Chaloupa
10-17-2006, 06:38 AM
Just a small fun story~
Sort of silly but....this impressed me...I have been in the salt water hobby for a couple of years now...LOVE the hobby (most of the time)...don't really understand why anyone would want "stick" corals when you can have flowy fleshy ones?
We set up our 120g FOWLR with "Ken" with the full intention to run it as a FOWLR...then we bought a Carpet Anemone...then those extra button polyps that didn't look good or fit in with the reef downstairs got moved in...well...we all know where this is going - at least Ken had the foresight to set us up with a 250w Halide as he said "it wouldn't limit us for any future plans" rather than going with our first thought of VHO only.
So those silly "stick" corals.....I GET IT! We stopped at OA last weekend and they are SO tempting that we got a couple of "easy" SPS with the help of the staff there...Green Montipora Digi and a Brown Montipora Digi PLUS a beauty Pink Cap from Hidden Reef...they look pretty cool....then I figured I'd try offering them DT's Oyster Eggs...WOW. How much fun was that! The polyps were amazing...then you try to take a picture to capture it and well I think I need Reeferaddict's camera to make it pretty.
I just thought it was pretty cool and for all the SPS tanks...I now understand how cool it is to have SPS. Can't say that I would have a whole tank full as I think I would worry too much....but now each time I see them offered...I think "a $20.00 frag isn't too much" "and it's blue" ...what would another hurt!? I think this is where my husband GROANS and realizes...now we are hunting down Zoo frags AND "easy" SPS!? :lol:
Sort of silly but....this impressed me...I have been in the salt water hobby for a couple of years now...LOVE the hobby (most of the time)...don't really understand why anyone would want "stick" corals when you can have flowy fleshy ones?
We set up our 120g FOWLR with "Ken" with the full intention to run it as a FOWLR...then we bought a Carpet Anemone...then those extra button polyps that didn't look good or fit in with the reef downstairs got moved in...well...we all know where this is going - at least Ken had the foresight to set us up with a 250w Halide as he said "it wouldn't limit us for any future plans" rather than going with our first thought of VHO only.
So those silly "stick" corals.....I GET IT! We stopped at OA last weekend and they are SO tempting that we got a couple of "easy" SPS with the help of the staff there...Green Montipora Digi and a Brown Montipora Digi PLUS a beauty Pink Cap from Hidden Reef...they look pretty cool....then I figured I'd try offering them DT's Oyster Eggs...WOW. How much fun was that! The polyps were amazing...then you try to take a picture to capture it and well I think I need Reeferaddict's camera to make it pretty.
I just thought it was pretty cool and for all the SPS tanks...I now understand how cool it is to have SPS. Can't say that I would have a whole tank full as I think I would worry too much....but now each time I see them offered...I think "a $20.00 frag isn't too much" "and it's blue" ...what would another hurt!? I think this is where my husband GROANS and realizes...now we are hunting down Zoo frags AND "easy" SPS!? :lol: