CB Pets Corals ::PICS::

[ansonluna]

Man, I have the luck of the Irish (well, mexican irish)!!! I rolled into CB today (5th) to pick up some SPS I had seen last week.....and just my luck they had just got in a brand new shipment and were opening the bags. I snagged two nice pieces, but there are still some beautiful stuff left....that is if Richard didn't take it all home....GO QUICKLY tomorrow!!!!!

[Richard]

LOL...We have a rule that everything must be offered for sale at least a day before we can go cherry picking. So I have to wait till saturday to take anything. Plus you already snagged the one I was REALLY eyeballing when I unbagged it :angry.

So for anyone who comes out before I can go shopping....the cap is very evil! It has redbugs and flatworms and ich. Don't buy it!

Thanks for coming out !!!

[ansonluna]

OMG!!!! That cap is BAD ***, it has like lime green polyps!!!!!!! Here are some pics of what I got, they had been in the tank for only like 20 mins. Remember my camera sucks a taking pics of corals. ENJOY!!!

[ansonluna]

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[ansonluna]

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[ansonluna]

opps, sorry for this post....

[TheOtherGuy]

Good thing you snagged that one!

Because I wanted that one too!

If you didn't take it - Richard and I would still be there fighting over who gets it! LOL.

[hobogato]

you are right, that cap is sweet. it is already getting a purple tint and the polyps are neon green. here are a couple more i got there yesteday too.

cap (sorry for the OOF)
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/lavendergreenpolyp.jpg

green w/red tip sarmetosa?
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/sarmentosa.jpg

humulus
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/humulus2.jpg

at night
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/humulus.jpg

hoeksi??? green with blue tips
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/hoeksi.jpg

[JimD]

Is it me or do they all look similar in color? What lighting are those under? That one 'could' be A. Sarmentosa, it certainly has the correct form, Id like to see it under some 10k's. The last one is questionable, it really doesnt have the coralite structure to be a Hoek, looks more like some sort of tort. Again, its hard to tell with all the blue. A close-up would be cool too.

[hobogato]

well, mark and my wife said the last one was probably a tort, someone else i know (who knows more than me) said it might be a hoeksi - hense the ???? because i dont know for sure. the one that grows like a sarmentosa (not sure about it either - my wife thought it looked a little like a tenuis) is green and the very end of the coralites are maroonish red. i do have lots of actinic, and am running 14k MH, but the camera just isn't getting the color right. i am still playing with settings to try to get better pics. as far as them being similar in color, what can i say, im a sucker for teal, green and blue.

[GaryP]

I think you mean sameonsis.

[akm]

I think you mean sameonsis.

For the Sarmentosa?

[hobogato]

well, i have one sameonsis from you and another one today, and they are more pointed than that one, so i thought it looked more like a humulus.

[ansonluna]

i like....and don't really care what they are....you snagged some nice ones. if i had the money i would have bought them all.

[hobogato]

i think we should just call them Acropora prettiensis and be done with it :P

[ansonluna]

more like Acropora ****iwishihadmoremoneysis.

[hobogato]

Acropora iusedtohavemoremoneyensis

closeups and current best guesses on names (sorry for the OOF -trying to get the hang of the macro lens)

sarmentosa?
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/sarmentosa2.jpg

tort??
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/tort2.jpg
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/tort1.jpg

[Richard]

I think the frag is a sarmentosa. It's a frag from my tank ;) . I'll try to get a pic of the mother colony.

I thought the second one was a tort but then again I'm not very good at acro id. Mark just got the 3 volumes of "Corals of the World" books, maybe he can find it in there. It looked like a really good book for id'ing acros/sps. It looked like it had pics of all the acro species and a drawing of what the corallites looked like for each one also. It's expensive though.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0642322368/qid=1136743586/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-9524778-4348957?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

[gjuarez]

I like the samoensis, nice little colony. The others are nice too. This last one does look like a tort to me.

[TheOtherGuy]

Trying to find other tort like acros in my new book And.....

Well figures, right after I get these new books I find this place

http://whelk.aims.gov.au/coralsearch/coralsearch.php

Looks like a mini version of the books.

But, then again I am a book nut so I still like the books. :D

I do like the online version too.....

Search engine seems a little strange though? :unsure

[hobogato]

i still think the fat one is a humulus - not sameonsis, but im gonna look it up in marks book to made a better decision.

[Richard]

Well I'm just not that into acro id but I will guess A. austera on the tort like one.