Paly's identification

[polarbear]

When i got these the person told me they were fairy dust palys. I recently traded a fellow member some and they stated these do not look like any fairy dust palys they could find. Now I thinking they might be called something else. My picture is bad but the are a pinkish cream color in the middle. They also grow pretty fast.

Can anyone help id these?


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[ErikH]

Fairy Dusts vary. High light, they speckle like mad. Lower light and they turn into brown palys with very little speckle. Growth rate is off the charts.

[polarbear]

I figured they would change depending on the lights and height in the tank. I just want to make sure so that I dont give out the wrong information to other members.

[Pennies2Cents]

Yup Fairy Dust Indeed. Growth rate is super fast and hardy. We have our colonies at the top of our tanks, in the 240 and on the wall in the 40 under Metal Halides. The one in the 240 covers 2 large rocks and is quite neat the one in the 40 gal covers the back wall with in 6 months or so... :)

[350gt]

Yup those are fairy dust.

[polarbear]

Thanks to all of you for responding. Ya the ones in my 90 gallon cover about a 10in by 10in rock and are starting to grow over onto other rocks and on the back wall. Im going to be selling the whole rock or fragging them out soon and just keep the ones I have growing on the tonga branch and wall. If anyones interested in a large colony or frags just let me know. I have a bunch.

[reefreak]

what will you sell the whole thing for?

[polarbear]

Im not sure since ill have to estimate the number of polyps. Like I said its huge and has a lot of polyps.

[Noob]

I'd be interested in a small frag if you ever make your way down to san antonio

[polarbear]

Thats cool. Im really thinking about fragging it our. I just need to get a frag tank set up (which i already have but need to convince the wife to let me do it) and get some frag plugs. I could have easly over 30 frags of 5 polyps each if I fraged it out.

How much do you think a 5 polyp frag out be good to sell for? I have never had anything to frag out before.

[Mr Cob]

fairy dust grow like crazy...almost a pest unless you keep it on an island or some way of keeping it from the rest of your reef. They will choke out other zoa colonies and grow on anything they can touch. We would sell 10+ polyp frags for $10 on average. Members trade them here and also sell for around $5-$10 a frag...I've seen lots of members give them away for free as well.

High light and they are pretty, low light and they wash out like already mentioned. These used to be a highend paly until people realized how fast they grow. Similar in growth to GSP, Xenia, Kenya Trees, Yellow Polyps etc.

[allan]

That polyp that I got from you has completely over run the rock I put it on. One half polyps and then blastos on the other side.

[profntbtr]

i told you they grow crazy fast, how are the blastos growing for you?

[polarbear]

Glad to hear they are doing well.

[allan]

Blastos are doing great although one kanked on me the other day.

Dude, if you're interested in going into the fragging business I'd go ahead and put a $5 note to each frag. Five or so polyps to each frag. They sell, great. They don't, take them in for store credit... and that's great too. This hobby can be danged expensive without the fragging to offset the cost. It can be fun, until you have to do 30 single polyp frags, then it's just a PITA.

[Scutterborn]

Are you reminiscing again, Allan?


- Ben -

[polarbear]

Do you know which stores would give store credit? Or do I just need to call to find out? I was thinking that price. I would frag them then let them start to grow a little before selling so that they are all attached well and starting to grow new polyps which wouldnt take long at all.

[allan]

Just about all of them run some form of credit based on what you drop off, there are differences between them as far as how they run the program. Wish they'd post up on their forum threads as to what they accept or what they don't.

I've dropped off at ER and TT. I was going to drop off at AD at one point, but they tend to 'order' more than accept. I think it's because there you get credit up front which gives them the liability as to whether it will sell or not. TT is strictly consignment, which I really like because if my stuff doesn't survive I don't want to take credit for it. ER does a combination of the two depending on dialogue with Louis.

I'm sure others do it as well, but I've not had the opportunity to check anyone out. Todd took me down to TT a couple of years ago and I've sort of fell into a routine.

I will say this about fragging though... you frag one frag and you will have one success. You frag five, you will most likely have five successes. You frag 20 and you can expect some to just disapear or die off. It's odd to see a rack full of coral frags... and a few of them are just empty frag plugs.

[polarbear]

I understand. I need to get my 10 gallon hooked up to my main system. I have a 50/50 light that should work since its rated for more then a 10 gallon tank. I have everything I need to run this frag tank. I just need to figure out where to put it since the wife doesnt want it setting out in the open. I can put it in my tank room which is where my sump is housed (behind the main tank wall under the stairs). I have to figure something out soon before these polyps over grow everywhere.