That one special coral...

[Scutterborn]

Do you have one special coral in your tank? Does everyone notice it, or does it get overlooked? Is it a humble creature, but you still cherish it when you take some time to simply watch your reef? I have one like that, it's just doing its thing and from time to time it really catches my eye.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/04/pumy5uha.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/04/e4a3yjaj.jpg

What's yours? Feel free to post about it, why you like it and add a picture. This could be an interesting thread.


- Ben -

[350gt]

Its a love/hate with this guy


http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww125/gsrt5/IMG_9788.jpg~original


His color pop is awesome all time of the day or night but he takes up so much real estate, I want to yank him out.....


He will more than likely stay with my forever though..... only cause hes in a rock and I think it would be impossible to take him out without harming him...

[hobogato]

ben, is that the one i brought back to you as a rescue from the coast?

[alton]

Very nice Ben, I still remember standing in line at Felipes when he hosted a MAAST meeting to get my single headed Candy Cane for $5

[Troy Valentine]

http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww125/gsrt5/IMG_9788.jpg~original

That picture is amazing! Looks like something out of Avatar...

[Fracture]

Do you have one special coral in your tank? Does everyone notice it, or does it get overlooked? Is it a humble creature, but you still cherish it when you take some time to simply watch your reef? I have one like that, it's just doing its thing and from time to time it really catches my eye.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/04/pumy5uha.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/04/e4a3yjaj.jpg

What's yours? Feel free to post about it, why you like it and add a picture. This could be an interesting thread.


- Ben -

WOW just WOW I have been wanting to get me some of this its so beautiful you are doing a great job at raising it

[Southern Flame]

I have one special coral that I happened to acquire out of a dying tank on jan 24,2013

then 1month Later

and today May 3,2013 I've had to buy him his own rock to grow on to as he has grown a bit big for the plug he is on :)
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[Sherita]

Mine. Blood red blastos. The first thing anyone notices when they look in my tank.

http://coralbeauty.us/blastosxti.jpg

[Reefnub]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/04/9e3ezu5a.jpghttp://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/04/gagyvyve.jpg this guy sits in the back left corner and just keeps growing with it friend the clown.


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[Zack]

My toadstool that I got from Allan two years ago. Started as a 1x1 ugly duckling frag and is now a beautiful 5x4x3'' coral. Sad thing is, people still notice the GSP first :mad:

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd421/zackg7/P1050891-1_zpse6024c22.jpg (http://s1219.photobucket.com/user/zackg7/media/P1050891-1_zpse6024c22.jpg.html)

http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd421/zackg7/20130430_163047_zpsebb2a751.jpg (http://s1219.photobucket.com/user/zackg7/media/20130430_163047_zpsebb2a751.jpg.html)

[Scutterborn]

ben, is that the one i brought back to you as a rescue from the coast?

Yes sir! :)


-Ben-

[hobogato]

stellar job with that coral!

[Scutterborn]

stellar job with that coral!

I need to dig up a "before" pic.


-Ben-

[Fracture]

It's so hard to choose between my corals :) I love all of them. Justin said to think of it this way. If I came home and all my corals where gone which would I rather have live? I thought about it and I think I choose my baby plates because I have raised them for almost a year and watched them grow.
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/04/anevyvus.jpg
This pic was a couple of months ago.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/04/u4une5a5.jpg
A few days ago.

[1seahorse]

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Awesome pics guys... Mine is this NPS that I wish my cleaner shrimp would stop snagging it's food!

[Scutterborn]

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Awesome pics guys... Mine is this NPS that I wish my cleaner shrimp would stop snagging it's food!

That's a beautiful gorgonian!!!


-Ben-

[Scutterborn]

Do you have one special coral in your tank? Does everyone notice it, or does it get overlooked? Is it a humble creature, but you still cherish it when you take some time to simply watch your reef? I have one like that, it's just doing its thing and from time to time it really catches my eye.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/04/pumy5uha.jpg
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/04/e4a3yjaj.jpg

What's yours? Feel free to post about it, why you like it and add a picture. This could be an interesting thread.


- Ben -

Here is a "before" pic. A friend had a BTA that went rogue and this dude was in the line of fire.

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/04/ydypumu3.jpg


- Ben -

[Fracture]

Wow that's amazing

[SinisterLou]

Nice recovery Ben. I love the way it looks when its in feeder mode

[Big_Pun]

I love all my colored stix, but i guess my blue milli is my fav as ive had it the longest. my Oregon Tort is a close second

[allan]

Not many see this one, but it's one of my favorites. I got it from Mizeny three years ago or so... Sick neon green under the blues. I've accidentally broke this a couple of times and folks go after the pieces like a junky over spare change.

Neon green hydnophora

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[Fracture]

Not many see this one, but it's one of my favorites. I got it from Mizeny three years ago or so... Sick neon green under the blues. I've accidentally broke this a couple of times and folks go after the pieces like a junky over spare change.

Neon green hydnophora

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Thanks for posting this Allen it's a beautiful coral and I love my little frag I got of it but have been beating my head against the wall trying to remember what it's name is lol

[allan]

Lol


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[polarbear]

I don't have a lot of cool corals like most people do but mine has to be my 2 neon green palupa nepetha mother colonies. Both of these have been with me for a long time. They both started as 1 inch frags. I got them from an Austin Reef Club member named Dena when I was living in Austin over 4 years ago. I have fraged it several times for members and it continues to grow and do very well.

[hobogato]

great looking tank

[polarbear]

Thank you.

[hobogato]

the one i check on first every day is my recovering H. magnifica anemone. hard to believe it pulled thru and has been in the tank almost a year now

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/250/DSC01482_zpse4762f4b.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/250/DSC01481_zps50c24d11.jpg

[Scutterborn]

the one i check on first every day is my recovering H. magnifica anemone. hard to believe it pulled thru and has been in the tank almost a year now

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/250/DSC01482_zpse4762f4b.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/250/DSC01481_zps50c24d11.jpg

Wow, Ace, that magnifica has really pulled through and is looking brilliant!


-Ben-

[hobogato]

yeah, it is back up to about half of its original size now - still some road to cover tho.

[Fracture]

the one i check on first every day is my recovering H. magnifica anemone. hard to believe it pulled thru and has been in the tank almost a year now

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/250/DSC01482_zpse4762f4b.jpg

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/250/DSC01481_zps50c24d11.jpg

Wow that looks pretty it looks kinda like mine I think what do you think? http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/06/va3eqabu.jpg

[hobogato]

it does right now, when it is back to full health it will look very different. here is a pic from when i first got it

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c329/hobogato/250/DSC00127.jpg

i dont have any pics of when it was at its worst, but i really didnt think it was going to pull thru.

[LuckySingh]

I hve few hammers but this pic came out really Gud
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/05/12/asyzu7us.jpg


Thanks
Lucky Singh