Okay so here are the contest rules:

You submit a link to a picture here, or on our website to some kind of cool coralline or successful encrusting sponge, or feather duster colony that you got on a rock, etc.... I narrow it down to the top 10 or so, and then we have a vote on it the weekend after next. Top 3 get $50 gift certificates. If they would like to participate in our rock seeding program, I will pay all costs.

Thanks to Weetie for the idea of doing a contest!

Ok you'll have to forgive me, these pictures were taken with a 4 year old point and shoot camera. The colors aren't right.

Pictured is Purple Plating Coralline Algae and Blood-Red Encrusting Coralline.



Once again pics suck

that is sweet. my pics are worse don't feel bad. I hate taking pictures too, it kills me. I like it, pm me address to ship the rubble to. That encrusting coralline may be a shoe in for my top 10 pics. Lets see if you can beat it nano-reef! Thanks for starting off ddr.

Branching Coralline
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Orange Sponge
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Blood red, Teal, and pink coralline with sponge
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WOW

Thanks John

the teal is amazing. if you want in on the project, (I think the Nano-Reef Advice thread explains it), I would love to get some small rubble pieces out your way.

As a matter of fact I am just preparing to walk out the door for Las Vegas. I will be back on the 15th. I will contact you when I get back for details. Thanks

Nice! Have Fun!

I found this guy UNDER my GSP after 8 months, i had no idea he was there until one day i decided to move it and i noticed the white hard worm shell.

though i have no idea what it is.






not that im going to win but i thought id show it.

wow that is different. a nice looking vermetid snail? (I always spell vermetid wrong I think. Reef Spell Check anyone? Just send me the words, I have the software around here somewhere....)

I think it's a feather duster.

are you talking about mine?? why is the shell hard then, ive touched it and its also white.

I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing. I was talking about the thing with the long tube ending with something that looks like a feather duster with pink spots. I think I have some under my rocks.

You know what it looks like now that you mention it, it looks like a feather duster living in a vermetid shell. Or a really nice vermetid, but I think lakshwa is right on this, the dual heads are pretty telling - even though the case is 100% vermetid.

That's definately a feather duster (hence the "duster" part). Just a type with a rigid tube. Vermetids don't have the crowns and instead make a web of mucus goo to catch stuff in the water.

Pics people! For a $50 gift certificate? With 3 winners? Come on now.

Looks like Schaferfred and I are in the lead so far
BTW, that teal coralline is freakin awesome.

Come on people, I know you have some cool Live Rock specimens out there!

my FD colony....


encrusting coralline....


plating coralline...


my yellow sponge hitcher (1 of 5). i trim this down to a stump every week!

awesome, very unique, i like the dusters.

Wow....I am really amazed that more people have not posted more pics.

Nice hitch hikers...

Here are some of my hitchhikers:

Featherduster
I think this is Halimeda discoidea
Neomeris annulata covered in Isopods

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nice algae, sorry the neomeris has isopods. Personally I love neomeris and that would be way up on my list, but the isopods are a killer. I would edit that part out.

Don't worry about the Isopods. The vast majority we have in aquaria are harmless herbivores. These aren't Cirolanid Isopods, just some harmless algae grazers.

oh okay great, thought they were parasitic. honestly all the herbivores isopods, copepods and amphipods with me just becomes "pods", and I only think of the parasite when I hear "iso". neomeris is awesome, nice duster too.

I think you have Halimeda copiosa. The long single row of "leaves" and the shape makes me think that. Discoidea is a little more broad, and wouldn't have a thin row like that. Also the leaves wouldn't for so uniformly from the previous leaf, on discoidea the leaves for irregularly. Nice piece you have there, I like copiosa.

These pics are from rock that was at least one year old when I got them.

Some pics of my sponges (had to use flash since they're cryptic animals under a overhang)


This rock has yellow/purple and blue coralline (not sure if the blue is coralline:

pic under my PCs:


blue side under PCs


Another rock has the same coralline growths (also PCs)


My T5s are very blue (currently 3 ATI blue pluses and 1 UVL aquasun), so everything, coralline or rock, looks like this:


recent pic with my T5s using flash:


Old pic with T5s and flash


Feather dusters (PCs then T5s)

WOW! Awesome yellow coralline, the whole thing looks like frosting. All those dusters too...nice rock lakshwa.

Thanks John. I've been trying to figure out which species of Halimeda that was. I eventually had it down to two, but settled on Discoidea based on pictures I saw. The other one was probably Copiosa but I can't remember. Thanks for the positive ID!

No problem, that is a much rarer plant it seems, nice find.

Here's a pic of my favorite rock.. not because it's completely covered (I do have some completely covered in the purple coralline), but because of all the colors! If you open it up you can see I have: lime green, bright yellow, blood red, purple, and teal. And of course my snail up top who is almost covered now too!

I had to use a flash to really show all the colors...

wow that is really diverse rock!

Voting for the winners goes on throughout the weekend here:

http://reefcleaners.org/index.php?option=c...mp;id=1169#1169

Hey John. Is the voting finished? Looks like I have a slim lead at the moment.

oh yeah, got to go tally the votes.

i got to say i am a little surprised you one. Not that neomeris isn't cool, and god know that picture is great, but better than number 5? hmmm.... Lot of the macro people hang out around the site I think that gave you a bump. Then again I spent $40 on the ugliest piece of rock I ever saw, just because it had some neomeris.

I'm surprised too, but pleasantly so. I would have thought there would have been more votes though. Maybe you can publicize the next context with a thread in General Discussion?

ah darn. I would have entered. I have some nice branching reddish purple(???) Coraline algae. Never saw this post but until today. Check the 42 hex link for pictures.

Wish I could have caught this one. Only thing on this that isn't a hitchhiker is the chalice frag. Oyster, sponges, nice coraline, Rock boring Medusa Worm, your typical Florida Cnidarian colonies, star polyps just outside the pic and even plenty of brittle stars (including Ophiopsila riisei, a bio luminescent species). Come on John, when are you going to get a space for your own rock out there? LOL

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'nother contest!! I missed it as well (stupid forgetfulness! )

rocket-
well post the pic for interest sake.

fade2white-
What happened is we got busy during the week, and I really just didn't have the time to follow through with the contest. I am usually better with hype.

So who won?? I went to the site but didn't see anything... Can you post the winning pic?

fade2white won with neomeris




when they let me.

FINE!!!

The blotches of purple is what I am talking about. I can only venture a guess to what it is. Branching coralline algae.

Well, I can't seem to snap a good photo of any of it, but I have purple, pink, teal, orange, and red encrusting corraline (mostly purple of course,) orange and black sponges, several feather dusters, purple plateing corraline, and thats about it I think. Of course it's all talk if I don't have pictures sooo. I'll work on that.

I am not much on pictures either. Sounds cool though.

So is this Neomeris macro rare? I've been watching 5 of them growing for the past couple of months.

i think nr should have a dedicated contest section!! i missed this one too!! haad a nice specimen to enter. oh well