Today's Favorate Coral
 

Well this is today's What's yours

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...Resolution.jpg

Or this one
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...Resolution.jpg

nice, what is the one on the second picture to the right?

it's a recovering austera. Lost a lot of colour do to low ALK issues

J

WOW! :hail:

LOVE the first one! I am a sucker for purple coral although I have yet to find much. Especially as nice as that piece.

Looks slow growing maybe?

My favorite of today is whatever is surviving my tank transfer :D

purple acro
 

i've considered taking 5 or 6 frags out of my purple acro to the feb frag auction, only concern being my digital camera is screwed up due to water damage and my cellphone camera somehow was not working properly as when i was trying to take some pictures of denis's tank. now what would happen if i show up at frag auction with these frags and no pic of mother colony. HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP.

purple acro
 

btw these are solid purple from base to tip, just don't know name of it.

My new suncoral I got today, still adjusting to the tank.

:mrgreen:

Jason, sweet corals!

I haven't seen aqua-cultured sun coral before. Well, it looks aqua-cultured, is it?

When the tank is doing well (which it is at the moment) all the corals are my favourites but this one stands out pretty good
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...feb2009013.jpg

I also have the mother colony but because it is closer to the lights it is harder to get a good pic of and yes it does have red bugs :)

And a couple of close contenders :mrgreen:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...feb2009021.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...feb2009020.jpg

I just love this one:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...9/IMG_4869.jpg

todays favorite..heh should me more like my hourly favorite. Every time I look I find another one and ooh and aah over it.

Another favorite, this one has had a rough go. I originally bought it from Props on the board. He held onto it for so long for me that I had forgotten that I bought it from him and it was no longer a frag but a 6" colony (he had a knack for growing corals). It ended up with a ton of caulerpa growing within the branches and I had to frag a goodly portion of it. It was brown for the longest time and then poof. Blue:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b3...9/IMG_4859.jpg

Heres mine at the moment
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/P1000291.jpg

Have to be SPS to play?? :p

These two are among my favourite. Purple bipinnate plume, and Gorgonia ventilana seafan. Have a red Ellisella sp. sea whip as well that I consider a favourite but I don't seem to have a closeup shot of it yet. :redface:

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...s/P2210058.jpg

I love that purple one, I wish I could have brought a frag back with me at christmas.

This Dendrophyllia is my favourite right now. Given to me as a freebie on another frag purchase this guy was just a sliver the size of a thumbnail. It has popped two new heads in the 6 weeks I have had it and looks very healthy, the polyps are extended all the time.

The other night I say two antennae protruding from the main head, it had caught one of those honking pods a full centimeter in length! Good eats.
http://snaz.com/marine/dendro.jpg

snaz love the dendro!!

delp I envy your gorg collection I want the purple one!!

and I guess I shall post my favourite coral t was raded to me awhile back like 2yrs ago I fragged it up and now want to leave it to grow as big as possible.....

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o...y/IMG_2255.jpg

Wow that's a really neat photo.. :)

Is this the one I think it is?

I've been over there a couple times, I swear you can actually see it grow! that pic does'nt do it justice it is a very nice piece.

It is exactly the one you think it is :mrgreen: For some reason I can't seem to get the blue colour to come through on the camera. It is a definite blue in person

All I can say is that growth is spectacular!!!!!!! Good work, I'm a little jealous. And if you are keeping the colour again all I can say is wow. One of the more challenging corals out there, that much more rewarding when it is doing well.

Really starting to like this digitata frag.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3.../greendigi.jpg

This Acro is changing from pink to white blue after changing from Ushio 250W 10K DE to Hamilton 10K. It's a fairly slow grower but one of my favourites.

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/o...k/IMG_3079.jpg


And I've always liked this one. Pavona

http://i371.photobucket.com/albums/o...k/IMG_3071.jpg

Nice Lance WOW

J

OOO love the shape on the pavona Lance!

And I've always liked this one. Pavona

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I believe that coral is Monastrea, very nice!

I believe that coral is Monastrea, very nice![/quote]

Is it? That's the third different ID I've had on this coral.

I don't think its a pavona either

Is it? That's the third different ID I've had on this coral.[/quote]

It very well could be Cyphastrea as well, which I'm leaning towards right now...hard to ID from a photo though. It's not Pavona though, Pavona is is velvety and not very distinct polyps.

it is pavona. it's a green pavona maldivensis, which are more commonly orange.

I had time to reference some photos this morning and I think your right. It just shows that you cannot categorize based on the common species of a genus!....now how can I get a piece!?

it's not too hard to find, it comes in time to time with aquaculture shipments. And it usually gets passed over by most people. The orange morph is really striking, lights up like a christmas tree under actinics.

Yeah, the orange morph does look sweet as well, thanks!

Oh yeah, Ephraim. I remember when I bought it at Red Coral and you said that you had been looking at it. Did you ever find another one?

i haven't seen one since then unfortunately. One of these days i'll snap one up. :)