Sweet Reef Corals Eye Candy Thread

[Biff0rz]

Had to show this one off. I've been cooking this one for a while and it's finally hitting its stride on both color and growth. It did a LOT of encrusting before it decided to shoot some branches. But wow, these colors are super nice!
TCK SKYWALKER

And here's one we have been aquaculturing for almost 2 years. It is now a huge table like colony with some very attractive yellows and baby blues
SR YELLOW FEVER

I really like the tck skywalker, it's a great coral, nice pic. Mine is hard to photo due to a large colony of orange mushrooms near it lol

 

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I really like the tck skywalker, it's a great coral, nice pic. Mine is hard to photo due to a large colony of orange mushrooms near it lol

Those shrooms are definitely trying to steal the show!
That’s a nice size colony! Well done!

 

[Biff0rz]

Those shrooms are definitely trying to steal the show!
That’s a nice size colony! Well done!

Sigh, they do. I really need to cut them back again.

 

[hatfielj]

Your Skywalker colors look a lot better than the frags that TCK sells. Nice work!

 

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Your Skywalker colors look a lot better than the frags that TCK sells. Nice work!

Thank you my friend. I try to capture exactly what the eye sees under mostly royal blue with a touch of whites. This one was spot on to how it looks in my morning ramp up. I love the colors she’s showing!

 

[Quiverfull]

Sigh, they do. I really need to cut them back again.

Very nice colony for your sps. I have the same proliferating mushrooms. Look nice until they start to take over more real estate. How are your controlling them?

 

[Biff0rz]

Very nice colony for your sps. I have the same proliferating mushrooms. Look nice until they start to take over more real estate. How are your controlling them?

Thanks! Obviously trimming helps. I've found a few other methods-

-kalk paste the foot after a cut (super thick kalk, let it sit for 10m w flow off and it solidifies)
-kalk paste not as thick to melt a shroom that I cant easily cut then keep at it until its gone
-epoxy 'mats' with ca glue to hold it down - I do this when its in a tough spot for kalk - I'll irritate it so it deflates then glue/epoxy over it.
-best method is if I can pull the rock - I carefully toss denatured alcohol all over it, kills everything (even the bio on the rock) but it's worth it if it's small sections at a time.
-dont be a lazy reefer
-catch and remove any floaters

 

[Acrononomus]

Just read through this whole thread! Amazing! You have some really nice pieces I’m adding some to my list! Great work!

 

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Wow, thanks for checking things out!!

Just read through this whole thread! Amazing! You have some really nice pieces I’m adding some to my list! Great work!

 

[The Dude Abides]

Just read through this whole thread! Amazing! You have some really nice pieces I’m adding some to my list! Great work!

I have bought some pieces from Jesse. Top notch corals for sure.

 

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This is just a quick phone pic but I had to share. These 3 pieces went through my last crash about 20 months ago. Somehow I lost the name to the top left piece. I honestly thought it was just a damaged Ari’s and that I lost my original Bugatti frag. Well last week the “unknown” colony started shooting branches after all this time and it’s unmistakable now! TGC Bugatti baby

So happy to have this one in the collection again!!

 

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I just had to share....
The frag I cut a few weeks ago even has crazy good colors! I am so impressed with this one!
TCK Skywalker

 

[hatfielj]

Gorgeous! Those are my favorite color combos all rolled into one:)

 

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Gorgeous! Those are my favorite color combos all rolled into one:)

It really is one of my favorites. And that little frag is healing so fast!