When I saw your purple monster, I slap myself on the face!. Just saw it few days ago at my LFS. Time for a re-visit.
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My WT Mother of Pearl just got too big for my tank so I donated it to my LFS. Now I have room to move my Purple Monster which was stuck behind my large colony of JF Flame. I was able to get better pictures but to my dismay, when I was trying to photograph the purple monster, I realized I placed it under a brace. Oh well, this picture is still better than my others of it. I had to manhandle the colony to remove it from its old spot, so you can see some abrasions from grabbing it and pulling.
Purple Monster
My WT Mother of Pearl just got too big for my tank so I donated it to my LFS. Now I have room to move my Purple Monster which was stuck behind my large colony of JF Flame. I was able to get better pictures but to my dismay, when I was trying to photograph the purple monster, I realized I placed it under a brace. Oh well, this picture is still better than my others of it. I had to manhandle the colony to remove it from its old spot, so you can see some abrasions from grabbing it and pulling.
Purple Monster
Thanks to you, now i have to bang my head on the wall. Insane purple!
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Thank you for the kind words. Encouragement to share pictures is always appreciated greatly.
Its been so many years since I have had a Pearlberry in my tank, I don't really remember what it looks like. I got this frag a while ago and it is starting to spread its wings.
Pearlberry
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Nothing like a little chalice to add some color. Love these old ones, anything pinkish always seems to stand out so well.
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Nothing quite like it, one of the best blue corals that I have ever seen. Came in through Canada
Blueberry Wine
Blueberry Wine
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Some pretty polyps. Pictures taken with metal halides and t5's. It is way crazier under blue leds but I will save that picture for another day.
Z's Prize:
Another branch of Z's Prize
Z's Prize:
Another branch of Z's Prize
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More metal halide photos from this morning (that means no led supplements were on):
Reef Raft Canada Ultimate Orange Passion
I know the next photo looks photoshopped but its not. Corrected to 20k temp and exposure corrected. Metal halides and t5's, no leds. When you get into the body color it transitions from pink tips to orangish. But the bright yellow polyps are everywhere.
Z's Yellow eyed jawdropper
I have taken lots of pictures of the following coral but have had a hard time capturing how pretty it really is. Its called Z1. This photo is also with metal halides and t5's but no leds. You can see the rock work and coralline algae at the bottom of the picture for color reference. All of these pictures were taken this morning
Z1
A great reefing buddy shared this frag with me a while back. It is showing some great color potential. My friend always has the best colored coral of anyone I know. I am using a new macro lens and so its fun taking pictures. The field of depth is certainly shallow. The purple haze at the base of this frag is my rock work.
The next one has really tight branching. It has awesome color. Its called Z's Favorite. You can see some of my rock work in the right hand corner.
Z's Favorite
I have two colonies of the Pink Floyd. One in high light and one much lower down in the tank.
Reef Raft USA Pink Floyd
Reef Raft Canada Ultimate Orange Passion
I know the next photo looks photoshopped but its not. Corrected to 20k temp and exposure corrected. Metal halides and t5's, no leds. When you get into the body color it transitions from pink tips to orangish. But the bright yellow polyps are everywhere.
Z's Yellow eyed jawdropper
I have taken lots of pictures of the following coral but have had a hard time capturing how pretty it really is. Its called Z1. This photo is also with metal halides and t5's but no leds. You can see the rock work and coralline algae at the bottom of the picture for color reference. All of these pictures were taken this morning
Z1
A great reefing buddy shared this frag with me a while back. It is showing some great color potential. My friend always has the best colored coral of anyone I know. I am using a new macro lens and so its fun taking pictures. The field of depth is certainly shallow. The purple haze at the base of this frag is my rock work.
The next one has really tight branching. It has awesome color. Its called Z's Favorite. You can see some of my rock work in the right hand corner.
Z's Favorite
I have two colonies of the Pink Floyd. One in high light and one much lower down in the tank.
Reef Raft USA Pink Floyd
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Awesome stuff Mark! Glad the tank is doing so well, even with all of your vacations!!
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I really don't think the Pink Floyd matters a great deal in placement for its color. The one with the highlight may be growing faster but it is also getting more flow. Plus I think there may be many reasons why a coral may grow faster most of which I can't pinpoint.
Vacation time always presents a challenge. I have an ATO and I have someone feed the fish while I'm away. But there are so many potential problems from equipment failure to an endless list of possibilities. I was just away for the weekend visiting my daughter's family and my brand new RR USA frag was knocked over but I actually was able to retrieve it and re-glue it. My fish seem to enjoy knocking over frags or even mini-colonies from the rock work--its crazy.
Z's Blue Floyd under blue lights
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I seem to have accumulated a lot of these super fine branched corals with some sort of pink in them. This one started browning out a while ago while the rest of the tank was happy. Well color is returning and its looking pretty good.
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I need to remove this and trim. I placed the monti, Z's Dream Monti, on a D-D Epoxy custom disk molded to my rock scape. Unfortunately or fortunately, it is overgrowing the D-D epoxy and stinging the adjacent acro (far left) and starting to attach to my rock work directly. It really is pretty. Metal halide and t5 picture.
Z's Dream Monti
Z's Dream Monti
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Love that monti. My piece is starting to recover from falling upside down on the sand and laying there unnoticed for a few days. Hope to have those colors back soon.
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My frag of this is doing great! I kept it in lower 1/3 of tank it’s color seems richer but growth is prob slower who cares it’s happy, lol.I need to remove this and trim. I placed the monti, Z's Dream Monti, on a D-D Epoxy custom disk molded to my rock scape. Unfortunately or fortunately, it is overgrowing the D-D epoxy and stinging the adjacent acro (far left) and starting to attach to my rock work directly. It really is pretty. Metal halide and t5 picture.
Z's Dream Monti
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It is such a pretty monti
The color on the monti can be absolutely crazy. I toned down the photo in lightroom because it doesn't look real otherwise. You certainly are correct, the yellow is incredibly bright and the orange in the center of the body is unbelievable rich plus Blue polyps (blue polyps are pretty darn cool).
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