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Brown to Beautiful - SPS Success stories
I saw an awesome thread while on ReefCentral that was to show off your SPS corals that started out as brown ugly lost causes that looked like they were gonna die ... that turned into proverbial swans as they recovered and got healthy.
So lets see them gorgeous corals that didn't even look like they were gonna make it I only have 1 ... hopefully will have a few more of these posts in the future This particular coral I picked up as a dying frag for $5 when I was buying a bunch of other live stock. It was basically a throw away frag for the owner, because it was browned out and not encrusting. This is it when I got it home: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps6923044b.jpg A few months later at least it was growing http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps58308120.jpg I added UV LED's to my setup ... and then it really started morphing colors http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps4b1cd0a9.jpg And here it is today: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps0f693721.jpg So lets see em guys!! |
down on its luck brown pocci:
http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/...31E0EBD099.jpg Turned into this pink/purple pocci: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8365/8...63b6b456_o.jpg Browning out Austera: http://i1002.photobucket.com/albums/...31EB4FE279.jpg Turned to this yellow-green austera with purple tips: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8100/8...81330948_o.jpg |
Beautiful pieces Kien!
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This little number (the coral on the right) was an all browned out mini colony with just the teeniest tiniest hint of blue at the tips when I got it. The most I was expecting was nicer tips as it grew
http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/...wn/file-97.jpg As of last week: http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/...psecb438a1.jpg I've never been able to get a good photo of it though, it's colour of blue is so closely matched to to what my camera sensor thinks the lights in the tank are that it always washes out. In real life the branches are are a deep sky blue and the centre of the colony that's most exposed to light is a near white, glowing cloud-blue. |
Here is my contribution. The first pic has both corals in it one brown and one assumed dead. They are not fully beautiful yet. But slowly leaving the brown/white behind.
the frag in the front is the guy that has started to make a recovery came from Brent: http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...psea7a6049.jpg Not all good but looking much better: http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...psd8e6ded7.jpg Here is a nice Brownie i got from Mark. It is in the top left of frag tank: http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...ps379445e5.jpg http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...ps3794365f.jpg http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d9...ps316c01da.jpg |
Brown Out to Knock out
Looked like this when I got it.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...6corals216.jpg It later became my "rainbow stylo" http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...ylo1macro1.jpg http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h2...inbowstylo.jpg |
Another ugly duckling to swan
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Wow snappy, what a turnaround on the Stylo!
keep em coming guys |
What causes them to regain their colour? Is it just correct parameters or is this through adding additional supplements other than calc/alk/mag?
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