Thanks really great to hear i don't want to go with my own frags once agian. I have a really cool monti for you that hasn't hit the open coral market yet. It looks like a pink lemonaode acro but its a encrusting monti with a green/yellow base pink polyps and a purple rim. a pic will be posted in a few weeks after it starts to encrust



Cool buddy I'll see you there what name do you go by in real lifemine is scott but that wasn't hard tofind out. also what do you plan on bringing?

Randy and I have a few frags to exchange, so MARS sounds like a good place to meet up and also enjoy a frag swap.

This time I don't have much left over to bring to the swap except a few neon-green Montipora spongoides frags. I'm hoping to find a true Superman monti frag and I'm a sucker for nice Acans and Blastos.

Ralph is the name. Will be nice to meet you all and put faces to some of the forum names.

I know a few people around town who you can get a frag up superman from so its out there. So I'll see you at the swap

well yesterdayI went to the MARS frag swap I got a few nice pices but allin all i brought better stuff than i took home. But i will post pics of my finds later my post today id about a truly rare find of mine. I know it doesn't look like much not but the coloration and growth pattern of the gem is going to be one of my great finds.

I still need time to color upand encrust but i have ahve ot for a little over a week now and i tried not to post but here it is. acid green base with multi colored poylps from purple,green and pink all with a gittering white tips. Its a encrusting small branching montipora that came as a hitchhiker on a deep blue zoa colony and it been growing for 6 soild months and this is 1/4 of the main colony

between me and the orginator we haven't decide a name to call to see if any other color morphs come about since me and another reefer are growing it out under high k lighting

Tell everyone about your 1st round pick at the swap. It was the one you brought! Classic. Think of it this way, after our trade, you actually picked mine 1st round. Good choice

If the tips on that monti are indeed white, that could become one nice piece. Add me to the list.

Thanks Randy, well i brought some really nice pieces to the mars swap i thought that since i brought nice corals along with other people those pieces would be set aside for other people who also brought higher-end Corals..... I was wrong aparently but high-end stuff went on the same table as the people who brought a big patty of cow $hit (sorry it still stings a bit). So as i seen my very pretty stuff snatched up but people and decide to recuse some of my own stuff I grabbed my nice favia colony with a nice retail price of around 150 bucks before some one found it. So when i brought back to the tabe me and randy made the deal for his Ice Fire/Blue spector arco for the favia colony so all in all i was pretty happy with that deal.

Joker favia/ Grape juice and Lime

Also you have the first dibs on this monti and yes it has white tips.so heres hope this one will turn into a gem

Well today i wasn't out for coral but i went to visit a friend and i ended up with some killer stuff. He doesnt like to name stuff so i guess i will have to make some up if LOL anyway here they are.

this chalice is crazy (hey randy do you want half? )


really funky acro i think under good lighting it will turn blue or purple tipped


I love this Monti its insane with the poly size and it has a great purple rim
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I posted this guy up and i didn't remeber the name but after searching and calling my buddy who i got it from this guy is a ATL Hybrid Rainbow monti


I have been looking for a Efflo for a while and i got this great piece


Oh and also Here the coral i traded for from PurpleUP simply stunning

Wow, you get some good stuff. Freakin awesome.

thanks man I try my best trust me its just luck and knowing people who have great stuff and willing to trade. Sometimes its really hard since some people really don't like to share i have liked a whole lot of corals and never got them. People just can't part with them even if they are dying in some cases.

This looks better in your tank than in mine. Is that under your 21K? And sure, I'll take half of the chalice

WOW it looks awesome in your tank man! almost looks like a roscoes though...

Hmmm. I used to have a roscoes blue acro. Color could be close but definitely not the structure and the green center corallites.

no its under 14k phoenix i changed my bulb out a couple weeks ago.to see the differince. I like the 21k but the bulb as almost a year old and it needed chaged. Yeah your more than welcome to the chalice i know its your thing now i am just not feel the whole chalice thing




yeah the colors are close but roscoes don't got there great green mouths though

nice new shtuff scotty!

yeah thats true...
so many corals look so much the same...yet they're not.

This just in I just got the newest of the new Tyree Captain America Palythoa LE I got this from my friend mike and it comes straight from victor at WWC (World Wide Corals) also i am not keeping this and it will be up for sale since i am not planning to keep any zoas/palys anymore so i can focus on sps corals.

one large head and 2 small heads


what do you guys think?

Hey everyone its been a while since my last update. I changed my tank around quite a bit i took out some stuff that wasn't doing so well. I had a bit of a problem with calcium precipitation due to low Mag which drove my ALK levels up so i had a little bit of tip burning on a few of my acros but everything is on the mend and over the last couple weeks i got some new stuff

Ice Fire Echinata ( this is a under branch that need to color up a bit)


Rouge Millepora


Crazy Yuma ( i normally do keep softies but i got this beauty on trade)


RBTA ( I bought for my Picasso clown but it doesn't even go in it what a waste)

Oh also i have a Atlantis Blue Monster which next year is going to be the newest tyree le. so i will post pic when i get it and it settles in

where do you kom up wiff this stuff?

I get 99% local there are a whole of reefers in the Sacramento area that have killer stuff. So mike what are you looking for i am always willing to help you find what your looking for. Most of the item i get are through trades of either livestock, hardware or in payment for help like in some cases. I have a close ring of guys,gals that i trade with i also give a lot of stuff away to people in need. I only go very few LFS but the ones i do are yourreef, aqualife and exotic but very rarely. the Blue monster is coming straight from my friend Ron who got it from Mingwei at Atlantis Aquarium

I really have to rave about Brightwell Aquatics CoralAmino it has really brought out the color of my corals i really wish i took before and after pics.But all i have to say it buy it i have tried other this by far is the best




http://www.marinedepot.com/Brightwell_Aqua...IADTECS-vi.html

description

Brightwell Aquatics CoralAmino is a complex that closely approximates ratios of amino acids present in many species of stony corals; the formulation is based upon extensive research conducted on tropical coral reefs by oceanographic researchers. While the ratios of amino acids present in coral tissue vary between species, general ratios are approximately maintained, enabling an effective average to be created that will benefit not only stony corals, but also soft corals, solitary, and colonial polyps (e.g. Xenia, Anthelia, Zoanthus, Discoma, Actinodiscus, etc.). The amino acids are present in their most elementary form (”free-form”) rather than being accounted for by their presence in a food or complex nutrient; in this fashion, they are readily available to corals and their allies. The main benefit of this quality is the ease in which corals can assimilate the amino acids into their tissue for the purpose of growth and tissue repair. Secondary benefits of some amino acids are their role in enhancing the coloration of corals.
Corals maintained under optimal chemical and environmental conditions are able to reproduce (both sexually and asexually) more rapidly when the required nutrients are available. The presence of these free-form amino acids is particularly important to corals that have undergone, or will undergo, fragmenting or other means of propagation in which some amount of tissue is damaged.

well i have had a very busy week. I have made 25 frags that i sold to aqualife aquarium and in return i got a butt load of store credit. so i bought a new mp-10, a pound of GFO, 3 pounds of ROX Carbon , a gallon of each ALK and CA, A ORP probe, purgen and media bags i think i did pretty good.

sometimes i don't pay to close of attention to some of my corals but i was cleaning and doing a water change i noticed the dramatic color change of my Apples and Pears Acro

9/8/2009



10/6/2009




I am not sure if i like it how it was or how it it now

thats a dramatic change in color! nice stuff

thanks you know the wierd thing is they are only under a 14k phoneix it not like they are under my old 21k bulb that i ran for the last year

what is the 21k bulb you ran?

Giesemann Megachome Blue
http://www.giesemann.de/75,2,,.html

well since i am posting on most chaged coral heres my Blue Rip Tide Valida

7/21/09

10/7/09


I am not really digging the change since it came from 20k lighting and its now its under 14k lighting but i guess with the k change its to be expected. the the polyp extention has really gotten better

I have been thinking if i should put my new mp-10 in my tank long with my mp-20 they both would be dialed down quite a bit but i have noticed that i do get a few dead spots on the bottom most part of my tank where detritus accumulates. but i am not sure what do you guys think i know i went with the mp-20 to get rid of all the powerhead but i just can't help my self.

as soon as my tank settles again, we'll talk

Ok sounds good mike. On a side note it's new coral day YEAH !!!!

You'll have to rename it from Apples and Pears to Strawberries and Cream.

Well i got five new pieces today but only two are adjusted enough to photograph

first is a extremly rare morph of encrusting montipora speices. half of each polyp is green and white this morph is present throughout the entire colony


next is a very beautiful acropora i don'tknow the spieces but this thing has got some major polyps and super bright base



Also i meet another Nano-Reef legend at yourreef ..........RANDY better known as "PurpleUp".......... LOL

I will be making some frags up pretty soon be on the look for my sales thread. I really need to start making room i am running out quick

Hahaha. NOT! Good seein you man.

I gota new fish today a tail spot blenny i love how the little guys look and act to bad my lights turned off before i could snap a picture of him

I was doing some tank worka nd i noticed that my Aurora Borealis Chalice had really developed some major eye action

8/15/2009

10/15/2009



LOL i didn't even noticed that it was 2 months to the day thats funny

this coral is getting really sick and i mean in a good way. I really think this is due to me dosing brightwell coral amino

9/8/2009



10/6/2009



10/16/2009


Freakin awesome

Alright. Lemme get summa that.

Your tank is hot.

well i got a few new peices as of late but today i got this very bright orange fungia plate coral it also has bright blue tips. I do have one question on it can i keep it on a bare bottom tank. right now i have it on a mini sand bed as you can see. I know you shouldn't glue them down since they are prone to micro tears of there flesh but do they absoultly need a sand bed to surive?

Sorry about the bad pic is in the corner of my tank and i hard to get a decent shot.

your gonna have to get your own there randy LOL Its all mine




thats something that no one has said about my tank. i try my best

well here are two of the five new pices i got the others haven't came out of there shells yet

Acropora solitaryensis ( or similar encrusting plating acro)


Unkown Acro that poses great possiblities



lastly here is a udated pic of a acro i got a while back that is really coloring up

it was well very brown when i got it (no pic)

then turned this color


and now its this

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.......




dammit scott....Im.So.Jealous.


Ugh.

thanks ther buddy i am really trying my best your tank is looking great too. i couldn't do that much with such a small tank

Oooh that really is purple. I think I'm going to pry my frag off the lower base rock, and move it to the top. I'll wait until after the upgrade though.

ya.... its doin' okay....

im 'bout to ditch the zoa's i think....

frekkin pox.

My thoughts exactly. Hey any chance I could get a FTS, pretty please

sounds like a plan. call me if you need any help with the tank change




yeah i hate zoa pox i found if you run a uv sterilizer in your top off water you will be less likey to get pox again. Use a large one because the large amount of UV light will make O3 ( ozone) with will help keep your water clean and really help you skimmer proformance if you have one. Hey don't ditch stuff because you have a set back just live and learn




Yeah yeah i know i have just been to lazy but i will

Wow, congrats on finding some really interesting Acros. This red polyp-on-red/bluish-purple is stunning!

Ralph.