Thank you!! :)

Some more stunners.......

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75...m/ButtonIA.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75...DoughnutIA.jpg

My humble entry:

http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/.../WP_000185.jpg

Thats sweet harvey.

How bout a fts of that new tank

Nice Chalice mr_alberta !!

:)

WOW to everything shown incredible colors!!!

^^^ wow that's pretty!

http://i47.tinypic.com/2786t.jpg
http://i45.tinypic.com/6z30hu.jpg

Recently got bit by the chalice bug, had to do some sweet talking and drop a pretty penny for this puppy but let me present the Penta Kill Chalice.

Orange, Teal, Green, Red with a convict white stripe growth rim!!!

http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/409/mg0647x.jpg

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/6143/mg0627.jpg

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/831/mg0660.jpg

I'm in love :razz:.

A little Acan rock I'm doin
http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/...5A4985FE33.jpg

Nice one Levi...that would be worth about a billion dollars in the USA. :)

A few new pieces. Apperently I have a problem?

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t..._4876-Copy.jpg

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t..._4871-Copy.jpg

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_4896.jpg

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t..._4884-Copy.jpg

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t..._4894-Copy.jpg

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t..._4892-Copy.jpg

[IMG]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t4/jkhchris/IMG_4882-Copy.jpg[/IMG)

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t..._4857-Copy.jpg

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t..._4866-Copy.jpg

Chris

Nice stuff! Hey Levi, do you have a pic of that Chalice from farther away? Would love to see the whole thing! :D

ask him what hitchhiked on that chalice....even nicer tha the chalice itself lol , how the hell do you do it man :P:P

Gotta love the market difference, I have a 50+ polyp colony of Sunny Delights that would be worth a small car down there, up here not so much haha.

I'm pretty sure I have a nice full top down hanging at the house, I will try and post it tonight for you Mindy.

I totally didn't see them till I got home so I consider it luck but there's about 7-8 polyps of some pretty intense looking blue hornets. Only problem is they are grown directly onto the chalices growth ring so there is no place for them to grow & I doubt I can frag them :sad:.

i bet ya i could hehehe:P

as if they would ever be fragged anyways lol ;)


im def getting on the top of that waiting list lol


that watermelon chalice is still the nicest IMO hehehe:P

Neon Candy

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t..._4890-Copy.jpg

Acan

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_4934.jpg

Chris

The missing one from the post above.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t..._4882-Copy.jpg

Chris

Here's one of mine. Yellow ring blasto. Taken with my old point and shoot camera + flash.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T...0/IMG_5603.JPG

The Pièce de résistance of my LPS collection: My Aussie Ultra Rainbow Acan Lord 26 polyp mini-colony!


My camera, lighting and photography skill s*x so I brought this acan over to my friend March's place (marc3lo19) and he photographed it for me using his dslr under his full spectrum lights.

Photo taken by March:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W...0/IMG_7899.jpg

No photo editing was done at all. I watched as it took March only about 5 minutes to take the pictures, transfer them to his computer, convert to jpeg and email them out to me. What took longer was waiting for the acan to adequately open up/ inflate in his tank. That took around 30 minutes.


For comparison the pictures below are taken with my old point and shoot camera in my 40B mix display macro algae and coral tank.

I spot lit the acan with my all actinic par38 bulb to show what it looks like under actinics:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-v...IMG_5640AX.JPG

Same shot with my t5ho plant lights turned on and par 38 actinic used for accent:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2...IMG_5654AX.JPG


Some shots from the side/ front of the tank:

Spot lit with my par 38 all actinic bulb:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a.../IMG_5638A.JPG

Same shot with just my aquarium lights (t5ho) lights on:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-l...675%2520AX.JPG

Attachment 10163 does anyone know what type of Lps this is?

Here is a great website for obtaining Coral IDs: http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/

It appears to be a type of Favia sp.
:)

baby plate hitchhiker
 

found at Golds

i would gguess it is a:
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPage...ata/0002/view#

It seems I'm developing a liking to blastos now... LOL. :lol:

The latest addition to my collection of LPS ... a colony of red rimmed, maroon/ black center, neon green mouth blastos!

Purchased 1+ weeks ago here it is still in the store bag. Picture taken under a 2300K desk lamp:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...0/IMG_5827.JPG


Different angle with the desk lamp facing away/ low light shot.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-y...0/IMG_5843.JPG


Under my par 38 leds... 6 blues 4 white 2 red array.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-a...0/IMG_5841.JPG

Here's my modest picture some nice Candy Cane, GSP & a small green Rici
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...ver1/002-1.jpg

Wow that blasto is going to look off the charts once it starts to relax and open up more. Please post a couple more pictures after it's been in your tank a week or two (please and thank you!)!

Was sold as a Aussie Acan but not sure if it is something else? The Polyps are about an inch.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_4962.jpg

Acan Maxima

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_4966.jpg

Symphyllia that I hope will fully recover. Starting to colour up.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_4968.jpg

This is also colouring up.
Shot from a week and a half ago.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t..._4882-Copy.jpg

Shot taken three days ago

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_4963.jpg

Chris

It is an Acan, it's an Acanthastrea hillae.

:)

Thanks for the ID.


Chris

Got this today, very different... tentacles are MAYBE 2-3 mils long has about 30 heads packed in it. Color I'm sure will improve as it had a rough ride getting here

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/d...ragalot003.jpg

This I got a few weeks back starting to show great color


http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/d...ragalot004.jpg

Oh by the way, both from Fragalot:biggrin:

Oh wow that coral is gorgeous.

Thanks...some of the best corals I have came from Fragalot. But like they say he is evil!!:lol:

This one is my personal favourite!

[IMG]http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/...s/DSCF5221.jpg[/IMG]

And this one is coming along, it just started to colour up again! Ive got high hopes for it in the future.

[IMG]http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/...s/DSCF5223.jpg[/IMG]

Thanks! I'll post some pics once my tank's in a better looking state. Currently dealing with an infestation of flatworms and pyramid snails. :eek: Had no idea where the pyramid snails came from and only started noticing them after they killed off 15 of my black foot trochus snails - ugh. Finally found a shell of a common clam underneath one of my blasto colonies - I guess that's where the pyramid snails hitchhiked on. So now my tank's infested with nuisance algae, flatworms and pyramid snails. Just dandy.
:laluot_21: :laluot_08:


No clams and normal snails have been dead/ taken out 2 weeks now so there isn't any / much source of food left for the pyramid snails and about to use flatworm exit so tank should be back to normal in about 2 weeks or so. I don't think the colors of the blastos will change much; just look more 'fleshy' I suppose. Back to war on these little pests!
:snipersm:
:2gunfire:
:laser:

Mmmmmm......more candy

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75...IASRainbow.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y75.../Doughnut4.jpg

:)

Aussie Golden Torch.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5209/5...2b7f23af_o.jpg

Nice macro of that gold torch!