Scottkelly911
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Story #1
Well, about 4 or 5 days ago I purchased the smallest Flower Pot coral, I'd ever seen. closed, it was about the size of a jelly bean. I had to take pix of it because I was amazed how small it was. As soon as I saw it, I HAD TO HAVE IT!!! I immediately named it "Nano Bean" since it's the size of a Jelly Bean. Took it home, acclimated it and not one bare spot, knock on wood, it's doing well, not bad for $5. Having a Nano Cube 12DX, you basically snatch up anything if it's tiny. This little guy fit the bill perfectly. So here's pix of my little Nano Bean.
Pic #1: It's kind of hard to see since it's closed, but it's between two hermits, let me tell ya, these aren't very large hermits, infact the hermit to the right is tiny!
Pic #2: Here you can see it's fully opened up and is in the forground of the pic with my Neon yellow clown goby in the backround
Pic #3: This pic is a shot of the entire thing tank from the front to give a better idea of the proportions.
I hope you enjoyed Story #1 along with the pix, now for story #2.
Story #2
The last few days, I've been really excited about my new little "Nano Bean" as I'd never seen a Flower Pot coral even remotely as small as this one, and jokingly been telling myself that I had the "worlds smallest Flower Pot coral". Today, I decided to go to a fish store that I only go to on occasion, since it's not as close as a few others that I frequent. I had nothing to do today as I had the day off work, so I thought I'd pay them a visit since I've gotten some of my favorite corals from there. I went up and down the rows of fish and looked intently on the always beautiful selection of corals when something caught my eye in one of what I call their "scrap" tanks. The "scrap" tanks, are a few tanks where they keep some of their snails, or Zoanthid polyps that either broke loose from the colonies or rocks. Since I have such a small aquarium, I often buy several of these loose Zoo's and then superglue gel them onto a rock to form a new little colony. Anyway, when I was looking through the "scrap" tank, I saw many zoo's which I picked out, then I saw something that I at first thought was a Zoo, then I realized wow, another tiny Flower Pot. I was excited and once again HAD TO HAVE IT!!! Right away I knew it was smaller than my Nano Bean, but didn't think it was much smaller....until I got it home. When I took it out of the bag, in relation to Nano Bean, it was so small that I just couldn't believe it. I quickly put a dime on the table and set what I've now dubbed "Pico Bean" next to it. As you can tell Pico Bean is about the size of a Lentyl bean. It has several polyps and looks to be in wonderful shape, I just finished acclimating it and attatched it to a rock near Nano Bean. It hasn't extended yet in my tank, but it was fully extended in the store, so I know it's a nice little piece. So now, I'm convinced I have the "World's Smallest Flower Pot coral" If you don't think so, proove me wrong :lol: Here's a pic of Pico Bean, I'll take more once the new little guy fully extends, one of his arms started to extend until one of my hermits scared it back into his home.
Well, about 4 or 5 days ago I purchased the smallest Flower Pot coral, I'd ever seen. closed, it was about the size of a jelly bean. I had to take pix of it because I was amazed how small it was. As soon as I saw it, I HAD TO HAVE IT!!! I immediately named it "Nano Bean" since it's the size of a Jelly Bean. Took it home, acclimated it and not one bare spot, knock on wood, it's doing well, not bad for $5. Having a Nano Cube 12DX, you basically snatch up anything if it's tiny. This little guy fit the bill perfectly. So here's pix of my little Nano Bean.
Pic #1: It's kind of hard to see since it's closed, but it's between two hermits, let me tell ya, these aren't very large hermits, infact the hermit to the right is tiny!
Pic #2: Here you can see it's fully opened up and is in the forground of the pic with my Neon yellow clown goby in the backround
Pic #3: This pic is a shot of the entire thing tank from the front to give a better idea of the proportions.
I hope you enjoyed Story #1 along with the pix, now for story #2.
Story #2
The last few days, I've been really excited about my new little "Nano Bean" as I'd never seen a Flower Pot coral even remotely as small as this one, and jokingly been telling myself that I had the "worlds smallest Flower Pot coral". Today, I decided to go to a fish store that I only go to on occasion, since it's not as close as a few others that I frequent. I had nothing to do today as I had the day off work, so I thought I'd pay them a visit since I've gotten some of my favorite corals from there. I went up and down the rows of fish and looked intently on the always beautiful selection of corals when something caught my eye in one of what I call their "scrap" tanks. The "scrap" tanks, are a few tanks where they keep some of their snails, or Zoanthid polyps that either broke loose from the colonies or rocks. Since I have such a small aquarium, I often buy several of these loose Zoo's and then superglue gel them onto a rock to form a new little colony. Anyway, when I was looking through the "scrap" tank, I saw many zoo's which I picked out, then I saw something that I at first thought was a Zoo, then I realized wow, another tiny Flower Pot. I was excited and once again HAD TO HAVE IT!!! Right away I knew it was smaller than my Nano Bean, but didn't think it was much smaller....until I got it home. When I took it out of the bag, in relation to Nano Bean, it was so small that I just couldn't believe it. I quickly put a dime on the table and set what I've now dubbed "Pico Bean" next to it. As you can tell Pico Bean is about the size of a Lentyl bean. It has several polyps and looks to be in wonderful shape, I just finished acclimating it and attatched it to a rock near Nano Bean. It hasn't extended yet in my tank, but it was fully extended in the store, so I know it's a nice little piece. So now, I'm convinced I have the "World's Smallest Flower Pot coral" If you don't think so, proove me wrong :lol: Here's a pic of Pico Bean, I'll take more once the new little guy fully extends, one of his arms started to extend until one of my hermits scared it back into his home.
....I guess that means I use to have the "World's Smallest Flower Pot coral", but it's 7 1/2 months old now. I have another that started out a tiny bit larger. The one in the pic, I glued to a rock and its growth is severely stunted compared to the other, which I built a baby pen for. 
