CHALICE EXPERIENCE.....

[LuckySingh]

i agree...miami huricane is probaly the fastest growing chalice out there...i picked up mine from kevin a nice size colony and it nearly doubled up in few months....I am not a chalice expert but like to collect chalice and all my chalices r doin great and now i got em MH 2x150watt 20k bulbs...Its been about a little over a month since i upgrade my lights and i can see the growth...Rob was right even my scolys r responding well under these lights... I hve several le watertmelon chalices they r all growing besides my tyrees pink watermelon...lots of flesh with few eyes....

by the way next on my list is ktar's melting pot and purple urkkle....any one with experience keeping these yummies...????

[ismvel]

I used to have a Bubble Gum Monster that I picked up from Jeremy before he left...
What it looked like when I purchased it...


What it looked like before I fragged it and eventually lost it :( Loved it...



It was a nice little piece and its tentacles were not the longest, but i could see them...(although not they aren't overly present in these pictures)

[LuckySingh]

Yea man forgot to to mention..BM is another chalice that grows like weed..u can frag it and it will heal over few days and start to grow...My colony was over 60 eyes and I took off on a trip ..when I came back found my plate coral on my BM..1/3 of my colony destroyed :cry_smile..that was a big loss:

[justahobby]

Another Gold in the Bunker for Mr Cobs here. I've only had it for two weeks, but I haven't seen any sweeper tentacles and it is definitely growing under 1 yr old PC lighting in BC14. I actually think I saw more growth when it was in the sand vs. being up higher.

[LuckySingh]

every chalice response different..i hve double colony of few chalice and one them colonys sweepers r like few inches long and other one smll...
i wanted to share this pic and see what u"ll say...
no name chalice sme ausie kind was totaly red and started to hve different color lines and pigment in it....

this pic is old was taken few months ago and will try to get recent pic...
growth is realy slow..i mean dead slow..probaly hasnt grown much in 6 months since i hve it..but colors r comin out nice slow by slow

[d3rryc]

I got a strawberry/bubble gum frag last Jan that had just finished encrusting the frag disc. It's now 5-6" in diameter under 250MH at mid-tank, but it puts out 4-6" sweepers ever night. I had a nice little colony of African Blue zoas going until the chalice got big enough to reach them with the sweepers.

[LuckySingh]

My monster mash is another super slow grower ...three eyes on a with a 1"1/2 diameter.. could sprout more eyes but flesh probaly stays like this for ever..

[Big_Pun]

i have a hot pink chalice, and hollywood stunner, all under t5 growing very well and very fast. both have no sweepers, also very hardy.

[hobogato]

yeah, that pink one originally came in with felipe at fin addict. it is the fastest growing and hardiest chalice i have had throughout the years. as far as the original post for this thread, i have kept several different species of Echinophyllia and have never seen sweepers longer than about 1/2". most of the named chalices around are E. aspera which has small mouths and very short feeders.

[LuckySingh]

Need help in identifying this chalice

http://i996.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/IMG_1575.jpg