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11-06-2006, 06:44 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Long Island, New York
Posts: 796
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Kenya Tree?
is that the same as a colt coral.
I picked up a small frag the size of my pinky.
It alreay has 3-4 branches and polyps that open.
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11-06-2006, 07:55 PM
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king of brown corals
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: st.pete florida
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depends on what the seller wants to call it ! but they are not from the same family . kenya is from the genus capnella , family asterospiculariidae ,and most common "colt" corals are in the family ,alcyoniidae with the genus being alcyonium .
a pic would give us a better i.d.
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11-06-2006, 08:13 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 620
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Mine regularly drops branches! If you glue them on to a small piece of rubble they will turn into a whole new coral - fragging for the really lazy! Here is a photo...
sambo
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11-07-2006, 09:48 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Long Island, New York
Posts: 796
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Sambo,
that's it...how big do they get.
I might have been had on this one.
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11-07-2006, 09:57 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Danbury, CT
Posts: 845
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I had a Colt in the center of my tank. what a peice man. HUGE...had it for 2 years grew quick! had to be a foot and a half by a foot and a half. then it died and I have not been able to have a colt since.... got me why.... I have bought 6 more since and each one died within two weeks
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11-07-2006, 09:59 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Long Island, New York
Posts: 796
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well, I wanted a colt and ended up with a Kenya.
Live and learn!
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11-07-2006, 10:00 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Danbury, CT
Posts: 845
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where do you go for your stuff, reef and fin?
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11-07-2006, 10:13 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Long Island, New York
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i have a bunch of places here on the island...but only trust a few of them.
If i see something that catches my eye...I buy, b/c I've learned you may never see it again.
Haven't even looked at anywhere in CT...but it doesn't seem like there are a lot of places.
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11-07-2006, 10:21 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Danbury, CT
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definately fewer then starbucks in the city, but a few good ones. One in brewster, Stamford and Greenwich. That is about it that I have found
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11-07-2006, 11:03 AM
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The Mad Reefer
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Baltimore, md
Posts: 449
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I have a kenya tree. It's doing great so far
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11-07-2006, 11:31 AM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Posts: 620
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LIsound - trying to guesstimate the current size - I would say about 8-10 inches. The 'leaves' fold up and in at night and he shrinks to prob about 6 inches or so. The colour scheme is fairly brown when fully extended (I think unlike the colts which are white?), but I am very fond of him and the waving of the 'leaves' in the 'breeze'.....
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11-07-2006, 11:33 AM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West of Dimples
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My kenia tree got sucked through a maxijet pump one day  , now I have 30,000 kenia trees growing everywhere in my softie tank 
Whiskey
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11-07-2006, 11:59 AM
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shark
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: PA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wiskey
My kenia tree got sucked through a maxijet pump one day , now I have 30,000 kenia trees growing everywhere in my softie tank
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11-07-2006, 01:02 PM
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Rockin-Roll Mod
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Coal Valley Illinois
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pastina
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