Your favorite SPS!!

[Unarce]

Just wanted to see what your favorite piece is. Here's mine. Blue and white true A. echinata:

 

[SnowManSnow]

purdy

 

[Anonymous]

Well I doubt any of my SPS would be collectors forum worthy... thanks a lot Karl

 

[Unarce]

Nonsense, Mike! Just post which one you like the most. The one that you religiously check on the most :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

The ones I check on the most are not my favorites, because they're still not doing well. Not doing any worse, but not doing any better.

I have three montis doing very well, and also a pocillipora and pavona that have colored up a bit and are growing steadily.

However, I'm just not prepared for SPS yet. Maybe someday I'll throw a 250W halide over a 20g and try some, but not now.

I'll stick to my LPS.

BTW, Karl...I have an A. echinata and it looks NOTHING like that!

Peace,

Chip

 

[Unarce]

Thanks for going against the grain, Chip :? What's the piece you posted above? Also, can we get a pic of the Acropora echinata you have?

 

[Anonymous]

The piece I posted is A. echinata.

Peace,

Chip

 

[Unarce]

Oh, you were just being a smart@$$

 

[bleedingthought]

Looks like aiptasia to me!

 

[Anonymous]

I bought this coral (well, actually, it's parent by several generations of frags) from Jeff Majdali of Jeff's Exotic Fish back in 1998, who got it through Bob Mankin/Coralfarms and the Solomons farms. Grew it out in my tank for four years, trading frags of it away to dozens of people.

The pictured colony is Tracy Gray's, who I traded a couple of frags to in 2001. He sells it through Reef Farmers as a limited edition these days.

I'm looking for a frag to grow out in the new tank. Anyone who has one they'd part with, please contact me.

 

[naka]

Here's my Oregon Tort

Hey Karl, notice the small echinata frag. It's from James @ Aquascene. I wonder if it's the same true echinata as yours?

James

 

[Unarce]

Yup...it's the one from Aquascene, too. Via, Sand Dollar.

 

[naka]

Cool, can't wait till mine grows out.

Thanks,

James

 

[Anonymous]

Ok being as I don't have anything particularlly super fabulous now I'll post my favorite one.

Acropora Microphthalma, not rare, not stunning colored, but it does grow like crazy, it can take a beating and keep on ticking Actually I'm just waiting for everything I have to kind of fill in over the next few years then we'll see what stings what and restrticts who's growth.

The great thing about this piece is that I had a "colony" about half the size of this, however I whacked it and literally gave it a flattop, right to the base, so it encrusted and eventually branched out as viewed above, now I glued this to another rock piece, and wouldn't you know it I whacked that piece as well as it grew out, it has encrusted as well. I also found another color morph of the microphthalma and mounted it "horizontally" (it's flat against the rock but the rock is at about a 60 degree slope) but it's making a nice base before shooting up any stalks.

What happened to the frag of this I whacked off? Well I didn't want nothing my micropthalma growing in my tank so I just glued it to the in the back... oh yah it's encrusting there too!

 

[Unarce]

Sounds like a real winner, Mike. You should call it the robust acro

cj - that's a really nice prostrata. I used to have a colony of the Hot Pink prostrata, but it died in someone else's tank after a trade

 

[Sue Truett]

I have been on Steve's list for years now for a frag of Tracy's prostrata and as of yet nothing...

For my current fav. would have to be my 30,000 league lokani and a ty with my oregon tort. Sorry no pics just yet, their still babies. The lokani is bigger.

Thanks Sang...

 

[DaddyJax]

It is a toss up between these two.

 

[Duec22]

I don't have a decent pic of mine, but in all honestly I'm constanly amazed by my cali. tort. Such a beautiful coral with such a range of color in it. Green on the body going to purple...bule tips, and bright green on the inside of the axial coralites...amazing...

 

[Snappy]

Wow DaddyJax those are sweet.

 

[Len]

I still miss my original Purple Monster colony