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[Tucson Reef]

 

[Tucson Reef]

 

[Tucson Reef]

 

[ZOAKEEPER]

Great picture Tucson Reef. Could you repost the pic. of your clam? It looks awesome but my eyes are killing me. Bigger? Tank is looking great.

 

[Tucson Reef]

 

[Tucson Reef]

 

[Tucson Reef]

 

[adamsky27]

Very nice!

 

[Tucson Reef]

Thank you. That Purple Rim is from TCN, years ago everybody was selling Leng Sy look alikes, that one never developed the Leng Sy texture. Today I fragged The Japanese Purple Rim again and took a big leaf to mount elsewhere, where it would show full view. This is the one Frank Burris brought to ZOAKEEPER's house Frag Auction, I could never get a full top view and the small chips I was fragging never showed texture, just beautiful colors. I had gotten a Leng Sy from Frank the first time he and Tyree came to Phoenix, but it was lost in a tank problem after a year. Well on the trip to ZOAKEEPER's house he advertised a Japanese Cap, I got it, and it has beautiful colors, but I never saw any texture. The piece I fragged today has the same colors and texture as the original LS I got the first time from Frank years ago. I can't post any pic's yet because they always shock and discolor after they are disturbed. It takes anywhere from a few weeks to a few months for them to recover the purple rim.

 

[Tucson Reef]

 

[Tucson Reef]

 

[Tucson Reef]

 

[philblumenfeld]

ok, what are we looking at in the last 2 pics. Is that a fish? Great pics.

 

[Tucson Reef]

Thank you. A very small grey/emerald crab eating Fan Algae. By the way, I'll be starting a new thread for further updates, "Update II", to make it easier on Dial-Up people. That way they won't have to download all the pic's they have already seen. Trying to get this Forum going again like it used to be, a lot of the regular posters have moved or been assigned out of the area. A question thread by "adamsky27" if any SPS keepers were out there got me noticing that posts other then selling were threads were low here.
By the way; If you see any SPS your interested in, I plan on fragging and taking mounted/encrusted and unmounted frags to Rob's/Southwest SW, so he can make them available. I won't get into names of types since I have discovered that growth and light conditions affect appearance. I noticed one Tort sold under two names will look either way depending on conditions. Some of the Cap's I have were called something later determined to have died off the captivity. Now I think one has the potential to show the traits of the namesake, but it would be wrong to claim without the lineage, Its still a beautiful Cap.

 

[philblumenfeld]

Now that you told me it was an emerald crab, it jumps right out at me, Thanks

Anything you can do to improve this site would be GREAT!

 

[Roll221]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13543115#post13543115 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Tucson Reef

By the way; If you see any SPS your interested in, I plan on fragging and taking mounted/encrusted and unmounted frags to Rob's/Southwest SW, so he can make them available.

I might be interested in a few

Announcement! I will retire in February and I have a lead on a job at Ft. Huachuca. Not getting too excited yet as we are keeping our options open on where we finally settle.

Ed

 

[Tucson Reef]

Hi Ed, That would be great, I retired 9-30-08, I love it. I still have a few of yours, you can have frags of anything you want. Its been boring since you left. Glad you took that assignment though, looks like you had a great time.

 

[Roll221]

Yea, but yours is the big retirement. Glad you are enjoying it.

What frags of mine do you have? When time gets closer I am going to pose that same question to all the folks up in Pheonix. There are only a few of my old corals I would like to get back, the rest I put in my new tank will be really high end. Can you imagine a take like my old one with nothing but LE stock!!

Ed