & Monica said:
Beautiful. Little surprised you have new frags... real estate seems hard to come by.
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Thank you and you are correct. Some colonies turn out not as nice as hoped for and I have either moved or removed them to make room for a promising new frag. Perhaps a little crazy. But now I am going to share a little crazy from today.


I have had a few corals grow where they are not showing their pretty face and have done a little cosmetic surgery to enhance the from the front tank view.

So here is an eye level (from the front of the tank) view of two corals I did a little cosmetic surgery.





And stepping back a foot or two for a bigger view of the soon to be enhanced colonies. They are both kind of in the center.


Under the forcep, so to speak


The still attached base


The soon to be reattached portion


Glued in place with a little help from a couple of plastic cups


About 30 minutes after surgical enhancement, the glue is set.


A few things lead to this crazy approach.

1) Gotta do something new in the tank or its no fun
2.) Firm belief that coral will grow over glue and meld into base (atleast I sure hope so)
3.) Worse that will happen, I will have a gazillion frags.
 
I love your cosmetic surgeries!
I'm totally with you.
Besides the challenge of keeping a thriving and happy living reef in one's living room, it's all about aesthetics. And you've certainly succeeded on all counts!
I would do axactly what you are doing... If my corals were as mature.. Maybe in a year or so..
I am very curious to see if the re-oriented corals will continue to grow at thier new angles or if they will revert back to their old growth pattern.
I think this is a totally benign and very interesting experiment/husbandry move.
 
I spend about 20 minutes a night standing on a step stool with my pumps tuned down hovering over my frags. Nothing in comparison to what you have going on. Very beautiful!
 
Lousy picture of a really beautiful millie. I certainly did not do a very good job of getting the reflection out of the view box. Nonetheless, I think still worth sharing. You can see my red convexa, stunning palmers blue milie, strawberry fields, a pretty blue tennis and a few others. I am not much of a DIY guy but I am proud to say I made the view box

 
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Very nice I love the growth formation. I have one that they call sunnys glow stick around here but Darryl is the coral encyclopedia so I believe him first lol.

Nice colony!
 
tdb320reef said:
Very nice I love the growth formation. I have one that they call sunnys glow stick around here but Darryl is the coral encyclopedia so I believe him first lol.
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I dont know about that....I have probably went over ever acropora and montipora on the aims site but so many are still very hard to tell. Its best guess really and I dont get too worked up when someone wants to disagree with my opinion.

From what I see on the aims site and the colonies I have witnessed in person surharsonoi hase very long axial coralites. Longer than a.caroliniana but they are similar species for sure.

Suharsonoi
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0620

Caroliniana
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0015
 
dvanacker said:
I dont know about that....I have probably went over ever acropora and montipora on the aims site but so many are still very hard to tell. Its best guess really and I dont get too worked up when someone wants to disagree with my opinion.

From what I see on the aims site and the colonies I have witnessed in person surharsonoi hase very long axial coralites. Longer than a.caroliniana but they are similar species for sure.

Suharsonoi
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0620

Caroliniana
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0015
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After looking at the aims site, I do indeed find it difficult to differentiate this colony between the two species. This particular coral has long axial coralites with little branching in the main portion just like the suharsonoi however at the growing edge of the colony it has lots of branching and looks very much like the caroliniana. So in terms of gross appearance, I guess it depends on where you place your emphasis. Maybe we should give it its own species name--"unknown"
 
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