Whats your oldest coral

[purge43]

how old is your oldest coral and what kind is it?

 

[username in use]

I have a gorgonian that was clipped from one that has been in the person's tank for 20 years.

 

[cwegescheide]

I still have the first coral I bought over 10yrs ago. Its the Palau Nephthea. I've fragged it a Billion times. I will never get rid of it since it was my first coral. Its been thru hell and back.

 

[sjfishguy]

I have an orange cap, baby blue hydnophora, and a baby blue caulastrea that I have had since I my first 10g nano in 2002. Each has gone through tank problems, crashes, and multiple fraggings.

 

[jdhuyvetter]

I've got a tan finger leather that I got while I was in college..1991ish.

My oldest stoney was actually a "contaminant" on a piece of mushroom rock. I've had it about 8 years. Some kind of tan with white polyp encrusting porites looking weed coral.

 

[Reefer577]

I also have a Palua Sinularia that I've kept for maybe 6 years now. My huge squamossa clam has been with me for about 5 years.

 

[johnanddawn]

i have a shroom thats 20 years in my care - and a couple leathers 15+ years that i kept frags off of after giving away the mother colonies a year or so ago to a freind with a softy tank

 

[Radioheadx14]

Mine was a small patch of large greenish zoas on a piece of live rock when I started 2.5 years ago. I went from 5 polyps to a carpet 6"x8" looks pretty cool.

 

[ReefTECK]

Green slimer 6 years old. He was a softball size-ish piece, and then I halfed him for a friend, and due to size constraints. Nowadays he's growing unbridled in my 120

 

[jbird69]

 

[username in use]

All right J-bird

Heres my piece, all I have is an actinic shot

Here's the mother that it came from. 20+ years old in the middle all the way at the top:

 

[AquamanE]

1+

 

[jbird69]

Here's the mother that it came from. 20+ years old in the middle all the way at the top:

Whoa! Is that a home aquarium or public?

 

[username in use]

That's Atlantis Marine World. That's the west side of the 20,000g reef tank. Its actually the largest mass of captively grown stony corals in the world. The head curator is the president of our reef club so we get some nice frags now and then The gorgonian started in his home reef tank and then he moved it to this tank and there it remains. Here is the east side of the tank.

He started this from a frag:

He's got some fish too:

 

[jbird69]

Holy shnikeys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[falconerr]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jimroth]

Green Nepthea, started from a 1" frag in 2000, survived many crashes, green Favia Palida, also from 2000, died back to only 4 polyps during the dark times, almost recovered its skeleton at this point.