pick this up today

[sr71]

LMK what you guys thiink

 

[iani]

Nice. Just watch out for it bleaching. Those black and red chalices hate light. They bleach REALLY easily.

 

[oceaninabox]

Looks exactly like my molten lava chalice and it LOVES high light. im running mine under 400 watt 20k MH XM bulbs.

http://www.oceaninabox.com/servlet/the-81/Chalice-Molten-Lava/Detail

Perry-OIAB

 

[sr71]

Perry, those are nice, yours have more red. Do you have a pic of the colony?

Ok folks I am still confuse, should I place it in high or low light?

 

[iani]

Trust me I have more than one type of these chalices. For me none of them like high light. Jeremy (tuberider) who has the original darth maul chalice says the same thing.

Oceaninabox may just have a weird one. Too me your chalice looks more like one I have than the one he has.

 

[sr71]

ianiwane they sure looks alike. Thanks for the tip I'll keep it in low light.

Seng

 

[ReefKid15]

how much did it cost its a beast..

 

[Linda Lee]

I've always admired the chalices, but thought my lights would not be sufficent. I'll have to give one of these a try. Truly gorgeous.

 

[Russellaqua]

Chalices are great low light corals. In nature they are found at greater depths than many other corals. In order to collect enough light they have grown a plating form to catch as much of the limited light there is at those depths.

 

[sr71]

how much did it cost its a beast..

The grand total was an are and a leg. The arm was cost of gas driving to the LFS and the leg was for the chalice. :)