JCOLE's ACRO Dominant Build

[JCOLE]

Pengs Heart Of The Ocean

 

[JCOLE]

BC RC Poison Envy - Starting to see the orange center coming out. Hope this one goes back to it's original glory.

 

[ScottB]

RIP Bloodsickle! - I took these pictures the day before it STN'd on me. Hopefully, the frags pull through and I can grow this one out again. Polyps look like little tangerine slices to me.

Cool/interesting growth rings around the growth tips.

 

[JCOLE]

Cool/interesting growth rings around the growth tips.

I always thought it was unique. Fat polyps and really weird growth. It was deep red under my LEDs and paled out after switching to T5s. It has started to color back up over the last month. Sucks to see it go but now I have more room for other pieces.

 

[drawman]

RIP Bloodsickle! - I took these pictures the day before it STN'd on me. Hopefully, the frags pull through and I can grow this one out again. Polyps look like little tangerine slices to me.

Woah are the corallites/polyps supposed to look like that? I had some SPS "bubbling" years ago in a previous tank and some acros took on a similar weird appearance.

 

[JCOLE]

Woah are the corallites/polyps supposed to look like that? I had some SPS "bubbling" years ago in a previous tank and some acros took on a similar weird appearance.

I don't know if they are supposed to be like that naturally. They have always sort of looked like that though. My WD has puffy polyps as well so I don't know if it's the corals themselves or something in the tank. Maybe it's the Reef Roids getting them all swoll up.

 

[DivingTheWorld]

Pengs Heart Of The Ocean

Josh, tell me your secret on this one. Mine sucks! I will admit I’ve been struggling to find a high PAR spot for it. But mine is basically light gray at this point. What PAR do you have yours in?

 

[JCOLE]

Josh, tell me your secret on this one. Mine sucks! I will admit I’ve been struggling to find a high PAR spot for it. But mine is basically light gray at this point. What PAR do you have yours in?

Hey Mike! I wish I had a secret besides stick it and pray!

This piece came in incredibly healthy and took off from the start and I think that helped a lot. It is up top and I believe it is getting around 400 PAR. I need to take some new readings. I will take some tonight and let you know where it's at.

This was 1.5 months ago. It seems to really like this spot.

 

[BranchingHammer]

Hey @JCOLE,
What epoxy are you using to mount frags?
Thanks!

 

[JCOLE]

Hey @JCOLE,
What epoxy are you using to mount frags?
Thanks!

Just the regular Instant Ocean sticks. Cheap and does the job well. I usually get 6 sticks at a time.

 

[BranchingHammer]

Thanks @JCOLE!

 

[JCOLE]

It's one of those days!!

 

[drawman]

It's one of those days!!

Glad to see it isn't whole blood.

 

[JCOLE]

Glad to see it isn't whole blood.

Well atleast one of them wasnt

LOL. I didn't notice that when I recieved it. Now I hope it wasnt used for that before I got it.........

 

[JCOLE]

Unpacked and dipped 24 corals today. Towards the end I was telling myself "I think I might have recieved too many in." Then I got worried because I was channeling my Wife at that point.

Will try and get better individual pictures tomorrow.

BC Battlestag
UC Blue Tort
PC Rainbow
$500 Dollar Ultimate Efflo
Foxflame
BC Blue Polyp Granulosa
BC Bubblebath Unicorn
Pengs Purple Passion Granulosa
Vivid's Rainbow
ORA Pearlberry
BC Shortcake
Easter Egg
PB Stag
Orange Polyp Tort
Sunny D
Big E Exteme Shortcake
BC Random Red
RR The Vihn
Firetruck
Blue Cardinal
Blueberry Stag
ASD Rainbow Milli
Incredible Hulk Stag
Spiral Cap

 

[JCOLE]

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[BranchingHammer]

Pssst, @JCOLE, there might be an opening in the BC Bonfire grow out contest if you’re interested... Email Adam or PM me to claim your spot.

 

[ScottB]

Unpacked and dipped 24 corals today. Towards the end I was telling myself "I think I might have recieved too many in." Then I got worried because I was channeling my Wife at that point.

Will try and get better individual pictures tomorrow.

BC Battlestag
UC Blue Tort
PC Rainbow
$500 Dollar Ultimate Efflo
Foxflame
BC Blue Polyp Granulosa
BC Bubblebath Unicorn
Pengs Purple Passion Granulosa
Vivid's Rainbow
ORA Pearlberry
BC Shortcake
Easter Egg
PB Stag
Orange Polyp Tort
Sunny D
Big E Exteme Shortcake
BC Random Red
RR The Vihn
Firetruck
Blue Cardinal
Blueberry Stag
ASD Rainbow Milli
Incredible Hulk Stag
Spiral Cap

Quite the haul!

Have fun.

 

[JCOLE]

Going through my list of SPS and it is starting to feel like I am on track to get my tank back. Even though I lost half of my pieces 4 months ago, I feel like the tank is going to be at its best by end of this year. Most of these are still small frags but they are looking very promising.

$500 Dollar Ultimate Efflo
ASD Milli
Bali Green Slimer
BC “therman’s rainbow” nasuta
BC Aquatic man table
BC Battlejuice
BC Battlestag
BC Blue Polyp Granulosa
BC Bohemia
BC Bonfire table
BC Brain Candy Table
BC Bubblebath Unicorn
BC Dales Purple Unknown
BC Firecracker Table
BC Frankenberry
BC Heart and Soul
BC Honeycomb
BC Lemon peel
BC Pearly Cadaver
BC Peril Betty
BC Poison Envy
BC Rainbow Brite
BC Rainbow Jewel
BC Rainbow-Melon Teni
BC Rainbows Army
BC Reef Ready Grape Juice
BC Sanjay's Leprechauns beard
BC Secale
BC Sex Feast
BC Shades of fall
BC Sunset Milli
Big-E Xtreme Shortcake
Blue Cardinal
Blueberry Stag
Carolina Blue Tort
CB Maleficent
CC Dark Knight
Copps Calacali Stag
Easter Egg
Firetruck
Foxflame
Greg Carroll Acroberry
Greg Carroll Ultimate efflo
JC BloodSickle Milli
JC Blood Raven
JF Fox Flame
JF Stag
JF Unknown Coral
JKR Rainbow
Miyagi Tort
ORA Cliff's Acro
ORA Pearlberry
Oregon Tort
Palmers Blue Milli
PB Stag
PC Rainbow
Peng's HOTO
Pengs Purple Passion Granulosa
RR Pink Cadillac
RR Pink Floyd
RR The Vihn
Spiral Monti Cap
TGC Cherrybomb
TSA Bill Murray
TSA Princess Peach
TSA Spiro the Dragon
Tyree Pinky the bear
UC Blue Tort
UC Blueberry Shortcake
UC Strawberry Shortcake
UFreefer Snowy D
UFreefer Orange Polyp'd Tort
Unknown Bushy Acro
Unknown Green Stag
Vivid's Confetti
Vivid's Rainbow Delight
Walt Disney
WhiteTip Stag

 

[ScottB]

Going through my list of SPS and it is starting to feel like I am on track to get my tank back. Even though I lost half of my pieces 4 months ago, I feel like the tank is going to be at its best by end of this year. Most of these are still small frags but they are looking very promising.

$500 Dollar Ultimate Efflo
ASD Milli
Bali Green Slimer
BC “therman’s rainbow” nasuta
BC Aquatic man table
BC Battlejuice
BC Battlestag
BC Blue Polyp Granulosa
BC Bohemia
BC Bonfire table
BC Brain Candy Table
BC Bubblebath Unicorn
BC Dales Purple Unknown
BC Firecracker Table
BC Frankenberry
BC Heart and Soul
BC Honeycomb
BC Lemon peel
BC Pearly Cadaver
BC Peril Betty
BC Poison Envy
BC Rainbow Brite
BC Rainbow Jewel
BC Rainbow-Melon Teni
BC Rainbows Army
BC Reef Ready Grape Juice
BC Sanjay's Leprechauns beard
BC Secale
BC Sex Feast
BC Shades of fall
BC Sunset Milli
Big-E Xtreme Shortcake
Blue Cardinal
Blueberry Stag
Carolina Blue Tort
CB Maleficent
CC Dark Knight
Copps Calacali Stag
Easter Egg
Firetruck
Foxflame
Greg Carroll Acroberry
Greg Carroll Ultimate efflo
JC BloodSickle Milli
JC Blood Raven
JF Fox Flame
JF Stag
JF Unknown Coral
JKR Rainbow
Miyagi Tort
ORA Cliff's Acro
ORA Pearlberry
Oregon Tort
Palmers Blue Milli
PB Stag
PC Rainbow
Peng's HOTO
Pengs Purple Passion Granulosa
RR Pink Cadillac
RR Pink Floyd
RR The Vihn
Spiral Monti Cap
TGC Cherrybomb
TSA Bill Murray
TSA Princess Peach
TSA Spiro the Dragon
Tyree Pinky the bear
UC Blue Tort
UC Blueberry Shortcake
UC Strawberry Shortcake
UFreefer Snowy D
UFreefer Orange Polyp'd Tort
Unknown Bushy Acro
Unknown Green Stag
Vivid's Confetti
Vivid's Rainbow Delight
Walt Disney
WhiteTip Stag

How on God's blue earth do you possibly keep track of who is who? Spill it for us.

Most of my older stuff is now called things like:

Red Milli
Red acro
Blue Milli
Blue smooth acro
Hairy green thing
Orange and red acro with green stuff
So forth and so on...