Amphibious' 135 gal Reef - Page 9

veriann · 07-15-2006, 11:01 AM

hey Amp, what are u target feeding your Dendronephthya or Neospongodes?
what about these makes them special in your eyes?

**Amphibious** · 07-15-2006, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by veriann

hey Amp, what are u target feeding your Dendronephthya or Neospongodes?
what about these makes them special in your eyes?

Hey V, I'm target feeding Cyclop-eeze. These corals are just beautiful and challanging.

wildeone · 07-16-2006, 01:04 PM

What form of cyclo are you feeding? And to what corals, all of them?

**Amphibious** · 07-16-2006, 01:26 PM

The frozen is easiest because it sinks. I feed all corals that have visible tentacles/polyps or a mouth. So my SPSs, LPSs, paliothas, Hammer, Frog Spawn, Zoanthids, Anthelia, what ever I have. The larger the polyp/mouth area the more I concentrate on them but all get a squirt. I turn the pump off and feed a few minutes after and leave the pump off about 30 minutes. Do they all show signs of ingesting the food? Not really. But they are not showing any signs of distress from it and all are growing and looking good (happy?).

**Amphibious** · 07-25-2006, 11:20 AM

Several weeks ago I bought a second Blue Line Goby (BLG) to befriend the one I had. At first there was no friendship and I thought I'd made a mistake. Nothing but serious territorial fighting with the new guy taking quite a beating. He wasn't getting much to eat and I feared for his life. After a few days of this behavior, BLG-1 began to accept BLG-2 reluctantly allowing him/her/it to feed. They say time heals all wounds. Then, as is so often seen in human life, hate turned to tolerance, tolerance turned to acceptance and acceptance turned to LOVE???

Hmmm, that's what it looks like. Here's a series of pics depicting the behavior.

Courtship can get pretty rough. If my guess, through experience, is correct the biggest, BLG-1 is the female and she still beats on BLG-2 (male?). But, not as furiously as when first introduced. This is interesting stuff but, has not produced any offspring, yet.

gwen_o_lyn · 07-25-2006, 11:24 AM

awww they are so cute!!

**Amphibious** · 07-25-2006, 12:00 PM

Thanks, Gwen!

**Amphibious** · 07-25-2006, 05:41 PM

I thought I'd show you some Limited Edition frags I purchased from Steve Tyree of CA. The first picture will be the original frag as it came to me and then the latest picture would be close to today's date.

The first is in the genus Seriatopora originally collected in Ponape in 2003 by Bill Shroer. No one has identified the species positively. It's a slow growing, low light, delecate looking coral that is beautiful, IMHO.

First picture, as it came to me in April '06.

Not much to look at for an $80 coral, Limited Edition or not.

Here's how it looks today, July '06, three months later. Slowly, growth and color comes.

**Amphibious** · 07-25-2006, 08:37 PM

For those who are not familiar with Limited Edition corals, Steve Tyree and others get their hands on some of the most beautiful corals that come into the USA because they live out in CA. Over the years they have gotten into the LA wholesalers and cherry picked the incoming corals. They have formed a coral growers coop and share these precious corals among themselves so that if someone has a wipe out of a coral or system as far as that goes, they can get these corals from members of the coop and begin again. I'm not sure it works exactly that way but close.

Anyway, Steve limits the number of frags he sells from each mother colony to usually one a month. some slow growers are every other month. You reserve your frag by contacting steve and he assigns a frag month to you and you wait until that month. He's reserved out two, three and four years on some corals.

This coral came in quite large compared to all the others I've received from Steve Tyree. This was $70 and is a Limited Edition coral. It's a fast grower as you can see. First the original......

It stood about three inches tall and in excellent condition. Now three month's later.....

Acropora loisettae today. That's pretty impressive growth, IMHO.

I could actually trim a frag or two off at this point but, I'm not.

**CarmieJo** · 07-25-2006, 11:15 PM

Nice. Thanks for educating me on the Limited Edition name.

**Amphibious** · 07-26-2006, 09:26 AM

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Originally Posted by CarmieJo

Nice. Thanks for educating me on the Limited Edition name.

You're welcome. I'm happy to share.

Continuing on.......

Here's an interesting point. The pictures on Steve's web site are of mother colonies for the most part and the frags you get are not necessarily going to look like the picture. Some, I've had to e-mail Steve so he can ID them. Not only that problem but, many corals look like others. It can get confusing.

Here's a case in point. The Bali Tri Color on Steve's site shows a branching upright coral of beautiful coloration. (Steve's pictures are copyrighted so I can't show you his without permission. I think he'd give it to me but I haven't asked.) Here's what I got........

This is not what I was expecting the Bali to look like at all. Watch how things change as the frag matures in just one month.

Some growth and color changes are apparent and below after three months.

Pretty dramatic changes. You can see not only plating growth but the coral is beginning to show it's propensity to grow upward. This is going to become a dramatically beautiful coral. I'm not sure I'll be able to frag it.

Dick

fat walrus · 07-27-2006, 03:21 AM

very nice, Amp.

wildeone · 08-07-2006, 10:49 PM

Great looking stuff Amp. I have never shut my pumps off and left them off after feedings for a bit. I think I will do that starting tomorrow, that sounds smart!

veriann · 08-07-2006, 10:53 PM

thanks Amp, i was wondering where i left my chewing gum