A couple new additions.

[Krux]

Finally picked up a couple pieces that I am pretty sure will not turn blue in my tank... and doing the happy joy dance cause i finally got my mammy frag.

[ardenen]

Nice Blasto colony... I have a smaller colony that looks almost exactly like it!

[Piero]

are those the red ones from upscales? I've been watchin those.....grrrr!

and the mammy too. what the heck do people see in that coral? I'm guessgin pics don't do it justice , since I just havent seen it in person yet.

looks like you had a pricey round of LFS visits!

[sanblas]

whats the yellow cora? is that the mammy?

[format32]

The red blasto's look like the one Souta's was selling for $200

[Piero]

So krux.....you get a big raise at the restaurant and you STILL cant make "automobile" a bigger priority? :P Poor Lynn...hehe

[Krux]

this visit was with shawn.

the mammy looks awesome when it is fully grown out, tyree has a pic of the entire mother colony on his web site.

the yellow coral is a tubinaria (scroll coral) which i just had to have. soutas has a nice yellow scroll as well, but this one has much larger coralites and is a more brilliant yellow.

the blastos i wasn't planning on buying, but once i saw the colony in person and saw how many polyps were on it i couldnt turn it down. rick's are a little more of a deep red, where these are more crimson in color, but for 3 times the polyps at half the price of his i couldn't say no.

yeah, no car still, but soon i will be out of room in the tank and will then be able to start saving for a ride

[Krux]

here is the pic of the mother colony.

i love christmas bonuses

[WAVESHAUN]

Thanks for your visit. The corals look smoking in your light!? What are you using??

[Krux]

2X250 watt hqi AB 10ks on icecaps, 2X36" blue+ t5 actinics and 2X36" 7100k pfo t5 actinics

most likely going to move to either the 13k megachrome geissmans or the 14k aquaconnects after these start to go though, still a bit too much yellow in the tank for my personal tastes.

i have really been missing yellow and red in my tank, in a month or two once i figure out what is going to stay and what is going to go i can start aquascaping so i can play the colors off of each other. for now the top is a sea of blue and the bottom is, well, all the zoos and the 3 blasto frags

should mention that blasto pic was taken with a flash too, it is too shaded where i have it to get good color rendition.

[Illusion]

Nice Ryan.. You will notice that Mammory start to turn the nice cream color in no time... Mine looks alot better now then It did.. however I still dont know whats so cool about it... Maybe when it gets better It will be ok... I have mine about half way up in the tank under the 400w and I seem to notice a small amount of growth since I got it as well...

James

[Krux]

most of the coolness comes from the fact that it is one of only two species representing its genera that have been kept in captivity. more of an oddball coral that a striking piece for now, but when it does grow out to the size of tyree's pictured colony, one becomes hard pressed to find anyhting close to its growth formation.

there are only so many staghorns and plating monties i want to look at, despite the neon colors they may come in.

[Piero]

but that tyree pic looks like a small frag, not a colony...lol

I've yet to see a pic other than thet tyree pic that looks similar....sure would be nice to know it's not a "one-of-a-kind" image...like the famous one of the "PPE's"

[Krux]

you can ask shawn, he sent that piece to tyree in the first place, the coral originated from waves.

not sure anyone else has seen a grown out piece... this is very very slow growing and very very limited in quantity, for now at any rate.

i hear someone in bali or something is aquaculturing it, so we should start seeing more of it in the future.

a couple more pics are here

http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch...0pages/144.htm

[funstarfish]

it looks like a white coral with chicken pocks or however you spell that.