Today's Favorate Coral [Archive] - Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board

Jason McK

02-21-2009, 01:29 AM

Well this is today's What's yours

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Jasonmck/Aquarium/IMG_0911DesktopResolution.jpg

Jason McK

02-21-2009, 01:30 AM

Or this one
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g293/Jasonmck/Aquarium/IMG_0910DesktopResolution.jpg

Trigger Man

02-21-2009, 01:36 AM

nice, what is the one on the second picture to the right?

Jason McK

02-21-2009, 01:45 AM

it's a recovering austera. Lost a lot of colour do to low ALK issues

J

GreenSpottedPuffer

02-21-2009, 01:55 AM

WOW! :hail:

LOVE the first one! I am a sucker for purple coral although I have yet to find much. Especially as nice as that piece.

Looks slow growing maybe?

My favorite of today is whatever is surviving my tank transfer :D

reeferious

02-21-2009, 03:16 AM

i've considered taking 5 or 6 frags out of my purple acro to the feb frag auction, only concern being my digital camera is screwed up due to water damage and my cellphone camera somehow was not working properly as when i was trying to take some pictures of denis's tank. now what would happen if i show up at frag auction with these frags and no pic of mother colony. HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP.

reeferious

02-21-2009, 03:41 AM

btw these are solid purple from base to tip, just don't know name of it.

Bugsy

02-21-2009, 03:42 AM

My new suncoral I got today, still adjusting to the tank.

:mrgreen:

Jack

02-21-2009, 03:59 AM

Jason, sweet corals!

Jack

02-21-2009, 04:00 AM

My new suncoral I got today, still adjusting to the tank.

:mrgreen:

I haven't seen aqua-cultured sun coral before. Well, it looks aqua-cultured, is it?

marie

02-21-2009, 04:05 AM

When the tank is doing well (which it is at the moment) all the corals are my favourites but this one stands out pretty good
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/mariesnell/feb2009013.jpg

I also have the mother colony but because it is closer to the lights it is harder to get a good pic of and yes it does have red bugs :)

marie

02-21-2009, 04:07 AM

And a couple of close contenders :mrgreen:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/mariesnell/feb2009021.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/mariesnell/feb2009020.jpg

christyf5

02-21-2009, 04:36 AM

I just love this one:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b365/christyf5/jan%2017%202009/IMG_4869.jpg

todays favorite..heh should me more like my hourly favorite. Every time I look I find another one and ooh and aah over it.

Another favorite, this one has had a rough go. I originally bought it from Props on the board. He held onto it for so long for me that I had forgotten that I bought it from him and it was no longer a frag but a 6" colony (he had a knack for growing corals). It ended up with a ton of caulerpa growing within the branches and I had to frag a goodly portion of it. It was brown for the longest time and then poof. Blue:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b365/christyf5/jan%2017%202009/IMG_4859.jpg

PoonTang

02-21-2009, 04:47 AM

Heres mine at the moment
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/m3bimmerboy/P1000291.jpg

Delphinus

02-21-2009, 04:56 AM

Have to be SPS to play?? :p

These two are among my favourite. Purple bipinnate plume, and Gorgonia ventilana seafan. Have a red Ellisella sp. sea whip as well that I consider a favourite but I don't seem to have a closeup shot of it yet. :redface:

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn239/delphinus_photos/P2210058.jpg

christyf5

02-21-2009, 04:57 AM

Snaz

02-21-2009, 04:02 PM

This Dendrophyllia is my favourite right now. Given to me as a freebie on another frag purchase this guy was just a sliver the size of a thumbnail. It has popped two new heads in the 6 weeks I have had it and looks very healthy, the polyps are extended all the time.

The other night I say two antennae protruding from the main head, it had caught one of those honking pods a full centimeter in length! Good eats.
http://snaz.com/marine/dendro.jpg

tang daddy

02-21-2009, 05:01 PM

snaz love the dendro!!

delp I envy your gorg collection I want the purple one!!

and I guess I shall post my favourite coral t was raded to me awhile back like 2yrs ago I fragged it up and now want to leave it to grow as big as possible.....

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o227/tangdaddy/IMG_2255.jpg

Delphinus

02-21-2009, 05:10 PM

Wow that's a really neat photo.. :)

wickedfrags

02-21-2009, 06:04 PM

Is this the one I think it is?

And a couple of close contenders :mrgreen:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/mariesnell/feb2009020.jpg

Mrfish55

02-21-2009, 06:08 PM

Is this the one I think it is?

I've been over there a couple times, I swear you can actually see it grow! that pic does'nt do it justice it is a very nice piece.

marie

02-21-2009, 09:09 PM

Is this the one I think it is?

It is exactly the one you think it is :mrgreen: For some reason I can't seem to get the blue colour to come through on the camera. It is a definite blue in person

wickedfrags

02-21-2009, 11:34 PM

All I can say is that growth is spectacular!!!!!!! Good work, I'm a little jealous. And if you are keeping the colour again all I can say is wow. One of the more challenging corals out there, that much more rewarding when it is doing well.

It is exactly the one you think it is :mrgreen: For some reason I can't seem to get the blue colour to come through on the camera. It is a definite blue in person

JDigital

02-22-2009, 02:24 AM

Really starting to like this digitata frag.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/JDigital/75G%20Continued/greendigi.jpg

Lance

02-22-2009, 02:57 AM

This Acro is changing from pink to white blue after changing from Ushio 250W 10K DE to Hamilton 10K. It's a fairly slow grower but one of my favourites.

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/lancefishtank/IMG_3079.jpg

And I've always liked this one. Pavona

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/lancefishtank/IMG_3071.jpg

Jason McK

02-22-2009, 03:05 AM

Nice Lance WOW

J

Carmen

02-22-2009, 04:10 AM

OOO love the shape on the pavona Lance!

High tide

02-22-2009, 06:10 AM

And I've always liked this one. Pavona

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/lancefishtank/IMG_3071.jpg[/QUOTE]

I believe that coral is Monastrea, very nice!

Lance

02-22-2009, 06:25 AM

And I've always liked this one. Pavona

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/oo151/lancefishtank/IMG_3071.jpg

I believe that coral is Monastrea, very nice![/QUOTE]

Is it? That's the third different ID I've had on this coral.

chandigz

02-22-2009, 06:37 AM

I don't think its a pavona either

High tide

02-22-2009, 07:24 AM

I believe that coral is Monastrea, very nice!

Is it? That's the third different ID I've had on this coral.[/QUOTE]

It very well could be Cyphastrea as well, which I'm leaning towards right now...hard to ID from a photo though. It's not Pavona though, Pavona is is velvety and not very distinct polyps.

Ephraim

02-22-2009, 02:17 PM

it is pavona. it's a green pavona maldivensis, which are more commonly orange.

High tide

02-22-2009, 03:28 PM

it is pavona. it's a green pavona maldivensis, which are more commonly orange.

I had time to reference some photos this morning and I think your right. It just shows that you cannot categorize based on the common species of a genus!....now how can I get a piece!?

Ephraim

02-22-2009, 03:58 PM

it's not too hard to find, it comes in time to time with aquaculture shipments. And it usually gets passed over by most people. The orange morph is really striking, lights up like a christmas tree under actinics.

High tide

02-22-2009, 04:12 PM

Yeah, the orange morph does look sweet as well, thanks!

Lance

02-22-2009, 04:12 PM

it is pavona. it's a green pavona maldivensis, which are more commonly orange.

Oh yeah, Ephraim. I remember when I bought it at Red Coral and you said that you had been looking at it. Did you ever find another one?