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Here is a shot of another coral that is displaying some reasonable polyp extension these days
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...nsionmacro.jpg

Wow that is some sweet polyp extension and a great shot . Is that a tenius.

Wow...

"reasonable polyp extension" ???? that is excellent!! Very very nice!!

My first guess was that too but the coralites are more spread out than any tenuis I've seen so I don't think so unless it's due to reticulate evolution. I have been having some dificulty with the id on this one since even when I "turkey baste" it the polyps won't go in much so it's hard to tell what the actual skeletal structure is like. Interestingly enough it does have a serial # and date on the bottom of it's base from when it was maricultured but I doubt I will be able to trace it. Even if I could they would likely just say that it is an acropora of some kind. I will do some research when I get some time and I will get a positive id.

I didn't know maricultured pieces had serial #'s. That's wild. I've never seen it. Where does it show up, is it engraved or is it a tag?

How long have you been using reefresh now?

Yeah me neither, I discovered it by accident the other day when I was pulling a snail off that had attached on the underside making it tip. It is a tag that was glued on. The date is 17/12/06 so I assume that is when they put the frag back into the ocean to grow out. I need to check my other pieces to see if they have it too. Tony check the maricultured pieces you just got a while back, A.hoksemai & A.abrotanoides, they have the same kind of base and are likely from the same original supplier.
I started using reef-resh in Jan 07.

Do you attribute your overal coral health in part to Reef-fresh? I'm just considering some changes, and have been looking into this.

I can't say for certain, but if it ain't broke don't fix it. I am positive that if I had not been using it when I had my skimmer breakdown, about 8 weeks, and then with my DW leak incident most of my sps would have died.

I think I notice a pronounced difference in the pictures you post now and the pictures you used to post about a year ago and before. Mind you, I suspect you either have a better camera, or you got eye surgery, because the focus is also much better nowadays. :p :p :p