Through the Looking Glass
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Not a very frequently seen coral. Seems like it should be an sps.
love it.
watchguy123
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Thanks, Darth Maul porite. I had another acro colony blocking it out so I could barely ever see it. Its been in the tank for a long while now, not the fastest encrustor. I have been doing some relandscaping and moving, removing a few things and adding a couple of new frags as well. That is why I was finally able to get a pic of it.
This new frag pictured came from another tank where the colony has been in his tank for over a year. This frag is not just a tip, this is the color of the colony. No room for it anywhere else in my tank, so it is pretty low down in my tank, but my friend's colony was also relatively low in his tank. Hopefully my chalices don't sting it until I can reaquascape and move this guy to a friendlier spot. Hopefully, it will maintain this crazy blue but I have never had anything maintain that crazy blue before, so we will see.
mylittlejade
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Very nice looking coral mark. How's the tank recovering from the issues??
watchguy123
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Things have recovered and and the corals are all coloring up again, yes!!!
Well, good question. Most of my chalices are getting big enough to encroach upon some acro colonies, so I should know the answer soon enough. The nice thing about chalices is they are easy to trim or if worse comes to worse , scrape away a little bit
watchguy123
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I have been trimming and removing some colonies to make room. Recently sold some really large colonies as well. Boy, it is really hard to break a two year old colony off at the base--both physically and emotionally. But the exciting news is, I have more real estate to grow new colonies. I have been searching and hunting for some unusual colors and brightness. I have slowly but surely found some new frags that I think are really neat.
To really know that I have chosen well, I just need to watch over the next 6 months to a year and see how they color up and grow. I have twenty plus new frags planted, some placed months ago and some planted today.
As any crazy sps guy, I have the names down pretty well of each of my new frags but I'm not going to identify them for now. I am pretty sure most will be recognized by all the sps aficionados out there. Of course a few are unnamed so no one will guess those and some will take time to grow before they are really recognizable.
You are free to take your best guesses along the way and try to id some of these.
1.) my frag is the top left one, and the one to the right is my friends. He asked if I could get any color on his. Not sure that this is going to turn out as colorful as I want
2.) I expect the green to fade significantly
3.) I have posted and id'd this before and it is pretty recognizable. It seems to grow like a week
4.) I think this is my favorite. Should also get much lighter in color
5.) this is supposed to turn into an amazing beauty. There is so little contrast then when I was focusing, I could not even make out the polyps but somehow they are there, even if a little blurry.
To really know that I have chosen well, I just need to watch over the next 6 months to a year and see how they color up and grow. I have twenty plus new frags planted, some placed months ago and some planted today.
As any crazy sps guy, I have the names down pretty well of each of my new frags but I'm not going to identify them for now. I am pretty sure most will be recognized by all the sps aficionados out there. Of course a few are unnamed so no one will guess those and some will take time to grow before they are really recognizable.
You are free to take your best guesses along the way and try to id some of these.
1.) my frag is the top left one, and the one to the right is my friends. He asked if I could get any color on his. Not sure that this is going to turn out as colorful as I want
2.) I expect the green to fade significantly
3.) I have posted and id'd this before and it is pretty recognizable. It seems to grow like a week
4.) I think this is my favorite. Should also get much lighter in color
5.) this is supposed to turn into an amazing beauty. There is so little contrast then when I was focusing, I could not even make out the polyps but somehow they are there, even if a little blurry.
watchguy123
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Here are a few more new frags scattered about the tank. I did not take any pictures of all the older colonies but I'll do that in the next few weeks or so. Thought someone might have ventured some guesses on these frags, but no.
6.) Really pretty colored frag
7.) I had a colony of this and somehow it disappeared but I expect this one to hang around a while. Blue tips, pink/red body
8.) Looking for a pretty pale pink out of this
9.) Not even taking this one off its new plug until it shows itself a little more.
10.) Don't get bit by this one
6.) Really pretty colored frag
7.) I had a colony of this and somehow it disappeared but I expect this one to hang around a while. Blue tips, pink/red body
8.) Looking for a pretty pale pink out of this
9.) Not even taking this one off its new plug until it shows itself a little more.
10.) Don't get bit by this one
watchguy123
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Someone asked if I still had any older colonies.
watchguy123
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Thank you. #4 is reef raft pink Floyd The picture came out, actually many of the pictures came out, slightly over saturated. Not because I adjusted saturation up, but rather I did not adjust it down. I just switched my halides to xm 20 k from radiums last week and the preset black adjustment in PS Elements needs to be "reduced" to get a more natural, correct color. I fixed some but not all. Anyway, it should have been a little paler picture. Notwithstanding, it is an unusual brightly colored acro
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glaukos
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Thank you. #4 is reef raft pink Floyd The picture came out, actually many of the pictures came out, slightly over saturated. Not because I adjusted saturation up, but rather I did not adjust it down. I just switched my halides to xm 20 k from radiums last week and the preset black adjustment in PS Elements needs to be "reduced" to get a more natural, correct color. I fixed some but not all. Anyway, it should have been a little paler picture. Notwithstanding, it is an unusual brightly colored acro
Thanks for the reply watchguy:thumbsup:
This is a crazy acro
mylittlejade
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Your new additions are looking great. My pink Floyd is starting to color back up and I can see the yellow coming back finally. Are you doing anything new with maintenance or doising??
Bryan
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watchguy123
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All very nice. Really cool frag additions as well. Although I have to say, that one above ^^^ steals the show.
I hope some of the other frags rival the pink Floyd in beauty. I have seen the mother colonies of many of these frags and I know what to expect in coloring and it should be great. Surprisingly, I must admit, some of the mother colonies I have not seen which is one of my many rules. Always see the mother colony. But I have a reefer buddy who I think talks to the corals and he fragged some of his frags for me and they should turn out spectacular. It should be fun watching the growth and development ahead. As usual, time will tell
Congrats on your pink Floyd return to health. It seems it takes forever to get color, and just a quick moment and it's gone
My maintenance is back to normal, 10 gallon water changes weekly. I tried acropower for about 10 days. Bought into the hype and then decided everything has always colored up great previously so I decided against it. Not knocking the product by any means and 10 days is not enough of a test run for good or bad. Just don't think I want it for now. So just my calcium reactor, a little GFO and carbon for water clarity, ie, not dosing carbon. Best additive/supplement that I have discovered so far is fish poo. I may consider semi-annual large water changes; something like 20 gallon water changes daily for five days semi annually:spin2:
mylittlejade
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I completely stopped dosing any extras as well. I only do calcium, alk, and a little GFO. I stopped the carbon as well. I remember you telling me through text messege sometime ago your simple maintenance and dosing regimen and I started to do the same about 6 months ago. Keep it simple and bit but into the hype of some of these products and things seem to move along nicely.
Bryan
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watchguy123
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I hope I can keep all these little guys alive so that they can get to be nice size colonies. I am looking forward to sharing their growth and development. Its a long list of very pretty corals. I am reasonably optimistic that documenting/photographing them will be a visually interesting experience. I always find it challenging to appreciate potential in a frag without the mother colony for comparison. So my list continues:
11.) I had an almost two year old colony stn/rtn about 6 months ago and it took me this long to find a new frag. This frag came from an unhappy tank so the colors are not recognizable yet. As this colors up, it should become obvious what it is. I can't wait for the coloring process to begin.
12) I stuck this in the back corner of my tank, it should turn out nice. I have aptaisia, working on it (Aptaisia eating file fish in the refugium, seeing if it will actually do its thing before it goes in the display)
13.) Hard to appreciate this one, yellow tips, pink polyps. Should be a crowd pleaser eventually
14.) I got this from a fellow reefer online, I have shown it before: Pinky the Bear
15.) Pretty uncommon frag, recognizable now but will be more so as it get bigger. Hopefully another crowd pleaser. It is definitely one of my tinier frags ever received but grateful to my friend for sharing.
11.) I had an almost two year old colony stn/rtn about 6 months ago and it took me this long to find a new frag. This frag came from an unhappy tank so the colors are not recognizable yet. As this colors up, it should become obvious what it is. I can't wait for the coloring process to begin.
12) I stuck this in the back corner of my tank, it should turn out nice. I have aptaisia, working on it (Aptaisia eating file fish in the refugium, seeing if it will actually do its thing before it goes in the display)
13.) Hard to appreciate this one, yellow tips, pink polyps. Should be a crowd pleaser eventually
14.) I got this from a fellow reefer online, I have shown it before: Pinky the Bear
15.) Pretty uncommon frag, recognizable now but will be more so as it get bigger. Hopefully another crowd pleaser. It is definitely one of my tinier frags ever received but grateful to my friend for sharing.
watchguy123
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I place some super glue gel on the end of an old plug, then rub that on the spot I am aiming for. It leaves a thin film on the rock. Then I place a small drop of glue on the frag, place it and hold for about 30 seconds with the powerhead pumps turned off, and voila!
So a picture of a fun colony to break this up a bit. (This was hand held against my bow front with a non-macro lens and it came out decent--Not anywhere as good as when using a macro lens shooting through a flat piece of glass though, but I don't have that option available).
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