My sps journey

[sam.veilleux30]

Hi, i will post some pics of my sps to document their health and growth.
Walt Disney may 2018

August 2018 first pic with flash

Orange passion

Same coral after some troubles

 

[bubbaque]

Nicely colored and look healthy. Nice job!

 

[yosolo]

Hard to grow...these are slow grower.

 

[sam.veilleux30]

Hard to grow...these are slow grower.

Well... the wd has double it's size, so far so good.
The op had some problems, a floating polyp from my hammer!!! settled on it leaving a huge dead spot.
I cut the dead part to avoid infection and afterward i had to remove the frag from is plug in order to treat for aefw.

 

[sam.veilleux30]

Nicely colored and look healthy. Nice job!

Thanks

 

[sam.veilleux30]

Red dragon bought sept 2017

Red dragon (more pink than red) last week

 

[sam.veilleux30]

Sold as cherry blossom, bought at the same time than the wd.
Not sure how it will turn out, no pe, no encrusting in three months.

 

[sam.veilleux30]

Red planet, frag bought in 2014 or 2015

The thing is getting huge.

From left to right: a little piece of rainbow monti, ssc from fragbox, an other "cherry blossom", pink floyd and miyagi tort.

 

[sam.veilleux30]

Same corals today,
Rainbow monti and myagi

Pink floyd, almost no growth and turning more green than yellow
(sorry for the bad pic, i have a difficult time to get a proper focus on it)

Acropora hyacinthus bought at the same time than the red planet (coralmaster).
First pic today, second last year. I had to prune heavily because of aefw, manage to save three healty pieces from the colony.

 

[sam.veilleux30]

Cherry blossom (the one from fragbox) this piece is actually turning good with more yellow than green. There was some growth but i broke the new part when i did my last "rescape".

Ssc today

 

[SneakyTortuga]

looks to me like you have a tank FULL of acros!!!! nice corals so far but im sure theirs tons more to come

 

[sam.veilleux30]

Pink cadillac from fragbox bought last spring.
When i received the package the tip of the frag was missing some flesh so i decided to cut it in case it was a case of rtn and glue the small part away from the main frag. It turn out ok and i have 2 small pieces of this coral now, one encrusting the other recovering from pruning and dipping because of aefw.

 

[sam.veilleux30]

looks to me like you have a tank FULL of acros!!!! nice corals so far but im sure theirs tons more to come

Thanks!
I keep some acros for a few years now (blue tort, red planet hyacintus and no name green) but the more colorful pieces are quite new.

 

[29bonsaireef]

WOW.. the growth of the Rainbow monti and Miyagi tort are shocking compared to the PF and Cherry Blossom. Nice work.

 

[yosolo]

Looks to have good color and great growth..

 

[Bj’s Reef]

Nice job, I wish my corals would grow like yours.

 

[sam.veilleux30]

WOW.. the growth of the Rainbow monti and Miyagi tort are shocking compared to the PF and Cherry Blossom. Nice work.

Thanks, that's true, the rainbow need to be kept in check (in part by the miyagi Edit not so true, the rainbow is now the stronger. Welcome epoxy!) or it will cover too much real estate.
For the miyagi this is my fastest growing acro, i'm starting to sell some frags to my lfs.

 

[sam.veilleux30]

Looks to have good color and great growth..

Thanks

 

[sam.veilleux30]

Nice job, I wish my corals would grow like yours.

Thanks, when you get a new frag it usually take some time before you get some growth. For example my red planet stayed almost the same size for one year.

 

[sam.veilleux30]

Here is a pic of my reef in 2015
The red planet is actually green and quite small

Just over the tail of the yellow tang.