Zoaelite photo dump thread

[Zoaelite]

An army of Rainbows... Sounds fabulous !

What makes a "Rainbow" chalice, all I know is that they are expensive and I'm already addicted?

[DAVE]

Originally Posted by Zoaelite

An army of Rainbows... Sounds fabulous !

What makes a "Rainbow" chalice, all I know is that they are expensive and I'm already addicted?

They are very rare and are notoriously slow growers. Also, a difficult chalice to keep, they are collected in deep water and sometimes don't adjust to aquarium life. Best to buy a rainbow that has been with a tank for 6+ months.

With the high price tag you want to be sure it's got a good chance for survival.

[The Grizz]

Wow now that's a chalice tank!! You should just give me the rest of your Zoas to make room for more chalice goodness

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

Wow now that's a chalice tank!! You should just give me the rest of your Zoas to make room for more chalice goodness

Admit that your secretly using close loops and we will talk .

[The Grizz]

Originally Posted by Zoaelite

Admit that your secretly using close loops and we will talk .

Only on my chiller & reactors

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by The Grizz

Only on my chiller & reactors

Oddly I'm having some serious growth on my zoas at the moment, it was much slower when I had a tank packed with them. Would be interested to see a high quality PPM test before and after the introduction of any of them.

[Zoaelite]

[reefermadness]

Originally Posted by Zoaelite

An army of Rainbows... Sounds fabulous !

What makes a "Rainbow" chalice, all I know is that they are expensive and I'm already addicted?

I just noticed nobody really answered this for you Levi. Maybe you know by know but here are how chaices get rare and expensive.....here is a list of things that make a chalice rare and desirable to the collector.

-a nice and bright base colour (duh)
-contrasting eyes (green wont cut it here, must be yellow,orange,pink,red etc.)
-a green rim or contrasting coloured rim
-splashes of other colours in the body

any combination of these traits are good and finally we come to the explanation of what a proper rainbow chalice is.... basically it has a multicoloured base with contrasting eyes and contrasting rim.

Hows your frag doing? Im sure you saw a picture of my mother colony. I have had that one for over a year if you were curious. Chalices love to be feed as a tip...it will grow much faster if you can get it to eat.

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by kien

very nice! I especially like your favia tree/toadstool in the background there

Originally Posted by kien

or maybe it's an acan tree.

Correct that is an acan tree , thanks for the kind words Kien!

Originally Posted by reefermadness

I just noticed nobody really answered this for you Levi. Maybe you know by know but here are how chaices get rare and expensive.....here is a list of things that make a chalice rare and desirable to the collector.

-a nice and bright base colour (duh)
-contrasting eyes (green wont cut it here, must be yellow,orange,pink,red etc.)
-a green rim or contrasting coloured rim
-splashes of other colours in the body

any combination of these traits are good and finally we come to the explanation of what a proper rainbow chalice is.... basically it has a multicoloured base with contrasting eyes and contrasting rim.

Hows your frag doing? Im sure you saw a picture of my mother colony. I have had that one for over a year if you were curious. Chalices love to be feed as a tip...it will grow much faster if you can get it to eat.

Thanks for the info Darryl, the frag is doing very well. Here's a few photos of the little guy.


I was afraid portions were possibly bleaching but I'm pretty sure that's just the eye forming process now? The area lightened and then a little green spot formed, got larger and then a mouth popped up! Second new eye since I've gotten it, slow grower but hands down my favorite!

PUNNIISHHHERRRRR!!! CONTROLL!!! (aka photo dump)

[Zoaelite]

New split eye is forming on this bad boy!! Is REALLLYYY slow to grow but holy crap do I love it.