Allright Len, I am calling you out

[Anonymous]

Chip wrote:

Yeah, either your lights suck or that coral sucks

My tank isn't really set up for this type of coral. Having said that, I still think that this is a poor clone.

I don't feed it or do anything to keep it happy. I put it on the bottom of the tank so that it doesn't get sun burned, and I put it in a lower flow area. If it needs to be feed to show it's true colors, then it'll stay a drab looking coral. I ain't into hand feeding stuffs.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

Louey what do you feed your sailfin? Mine doesn't like any sort of prepared foods (algae flakes, red flakes, artipods, mysis) but I do see him picking at the rocks occasionally so I'm hoping he's getting adequate food.

Btw I'll fight back! ... but I wont post a full tank shot.

Limited Edition?

 

[Anonymous]

Looks like the Idaho Grape Monti to me. That is an LE.

My sailfin eats anything. Frozen formula one, frozen prime reef, OSI marine flake, OSI spirulina, seaweed select on a clip, cheato on a clip, and he grazes all day long. He's a good fish. I like him alot. Tough fish. Found a daggar wound in my larger atlantic blue tang a few weeks ago. They generally get along though.

Louey

 

[fishinchick]

Dualling reef tanks!

Reef shots at 20 paces!!

I want a clean fight. No shots below the waist please! :lol:

(those you can PM directly to me).

 

[RobertoVespucci]

sfsuphysics - That's really cool the way you got the epoxy to look all drippy that way. Did you squeeze it out in front of a powerhead?

Louey, noob question again, but which one is the 'watermelon clone' and what is that? I couldn't tell which/what was behind the clam.

Oh, and I was just kidding about the epoxy, sfsu. I take it that's some sort of ricordea? I really like the color. Did I mention I'm available for manual labor?

 

[Anonymous]

Here's a shot of my Sailfin and Atlantic Blue tangs feeding from the algea clip..

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

Roberto wrote:

Louey, noob question again, but which one is the 'watermelon clone' and what is that? I couldn't tell which/what was behind the clam.

It's the one closest to the clam. The small clam, not the big one. It is just to the right of the deresa. It's supposed to be read with green edges, instead it is dang near brown with greenish/yellow edges.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

Here's a close up of the watermelon that I just took.

I guess it does have a redish tint to it.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

Looks like the Idaho Grape Monti to me. That is an LE.

Looks like one perhaps, but I sure as hell didn't pay for one. I'm can't be sure of a lineage, and some of those LE people don't like people claiming to have LEs unless they know for sure where it came from. Eitherway I got a frag for $10 of this (this is actually a frag that occured when one of my rocks fell over ).

 

[Anonymous]

sfsuphysics wrote:

I'm can't be sure of a lineage, and some of those LE people don't like people claiming to have LEs unless they know for sure where it came from

I wouldn't sell it as an LE if you are unsure. I'm sure you wouldn't have any problems selling frags of that coral as it is quite beautiful. You got a great deal for $10 too.

Louey

 

[Meloco14]

Looks like the Idaho Grape Monti to me. That is an LE.

Looks like one perhaps, but I sure as hell didn't pay for one. I'm can't be sure of a lineage, and some of those LE people don't like people claiming to have LEs unless they know for sure where it came from. Eitherway I got a frag for $10 of this (this is actually a frag that occured when one of my rocks fell over ).

It looks very similar to the idaho grape frag I got from Karl.

 

[WRASSER]

Looks like you left your lunch box by the tank :wink:

 

[Minh Nguyen]

Now I know where to go for frag by then time I have my tank up.
Very nice.

 

[Anonymous]

sfsuphysics wrote:

I'm can't be sure of a lineage, and some of those LE people don't like people claiming to have LEs unless they know for sure where it came from

I wouldn't sell it as an LE if you are unsure. I'm sure you wouldn't have any problems selling frags of that coral as it is quite beautiful. You got a great deal for $10 too.

Louey

I wouldn't sell it period, well ok maybe in the future when my tank is overgrown and I have to do constant pruning and have no room for any new coral frags I'll sell some of my stuff remembering that I didn't pay much for it either. Right now though I'm more than happy to give away frags even if it's a trade for something "of less value" (whatever that means really). We got a good community of reefers in this area, and I've given away quite a few niceties Oh yah I do have a few frags of a "true" idaho grape... quite honestly though they're small so don't really shoot out like this one, this is actually a large frag of my teacup saucer sized that I'm keeping, this is going out to a fellow reefer.

I got a couple other montiporas I like, a green with purple rim cap (not Leng Sy ), one I dub "The Phoenix Cap" (because it came back from the ashes of oblivion it's bright orange with a pink rim and pink polyps, and another super bright pink encrusting one (I'm unsure of species).

 

[Anonymous]

Ok I couldn't resist, here's my "The Phoenix Cap" I recently chopped up the mother colony into about 7 frags or so, this is the largest so this is MINE

Picture is a bit over saturated though, I'm still not sure how to take good pics of corals that are right under the bulb like this.

 

[Anonymous]

Nice stuff! THose frags would look better in my tank though.

I dont think Len has a tank.

 

[Minh Nguyen]

Len?????
Louey is call you out. Are you capitulated already?

 

[Anonymous]

Wrasser wrote:

Looks like you left your lunch box by the tank

Actually, that's the cooler that Sang Lee (Maximus) used to ship some frags to me. Quite a few reefers use coolers for shipping and the hold up great. They are crush proof and you don't have to worry about them shipping the box upside down. I now have a collection of 5 different coolers that various people have used to ship me some corals. It's the way to go. When my corals start overgrowing the tank, I'll be shipping out frags in them.

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

sfsuphyics wrote:

Right now though I'm more than happy to give away frags

When I was fragging out of my old 75G, I would gladly give away a frag of anything to any local reefer visiting my house. I also traded frags to my LFS's for store credit. The problem is, Fort Myers is a relatively small town. My fast growing corals saturated the market in no time. They weren't LE's or really anything worth shipping. I got to where I regularly threw out some clippings. I hated that. That's one of the reason I decided to load this tank with higher end frags that should have high demand once they start crowding each other and need to be clipped. I hope to make some money later to help off-set the maintenance cost of this tank, which is quite high (but worth every nickle.)

Louey

 

[Anonymous]

Oh I totally understand, if I paid for even a fraction of the frags you have I'd want some payback on them too And I totally can understand about the cost of a tank, maybe not as much as some of you who require chillers and have multiple 400w MH bulbs over your tank, but I see the electric bill every month

Problem with coral keeping/selling is that it's almost a pyramid scheme, by the time you get a bunch of your stuff grown out it's become a lot more common of a piece and as such has less of a value