Your Favorites - Coral Master Frag pix
 

I had a suggestion from a customer to do this and thought it was a great idea.
I would like to invite Coral Master customers to post pictures of their favorite Coral Master frags. I really appreciate your business and would love to see how they have done for you. Frag shots, growth sequence, SPS, LPS, Softies, Clams, etc. Any and all pictures of livestock purchased through Coral Master are welcome. :biggrin:

I thought I should add this reminder
 

Great idea Greg! I'll get some pics up shortly. Just working on a project :)

a few of mine..
Rics
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y24...a/IMG_0639.jpg

hammer
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y24...a/IMG_0653.jpg

rock flower nem
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y24...a/IMG_0639.jpg

mini maxi
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y24...a/IMG_0646.jpg

and the other half :mrgreen:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y24...IMG_0644-1.jpg

Great shots Shelley, thanks for sharing! That Ricordia garden is looking awesome and the nems are off the hook! Also glad to see the orange hammer still looks like a pile of shredded Cheddar. :biggrin:

Thanks! the pic doesn't do the hammer justice.. It's defiantly cheddar cheese orange!

Yes I have the same problem, it's hard to get that orange to pop in a photo the way it does in person.

Cali tort I once had

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...e/IMGP3850.jpg

A few of my favorites (all my Snappy Corals are my favorites but I cannot take all of them at this time). :biggrin: Greg, hope you can ID them. I had them in a order at one time but a kid one time knocked the rack of Snappy Corals and so they all got rearranged. Wish I had done a better job in catalogging them...:redface:

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/DPP_010a.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/DPP_009a.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/DPP_008a.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/DPP_006a.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/DPP_003a.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/DPP_013a.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/DPP_002a.jpg

Ones that I don't need ID on...

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/DPP_004a.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...s/DPP_005a.jpg

Convexa bought 2 years ago, definitly my favorite I got from CM

http://i777.photobucket.com/albums/y...12/convexa.jpg

Yep that was a beauty. Thanks for sharing Doug.

Wayne I really appreciate you sharing these pictures however in a different system and especially with such different light "reticulet evolution" really kicks in and makes corals very hard to ID. I will take my best crack at it but there are some that I look at and think "did he really get that from me?" because they look completely different and there were a few that you got frags of that I later lost to RTN. But anyway here goes....:biggrin:

Great to see a Quebec customer participating. Thanks for sharing, that convexa looks fantastic!

Hi Greg,
Thank you for trying... You got a point... Diff system and lights can make corals grow differently making it hard to compare. On the first pic it is the greenish and cream colour piece with blue hint tips.
The fourth one is green and purple with yellow tips and blue polyps.
The last one is green and Has hints of light orange or red and cream and yellow it likes like a table acro...
I'll pm you a list of all the corals I've purchased less the last order. I've kept the bags.:)

Great that should make it easier since I always write the ID on the bag of each coral sent, glad you saved them. :wink:

Ok Wayne I have gone over your pix again and made some corrections with my best guesses. If you have some pictures of others on the list you sent me I would love to see them too. :biggrin:

Here are a few of my favorite Coral Master purchases. I'll move them off the frag rack some day!

Orange Crush Chalice, Lava Chalice, Mummy Eye Chalice
http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/...0046Medium.jpg




Chalices under the moonlight.
http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/...0011Medium.jpg

Dragon Soul Favia
http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/...0052Medium.jpg

lava chalice looks pretty neat.

Hi Greg,
Here are some top down shots of the same and new ones for you to ID... they surely look different from the top...

The Selago? (not the one on the plug)
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DPP_003a.jpg

Verweyi
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DPP_005a.jpg

CM Bonsai
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DPP_004a.jpg

Fiji Blue
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DPP_001a.jpg

Fastigata
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DPP_012a.jpg

Orange Hammer
http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DPP_010a.jpg

Ones for you to ID...

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DPP_011b.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DPP_011a.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DPP_008a.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DPP_007a.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...2/DPP_006a.jpg

Thanks!:biggrin:

Those look great Lee, thanks for sharing. That cyphastrea is looking pretty good too. :mrgreen:

Thanks for sharing Wayne, I did my best for ID's but some of them look completely different (some better) in your system. That desalwii is off the hook! :eek:

Here's a few Coral Master frags I picked up Dec 2010...

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...eefTank068.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...eefTank067.jpg

Had only 1 casulty, Acropora Lovelli, here's a couple of them mounted in the tank

Acropora Formosa
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...fTank094-1.jpg

Blue Acropora Humilis
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...fTank093-1.jpg

Acropora Florida & Acropora Tenuis
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...eefTank072.jpg

Orange Monti
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...eefTank085.jpg

And here they are now, have been dosing alk, Ca & Mg since Jan 2012

A. Formosa, finally starting to grow
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...555/IMG202.jpg

A. Humilis, needs to color up a bit
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...555/IMG199.jpg

A. Florida & A. Tenuis, these 2 haven't done much
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...555/IMG093.jpg

Monti, a monster. Is this a scrolling monti?
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...555/IMG201.jpg

Acropora Microphthalma (Frost Polyp),doing quite well. 2nd pic shows were I first had him, starting to grow into a new coral.
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...555/IMG187.jpg

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o...555/IMG188.jpg

whoa that humilis went crazy you're doing something right =)

Thanks very much for sharing! Looking at the growth you are getting from some and so little on the tenuis & a.florida I would suggest there is something going on in that area they are in since they are both growing together and those strains are not typically really slow growers. Like Brett said that humilis has really taken off, looks great!

Any suggestions? Only thing I can think of is not enough flow. What type of monti is the one you gave me Greg?

I am away in Mexico right now & using my Ipad with the "go to my pc" app which isn't great for scrolling through pictures on the forum so I will be able to better answer when I get back.:smile:

How long after you got your order did it die? Any idea what happened?

They both like lots of flow & light but it seems odd that both their growth has been so stunted for so long.:noidea:
As for the Monti, it both encrusts & plates and gets very orange. I don't have it anymore unfortunately and don't remember the species off the top of my head and will have to look it up when I get back to Calgary.

If I can remember correctly, it didn't last very long--maybe 2 weeks. Had it at the very top of the tank, lots of light & flow and it bleached away to nothing. Really liked the sky blue color of it and was a bit disappointed.

In the future please be sure to let me know if you have a problem with a coral you buy from me Right away so I can resolve the situation ASAP. My guarantee is stay alive for 10 days but if there is a piece having issues I am pretty reasonable to work with, especially if it died in two weeks it was likely having a problem within the 10 day period anyway. :biggrin:

I will remember that in the future but I thought that policy was just for mail orders. Not like I was blaming you, just thought it might have been a tough species to keep alive. No hard feelings on my part.

Glad to hear that but yeah for future reference if there is an issue let me know so I can fix it. :biggrin:

one of my recent favorites from CM
 

Thanks for posting - that coral is a fave of mine too.

here's an oldie, but a goody:biggrin:

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...me-2012-04.jpg

Great picture Doug, thanks for sharing.

and another......

http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o...2/IMGP5588.jpg

Oooh... awww... I want that one!

I have a whole thread dedicated to growth sequence photos of Snappy's Rainbow Stylo...here are a few pics from it.

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=62625

Aug 30, 2009
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...Aug3020093.jpg



March 17, 2010
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4.../Mar172010.jpg



July 31, 2011
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k4...uly3120117.jpg


It is now another 50% bigger...I should take another photo of it. The color of it really changes to reflect the overall performance of the system. It is one of the first corals to drop its color when things are amiss, and one of the first to color back up. I also find this coral very difficult to capture the true colors with my camera.

Doug - thanks for posting that HOT Acan. That has really grown into a great looking colony. (looks just like it's mother) :wink:

Mindy - thanks for the cool growth sequence shots of that stylo (how did I manage to miss your original thread on that?)- that is a great coral and you are right about it being hard to capture it's true colors. That coral gets color morphs like nothing else I've seen before or since. Below are a few shots of what the mother looked like.:biggrin:

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...nbowstylo1.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...bowstylo-2.jpg