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02-20-2005, 12:15 PM
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Master of Perplexity
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: panama city beach FL
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Gotta fill up the tank
For all those who, like me, just can't resist another coral, here's what you have to look forward to. The upper hammer coral, which started as a 1- polyp frag a year ago, has now turned into a softball sized 15-polyp colony. While I'm proud of him, as you can see he's pressing my Sarcophyton, the polyps are retracted on my gorgonian, he's pressing the space on the frogspawn, and killing an Acropora above him. Now to figure how to get him off there and sent to another home. He's pretty well rooted to the rock. Hope I don't do any damage. Of course, the frogspawn is getting too big too. And the sarco is already giving up flesh for frags.Next tank, I'll only have one coral! ( I promise)
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Last edited by yardboy; 01-29-2006 at 08:37 PM.
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02-20-2005, 01:12 PM
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senior member
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Walnut Grove, SC, USA
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HEH! just send the Euphyliid to the Walnut Grove Seaquarium, we'll make 15 frags of it and send you back a mixed bag (I have 3 different ones I need to do the same thing to) of the hammers, torches, frogspawns that are here. Funny how ome of them have small heads, and others have HUGE heads, seems to be a lot of genetic variation between very similar specimens.
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02-20-2005, 01:46 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Southern Oregon, Way West of Dimples ;)
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Dayum Roger that looks way kewl. All that growth in a year!!!!!!!!! 
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02-20-2005, 02:50 PM
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Reef Crazed
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Long Island
Posts: 278
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Wow thats a big hammer ! I could use it at my job .... 
Looks great , I love the look of big corals .  |
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02-20-2005, 03:34 PM
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Nano reefer and Jeeper
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Posts: 784
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I'll take a frag and give you a frag of one of my corals for it!
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02-20-2005, 08:19 PM
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Master of Perplexity
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: panama city beach FL
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td, I may take you up on that. I was able to remove it from its niche without damage, thinking it'd grown to the rock, turned out the epoxy worked better than I'd remembered. I mounted it to a flat piece and put it at the other end of the tank until I decide what to do with it. It's size kinda snuck up on me, like still looking at your kids as babies. It actually had 19 polyps and looks good mounted to the flat rock. It's just that it'll dominate any size tank eventually, and I'm going toward sps corals. The sarco I've started fragging successfully, but the frogspawn will have to go eventually too. I'll get some pictures of the hammer tomorrow to show in its new spot. I may clip a frag and send you the rest Tom. Trade for sps? Anything but monti's. I'm about tankfull of them too. I would trade it at the lfs, but they don't have anything worth trading it for. |
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02-20-2005, 08:32 PM
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Admin/ Super mod
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: New Castle, Delaware
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WoW roger ! that is a nice looking picture.. mind if i come and drool at your tank!
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