saltwatersig
Guest
Copps vesuvious monti
Miami orchid
Aussie blue sps
pink lemonade / shades of fall I can't remember which one it is under my leds (lol)
What are you bringing to the swap ?
- Thread starter saltwatersig
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Copps vesuvious monti
Miami orchid
Aussie blue sps
pink lemonade / shades of fall I can't remember which one it is under my leds (lol)
saltwatersig
Guest
WT mother of pearl
a polyp or two of Black hornets
also bringing the plain old stuff
Setosa
bright green slimer
tri color acro
purple stylo
green acro (thin branching type)
Enderturtle
Guest
Alright Sergio bringing some heat to this frag swap!
Also you need to save those black hornets. Those other zoas are taking up its real estate
Will post my pictures in a second.
Heres what im bringing.
Bird of Paradise Birdsnest
Baby Jawbreaker Mushroom
Rainbow Acan
Big Head Dendro
Green/Red Favia
Teal Ricordea Florida
Meteor Shower Cyphastrea
Sakura Sunrise Zoa
Tyree Orange Rainbow Zoa
Wild Green Zoa
Yellow Highlighter Zoa
Electric Oompa Loompa Zoa
Gold Maul Zoa
CRC Darth Maul Zoa
Chiquita Zoa
Pink Fusion Zoa
King Midas Zoa
Sunny D's Zoas
Also you need to save those black hornets. Those other zoas are taking up its real estate
Will post my pictures in a second.
Heres what im bringing.
Bird of Paradise Birdsnest
Baby Jawbreaker Mushroom
Rainbow Acan
Big Head Dendro
Green/Red Favia
Teal Ricordea Florida
Meteor Shower Cyphastrea
Sakura Sunrise Zoa
Tyree Orange Rainbow Zoa
Wild Green Zoa
Yellow Highlighter Zoa
Electric Oompa Loompa Zoa
Gold Maul Zoa
CRC Darth Maul Zoa
Chiquita Zoa
Pink Fusion Zoa
King Midas Zoa
Sunny D's Zoas
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sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
Damnit Sergio... I don't think my system is SPS ready yet (of course I don't know why but that's another story!).
I don't do names, so I'm bringing some red blastomussa wellsi, red/blue blasto merletti, some pink sparkly zoa, some red zoa, maybe a favia... some green with other color chalice, and some other chalice with different colors I'll try to post pictures before the swap and maybe someone can nail down a name for me to write on the containers
I don't do names, so I'm bringing some red blastomussa wellsi, red/blue blasto merletti, some pink sparkly zoa, some red zoa, maybe a favia... some green with other color chalice, and some other chalice with different colors
I'll try to post pictures before the swap and maybe someone can nail down a name for me to write on the containers
Enderturtle
Guest
Flaming Zebras
Tyree Orange Rainbow Zoa
Electric Oompa Loompa
Meteor Shower Cyphastrea
Chiquita Zoas
Rainbow Acan from Alecs (Put him in lower light, the green/yellow will pop!)
Fathead Dendro
Cali Reef Co. Darth Maul Zoa
Yellow Highlighter Zoas (so much brighter than king midas)
Baby Jawbreaker, Bird of Paradise, Sakura Sunrise Zoa
And then I'm also bringing all the stuff I mentioned up top.
Tyree Orange Rainbow Zoa
Electric Oompa Loompa
Meteor Shower Cyphastrea
Chiquita Zoas
Rainbow Acan from Alecs (Put him in lower light, the green/yellow will pop!)
Fathead Dendro
Cali Reef Co. Darth Maul Zoa
Yellow Highlighter Zoas (so much brighter than king midas)
Baby Jawbreaker, Bird of Paradise, Sakura Sunrise Zoa
And then I'm also bringing all the stuff I mentioned up top.
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saltwatersig
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saltwatersig
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have I mentioned how much I hate fragging coral , well here are some of the stuff that's been fragged so far
saltwatersig
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Enderturtle
Guest
Well I guess no one else bringing any corals to this swap.
It'll me and sergio trading corals with each other
I'm really liking that aussie blue acro!
It'll me and sergio trading corals with each other
I'm really liking that aussie blue acro!
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brettandlyndis
Guest
very nice corals! so far, I'm planning on bringing a teal and brown trumpet coral, red candy monti cap, watermelon mushrooms, possibly some zoas and birdsnest.
sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
So what tricks do some of you use to remove algae from frag plugs? I thought about popping it off and putting it on a new plug but half the point of fragging early is so that you get something that grows in a bit. Then the other side of that is there are people who simply chops off frag plugs regardless of how much is encrusted. But then there's the people who in the past have complained that there was algae and other crap of plugs. Can't please everyone even when it's free stuff.
saltwatersig
Guest
Tell them you are just using it to protect the frags , like a you would use to ship fragile stuff. protective bubble algae wrap. lol
Enderturtle
Guest
mike don't worry about the algae lol but hey I guess if you want to scrape it off, you can just bone cutters or something with a straight edge.
If it were me, I wouldn't worry about it. I treat every single frag I get (from the store, from the frag swap, from an online vendor) as if it was covered with every single pest species.
If it were me, I wouldn't worry about it. I treat every single frag I get (from the store, from the frag swap, from an online vendor) as if it was covered with every single pest species.
Ahruk
Guest
Those are some beautiful Sps, wish I could take care of them.
I thought share some of what I'm bringing. Sorry for crapppy pictures, don't do any of my corals justice.
Teal/Green Favia with orange center
Green base/purple polyp monti
Unnamed Zoas colony
Unnamed Zoas (which I'm totally in love with- skirts looks yellow and centers look pink with green, yellow and blue in b/t under my blue lights)
As well as pink hallucinations, pink zippers and red hornets
I thought share some of what I'm bringing. Sorry for crapppy pictures, don't do any of my corals justice.
Teal/Green Favia with orange center
Green base/purple polyp monti
Unnamed Zoas colony
Unnamed Zoas (which I'm totally in love with- skirts looks yellow and centers look pink with green, yellow and blue in b/t under my blue lights)
As well as pink hallucinations, pink zippers and red hornets
Nav
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I always try to get the frag off the frag plug when possible, if it's little encrusted, I'm careful enough to get it out with the encrusted part (just because I hate plugs and I let frags grow on rubble & move them around).
I've also in the past used H2O2 to dip the plug to clear all algae out of it. The ratio of H2O2 to water depends on what coral they are. I got this off a thread in RC:
SPS - 1:20
LPS - 1:4 (no chalices)
Zoas - 1:3
sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
Ok here's a couple of the chalices I'll bring, would love some identification as far as a commonly used name (if one exists)
saltwatersig
Guest
I think the second one is miami hurricane. The first one looks cool though.
Wow, looks like people are bringing some crazy cool pieces! I'm happy I'm finally at the point with my tank where I can actually bring stuff... but it's not as exciting as what others are showing off!
Red Hornets
Green zoa that I don't know the name of. I assume pretty common, even though I don't see it in the local shops. Very easy to grow...
Colony of I what I think are Blue Kiss zoas. Look familiar @Enderturtle?
Now for a couple of bad sps pics. Zoas photograph well with with the light behind them, but not the sps...
Bird of Paradise. Does have mostly green skin, just can't see it here
"Apon's pocillopora", I picked up what grew into a small colony of this up at the last frag swap, and it's grown nicely. This piece is a bit light at the base because it was being shaded, hopefully it'll color up a little more by the swap.
2 pieces of light green birdsnest. Rotten pic, it's a nice green with a light tan skin. Other one is the blurry piece to the right, behind it.
Also have a couple of Tubb's Blue zoas on a plug that I'll bring if they look good by then, right now a little small and not opening as much as I'd like, so we'll see. Everything was glued about a week ago.
Red Hornets
Green zoa that I don't know the name of. I assume pretty common, even though I don't see it in the local shops. Very easy to grow...
Colony of I what I think are Blue Kiss zoas. Look familiar @Enderturtle?
Now for a couple of bad sps pics. Zoas photograph well with with the light behind them, but not the sps...
Bird of Paradise. Does have mostly green skin, just can't see it here
"Apon's pocillopora", I picked up what grew into a small colony of this up at the last frag swap, and it's grown nicely. This piece is a bit light at the base because it was being shaded, hopefully it'll color up a little more by the swap.
2 pieces of light green birdsnest. Rotten pic, it's a nice green with a light tan skin. Other one is the blurry piece to the right, behind it.
Also have a couple of Tubb's Blue zoas on a plug that I'll bring if they look good by then, right now a little small and not opening as much as I'd like, so we'll see. Everything was glued about a week ago.
sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
Yeah I think the guy who donated a ton of these to a swap or two ago said it was a Miami Hurricane, but then I recall someone complaining after the swap that it wasn't.
First one got from a BAR raffle back in the day, the sponsor I think called it "Alien Invader" I think it's similar to the "Alien Eye" (at least that's what google shows me) and I remember those days of every LFS getting corals that kinda sorta looked like a particular popular named one and simply copied that name.
So maybe I'll just call them
Miami Hurricane(ish) chalice
Alien Eye(ish) chalice