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

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

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!

 

[Sweet Reef Corals]

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