Anybody have a grown out TSA Woolly Mammoth

[Herby’s reef]

Just curious, I have never seen anybody post a grown out colony of this one. I have a small frag and it does not even look close to the mother colony they post. It is brown and has smaller polyps than my palmers blue Mille. I am just wondering if it will get better, or if their photo has been altered a huge amount! If it is not going to get better I am going to move it to a less prominent part of my tank, or possibly even to the frag tank!

Thanks,

David

 

[Deep dive coral]

What kind of lighting do you have? What are your water parameters compared to where the original colony was? How old is the frag? Can you post a picture?

 

[Herby’s reef]

It’s only 6 months old and has not grown much. I know I’m probably worrying too early, but I have never seen a colony of this, so I just wondered. I have radion gen 4 pro and t5 hybrid. All blue plus t5 and ab plus radion setting. Alk is 8, ph 8.1 to 8.2, cal 420, mag 1350 nitrates are 5ish, phos .03 from ulr Hana . Similar to what TSA keeps. I will post a picture tomorrow, but it’s not much to look at!

 

[Softhammer]

Had to look this one up, man I need one of those!

 

[Herby’s reef]

this is the frag they sent me

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Were you expecting it to have crazy long polyps like their pic? Sorry you got such a brown frag, I would expect more from any high end shop.

 

[Softhammer]

That looks absolutely nothing like what I googled up.

 

[Softhammer]

Don’t feel too bad though, I have 3 frags from Top Shelf that have shown virtually zero growth in a year. I’m certain it’s not my system either, I have 90 other sps corals growing insane amounts. Kind of sucks though because the 3 are the most expensive I have ever bought and without a doubt are the most lame I have ever had. That was without question a one and done dealing with TSA.

 

[Herby’s reef]

My other sps are growing well. I always expect a frag to be browned a bit, but this is not even close. I would expect it to at least have as long of polyps as a Mille. This thing has the smallest polyps of any of my sps other than a few smooth skin ones I have. Oh well, I guess it will go in the frag tank and I will see if it ever colors up or gets better polyps

 

[Graffiti Spot]

This is the main reason I only buy boxes of wilds now. No disappointment or feelings of being ripped off. The high end vendors now have to resort to making average corals look or seem like rare gems because there is almost nothing new coming in. Things are changing that’s for sure.

 

[Softhammer]

Heard that!

 

[russian_monster3283]

Here is mine know this is an old post

 

[Dfrashid]

Hey if, anybody has a grow out if this frag, I would love to buy it

 

[REEFRIED!]

This is the main reason I only buy boxes of wilds now. No disappointment or feelings of being ripped off. The high end vendors now have to resort to making average corals look or seem like rare gems because there is almost nothing new coming in. Things are changing that’s for sure.

How do you buy boxes of wild? Through your LFS?

 

[VintageReefer]

How do you buy boxes of wild? Through your LFS?

I read this entire thread and the only thing that stuck in my head was “where does this guy buy boxes of wild sps”

 

[bryce.martin]

This is the main reason I only buy boxes of wilds now. No disappointment or feelings of being ripped off. The high end vendors now have to resort to making average corals look or seem like rare gems because there is almost nothing new coming in. Things are changing that’s for sure.

I just got back in the hobby and I'm already seeing the buy buy buy trend going on. Local store had a nice grafted monti cap and told me only this weekend its on sale, if not he has Vic from world wide corals on the hook for it so by monday he's shipping it. Now it could be true but I doubt it, I just laughed in my head as I walked out. These stores try to hype up the sense of urgency to buy now cause its hot hot hot item.