Jon in SW Ohio
Reefer, the legal kind
Amazing how quickly this little tank changes and fills up. Just like growing areas for orchids, things get shuffled all around to make room for the new orders that arrive.
The tank today:
An impressive recovery, my Porites sp. rock with Spirobranchius tube worms. The coral the worms live in was nearly dead when purchased and was bleached terribly. Over the last couple of months the color and polyps have been coming back, and it's taken on its typical "brown that shines green" coloration.
My Lien copy cat coral, the red/pink Goniopora.
Red mushroom coral, not showing its vibrance on film. In person it is electric looking. A local coral greenhouse wouldn't sell me one of theirs saying they wanted to propagate them because they would be too expensive. I found this one online for twenty bucks, and got another one thrown in as a freebie. The greenhouse owner turned nearly as red as the mushroom when he heard I got two for twenty dollars. He said he couldn't get them for twice that wholesale.
Now for my current addiction, the Zoanthids. They are sometimes called sea mat or colonial anemones, and are getting very popular. There are some very colorful ones, and many have been getting names similar to the clonal name on an orchid(more like the japanese name on a Neofinetia), and the popular named ones get very expensive. They are easy to propagate from division, so lately I've been buying and trading them from other people.
This looks like some bland Zoa to non-reefing people, but on the reefing forums this thing is gold. It is an Orange People Eater. People Eater is a common term for ones with a green slit mouth. Orange is one of the rarest colors.
Armor of God on the left, a few misc ones on a rock. The blue ones in the middle(3 polyps) are all the rage right now, and go for high prices as well.
Left is an Eclipse Yellow, middle is a Whamin Watermelon Eagle Eye, right is a Ricordia florida mushroom. The green and white one on top is an unnamed People Eater.
My camera shy Eye of Rah colony, but I bought it for the yellow skirted ones in the middle.
Some more Zoas from the other side
Pretty Penny Zoas
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HONDA CBR1000F HISTORY
The tank today:
An impressive recovery, my Porites sp. rock with Spirobranchius tube worms. The coral the worms live in was nearly dead when purchased and was bleached terribly. Over the last couple of months the color and polyps have been coming back, and it's taken on its typical "brown that shines green" coloration.
My Lien copy cat coral, the red/pink Goniopora.
Red mushroom coral, not showing its vibrance on film. In person it is electric looking. A local coral greenhouse wouldn't sell me one of theirs saying they wanted to propagate them because they would be too expensive. I found this one online for twenty bucks, and got another one thrown in as a freebie. The greenhouse owner turned nearly as red as the mushroom when he heard I got two for twenty dollars. He said he couldn't get them for twice that wholesale.
Now for my current addiction, the Zoanthids. They are sometimes called sea mat or colonial anemones, and are getting very popular. There are some very colorful ones, and many have been getting names similar to the clonal name on an orchid(more like the japanese name on a Neofinetia), and the popular named ones get very expensive. They are easy to propagate from division, so lately I've been buying and trading them from other people.
This looks like some bland Zoa to non-reefing people, but on the reefing forums this thing is gold. It is an Orange People Eater. People Eater is a common term for ones with a green slit mouth. Orange is one of the rarest colors.
Armor of God on the left, a few misc ones on a rock. The blue ones in the middle(3 polyps) are all the rage right now, and go for high prices as well.
Left is an Eclipse Yellow, middle is a Whamin Watermelon Eagle Eye, right is a Ricordia florida mushroom. The green and white one on top is an unnamed People Eater.
My camera shy Eye of Rah colony, but I bought it for the yellow skirted ones in the middle.
Some more Zoas from the other side
Pretty Penny Zoas
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HONDA CBR1000F HISTORY
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