Nice spiralis

Here is some reading for you

Black Corals Part I
Black Corals Part II

I dont believe the Cirrhipathes spiralis that have been coming in are true non-photosynthetic corals. They have had a higher success rate in aquariums that had higher lighting than low lighting. They do require the same feeding regime though.

Mike

Thanks, it's a good read.

New from a local frag swap-


O_o My new pride and joy:




Gold Dust Zoas:

Really Awesome corals!

I love this tank! You stole my spiral coral!! That was mine!!

Hehe, thanks guys.

Now check out my new spiral coral!


Close up:

If you propogate it can I have a frag? Please?

Ha, gotta let it grow a bit first.

Do you have a FTS?

I'll get one soon. My red plate is in rehab in another tank and the spiral coral hasn't been placed in it's final location yet. I just put it close to the glass for pics.

That coral is too cool!

How is the spiral doing?

It's great. Gonna feed it in a little while. When I got home today the polyps were extended more than they were yesterday. Guess it's happy.

What does it do?

It grows in a crazy corkscrew shape and is non photo so it eats mysis and cyclopeze.

Oh. Another thing you have that I don't. Oh well.

Is the new chalice a bazooka joe? Or tyree red/pink?

To tell the truth, I don't know. The guy I got it from was calling it watermelon chalice. All I knew was it was colorful and it had a good price. If someone knows what it is, please tell me.

I think it's one of the two I mentioned. I've been searching for one. I don't really like chalices in general but they look sweet when they drape over a rock. Just hate it when they stay on disks on the sand.

Yeah I usually don't like chalices too much but this one id electric- literally, it plugs into any ordinary wall socket. Anyhow, it looked cool so I bought it. Maybe make some $$$ with frags too.

how often are you having to feed the spiral?

I feed it everyday (sometimes more than once) along with the rhizo, dendro, feather stars and well, everything else.

WHOO! Two Basket Stars are acclimating as you read this message!

You truly have some of the most innovative and beautiful tanks!

Thanks!!!

Pics of the basket stars as soon as I get them in!

dude sweet lets see em!

Some nice tanks! Very unique indeed.

BASKET STARS!

The little one:


The big one:


Both of them:

Are basket stars hard to keep?

Awesome!! ^ What he said?

ah cool!

I think they are harder to keep than normal serpent stars, but easier than feather stars. They need lots and lots of tiny suspended food. Remember, they are filter feeders and one day will reach a diameter of 2ft! Not for a while though.

Those basket stars are sooooooo cool!

FTS yet?

Thanks, maybe a FTS today but the plate is still in rehab.

omg & holy blipedy blip. those thing are awesome.

me want, wow.

wow.... how do you get your hands on these great stuff!!??

I know people...

I want to know the people you know

+1

Some new additions-

Fromia Star:


Unknown Coral, suspected porites, like the darth maul porites I have. This one was a lot bigger, and a lot cheaper since the store wasn't sure what it was. I think it is bleached darth maul porites. We'll see... You can see the real darth maul porites in the upper left corner.



I also got a few zoas but they are still closed. Pics of them coming soon.

nice new stuff

Nice new additions!

And you need to update your sig!

Thanks guys! I'll update my sig when I find some nice pics. I like it for now...

Yay!

Imo if should be larger with more pics!

100% LED in 2 weeks!!!

HOORAY!

Just got through the enitre thread. I've read some of it before but I just never got all the way through. Your tank is awesome too! Do you treat the fromia like the others and make sure they've lived in captivity for a while? All I've read about them is they live maybe a year and then die. I am not saying that your will die in a year (I hate when people say that crap) but I was wondering if you've kept them for long periods before? I get scared when that's all I read about them so I never got one lol.

It had been there a while and actually I went to the store with my mom and she really really liked it so I let her buy it for the tank. She usually never sees anything that she likes THAT much so I figured, heck with it, and let her get it. Gotta admit it's pretty cool looking though.

Awesome! I will definately have to follow this thread more. Been doing research on some other sea life for an upcoming project . There seems to be alot of misinformation out there about several things but I was completely shocked at the amount of posts that say "you cant keep those in there!" or "You're going to kill everything!" or "your tank is too small for that!". It's so hard to find usefull posts like in this thread that actually give scientific and first hand info. Thanks!